A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled on Friday that two well-known file-sharing services are not responsible for illegal copying of movies and music by the services’ users. The entertainment industry, ...

A poll of attitudes on and perceptions about file sharing, released on Monday by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, indicates that most people believe that file sharing is stealing. But a ...

LOS ANGELES Bram Cohen didn t set out to upset Hollywood movie studios. But his innovative online file-sharing software, BitTorrent, has grown into a piracy problem the film industry is struggling to ...

University sophomore "Tom" may not look like a criminal. In the eyes of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), however, he -- like thousands of other college students -- is a wanted man ...

Next week, incoming students at UC Berkeley will receive more than just campus maps and classroom tours: They'll learn about the perils of sharing digital music and movies files online. Specifically ...

WASHINGTON — Regulating music and movie-sharing programs on the Internet could create a chilling effect on innovation, some Supreme Court justices said today in a case that could shape the commercial ...

UC Berkeley is part of an initiative that plans to make online file storage and management available to students, faculty and staff, the campus announced Tuesday. As part of a two-year agreement ...

While Election 2004 is not going to be decided in the nation’s courts, file sharing—another highly contested issue dear to students’ hearts—might be. Last month, the recording and film industries ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- EDonkey, a popular software program for sharing video and other large files over the Internet, now accounts for the biggest slice of online file-sharing, according to a study ...

A Web site owner who deceptively claimed that users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing programs who joined his Web site would be able to transfer copyrighted materials without violating the law has ...

PEER-TO-PEER file swapping networks have been growing in popularity ever since Napster emerged, with Morpheus, Gnutella, and Kazaa being the more popular options in use today. In addition to the ...