Given all the high-profile changes to the Napster music-sharing service, many users are looking for replacements. And there are plenty of contenders. Unfortunately, Napster is the only service out ...

Recent findings indicate that Internet peer-to-peer file sharing programs such as Gnutella and Kazaa, though incredible popular, may not be as efficient or well-designed as initially believed.

A so-called proof-of-concept worm started spreading over the weekend among the PCs of people using the peer-to-peer file-swapping protocol known as Gnutella. The computer worm was likely created to ...

Gene Kan, one of the key programmers behind the popular file-sharing technology known as Gnutella, has died in an apparent suicide, officials said Tuesday. He was 25. San Mateo County Coroner ...

The Gnutella file-sharing system is growing faster than was believed technically possible, thanks to work by programmers, suggesting the software may become a permanent part of the Internet landscape ...

A bitter dispute between file-sharing companies FastTrack and Morpheus did more than just clog up file-trading networks over the past week; it raised questions about the viability of decentralized ...

Last September, the loose affiliation of programmers who monitor the Gnutella file-trading network noticed something strange. The network, a popular hub for MP3 traders, seemed to be suffering a kind ...

Several readers have written in about the latest ripple in the peer-to-peer world. Users of the file-sharing application Morpheus have been unable to connect to the FastTrack P2P network, which is ...