In his essay Siva Vaidhyanathan works hard to establish the cultural and political significance of the growing number of peer-to-peer (P2P) networking tools that have come into general use on the ...

Sweden could be considered the world's unofficial home of internet piracy largely thanks to the work of Pirate Bay, which claims to be the largest global tracker of BitTorrent files. That doesn't mean ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The music piracy debate is dividing artists, labels and the music industry as a whole. Some ...

The peer-to-peer services are locked in a battle with music labels over the millions of songs traded online every day. The Recording Industry Association of America has resorted to the law courts to ...

In what could become an escalation in the war against peer-to-peer networks, the highest ranking law enforcement officers in the individual states are preparing to weigh in on the debate over the… By ...

Civil-liberties groups and some copyright lawyers cried foul yesterday (July 25) as Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) introduced legislation that would remove liability from copyright holders that employ… ...

File-sharing is booming, with people downloading millions of files despite efforts by the entertainment industry to stop the practice, say experts. Films and other files larger than 100MB are becoming ...

Lurking deep inside the crypto froth, hidden between NFTs for mammoth tusks, virtual mega-yachts in the metaverse, and Bitcoin, there is a technology trend so transformative it’s going to usher in the ...