Arguably, the best technology today for distributing a focused archive of content to a widespread audience is BitTorrent, often simply called "torrent." Unlike many other P2P technologies, torrents do ...

New file-swapping applications are bridging formerly separate networks, promising to improve the efficiency of peer-to-peer searches and sharpen competition among rival software developers. On ...

Peer-to-peer networking has caused a dramatic increase in Internet traffic. Today, the major P2P user is the consumer, and the major application is media file sharing. Music, movies and the like now ...

As Comcast’s reversal this week shows, traffic-management practices that target individual protocols are increasingly going out of fashion. One month after Comcast aggressively defended its targeted ...