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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A glitch this week that locked millions of people out of the most popular file-trading network since Napster's fall is raising new questions about the future of the Net's free-music bonanza. Beginning ...

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 ...