"Frontier knew that its subscribers were using its high-speed network to illegally download and distribute plaintiffs' sound recordings," UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment and other record companies alle ...

Nearby Share shows users a list of devices nearby. Once the device is selected, the recipient will receive an alert to accept or decline the file. ...

BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti lays out a perceptive explanation of Internet Past, Present and Future. It's a reasonably concise summing up, that starts with addressing fake news. ...

Hollywood insiders are leaking movies to file-sharing sites, a new lawsuit brought by Warner Bros. suggests. Warner Bros. alleges that the talent agency Innovative Artists uploaded DVD screeners and oth ...

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom will relaunch the cyberlocker service next year. The FBI shut down the first version of Megaupload in 2012. ...

Microsoft Excel is one of the most common tools that marketers rely on for sorting and analyzing data, and although exporting and saving would seem to be basic skills th ...

Britain remains a hotbed of illegal file-sharing, with one in five Internet users downloading movies and music without paying, according to a report from the government's Intellectual Property Office. T ...

Google is demanding that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood turn over information about "Project Goliath" -- a Hollywood-backed initiative that reportedly involves enlisting state law enforcement officials in the fig ...

It makes perfect sense that photos saved on floppy disks once inserted into a hard drive would one day become non-readable as the technology becomes obsolete. I guess not ...

The file-sharing network BitTorrent wants Sony to release "The Interview," the movie about two producers who the CIA recruits to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on their trip ...

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Facebook said Tuesday it made an update to the News Feed algorithm that will reduce the number of text posts shown from business pages, and more text posts being sho ...

According to a recent Ipsos online study, 45% of U.S. adults feel that they have little (33%) or no (12%) control over the personal information companies gather while they a ...

The Swedish file sharing site Pirate Bay has moved its server infrastructure to the cloud in an attempt to avoid raids that could knockit offline. Blamed for supporting illegal file-sharin ...

According to a recent study by Intel Corporation, conducted by Ipsos, across the globe people share information online for two main reasons: connection and expression. The majority of adults a ...

According to the e-tailing group and MyBuys, in a joint online survey, consumers are more comfortable sharing data with retailers than they are with social networks, especially if it enhanc ...

According to the Curata 2012 Content Curation Adoption Survey, curation has become mainstream, with the majority of marketers surveyed curating content. Marketers are sharing relevant content with new prospects ...

Secure social login can be used to speed up registration on sites across the web, says the report. According to an analysis by Janrain of online users across 365,000 websit ...

A Senate panel just passed a bill giving U.S. agencies and officials new powers to battle foreign websites that sell counterfeit goods, pirated music, movies and books. "The bill, whi ...

A new version of a proposed anti-counterfeiting treaty no longer contains some of the Web-related provisions that had alarmed a broad coalition of watchdogs. ...

A federal judge has okayed independent filmmakers' attempts to unmask thousands of Web users who allegedly downloaded movies from peer-to-peer networks. The judge reasoned that Web users have ...

WEHCO Media, which owns 15 newspapers including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Chattanooga Times Free Press, reportedly has become the second client of copyright enforcement outfit Righthaven. ...

In February, the Federal Trade Commission warned a host of businesses, local governments and schools that sensitive data about their employees and customers had ended up on on file-sharing network ...

A coalition of law professors and other attorneys are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether people who share music over peer-to-peer networks can be considered "innocent infringers." ...

In a ruling that could put a crimp in content owners' attempts to convince downloaders to settle lawsuits, a federal judge in Boston has said it's unconstitutional to require ...

Having persuaded U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood that LimeWire infringed copyright, the record industry is now asking her to shut down the peer-to-peer network and freeze its assets, ...

A peer-to-peer user who downloaded 37 tracks on Kazaa as a teen is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that she can be considered an "innocent infringer." ...

People might use RapidShare to share copyrighted material, but the company is no Napster. That's according to U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Huff, who declined to issue an injunction again ...

A federal judge in California has issued a permanent injunction prohibiting BitTorrent search engine isoHunt and its founder, Gary Fung, from knowingly encouraging users to share pirated material. The orde ...

Content owners, rejoice! Or, at least for the moment. Some top Hollywood studios just won an injunction against Pirate Bay's bandwidth provider CB3ROB via a court in Hamburg. The injuncti ...