Stories about: Gnutella

The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems released a study Thursday showing that Cox Communications and Comcast have been blocking BitTorrent transfers within the United States at both peak and non-peak hours.

LimeWire, a grizzled veteran of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing scene, remains the most popular software for exchanging music, video and software -- much of it pirated -- through the Internet, according to a study released Wednesday.

Comcast announced this week that it has decided to stop targeting such P2P protocols as BitTorrent when managing network traffic.

Critics of the US ISP Comcast aren't backing down after the company defended its traffic management practices in a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing last week by asserting that its tactics fall well within the bounds of reasonable network management practices.

It's not just the Recording Industry Association of America that people need to worry about when downloading music from P2P networks.

Sun Microsystems Inc. says its Jxta technology for peer-to-peer computing is gathering steam and may soon make its way into some of its own products.

For several years, one of the hottest topics in ebusiness has been what will happen with online music.

A Dutch company, hoping to capitalize on a year-old Dutch court ruling that legitimized file-swapping services in the Netherlands, plans to offer software and a home base to file-sharing service providers. However, experts wonder if the Netherlands is really a file-sharing haven.

Antivirus firm Central Command on Wednesday released the findings of its annual survey, which showed peer-to-peer file-sharing sites are becoming virus writers' latest target.

The size of Kazaa's peer-to-peer file sharing network ballooned by nearly 70 percent over the last two months, while rival file-swapping system Morpheus, which has recently undergone a platform change, has experienced a precipitous decline, Redshift Research reported Wednesday.

Hoping to slough off legitimacy concerns and make partners of its opponents, StreamCast Networks, the company behind the popular peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software Morpheus, said Thursday that it plans to begin distributing music protected by its own digital rights management (DRM) technology.