When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet traffic, despite having grown at a torrid pace for years, will grow ...

Every few years, someone predicts the imminent collapse of the Internet. Bob Metcalfe–Ethernet inventor, 3Com founder, and Technology Review patron–famously said at a 1995 Web conference that he would ...

P2P apps are popular around the globe, even in regions where Internet access speeds are low. New research from German deep packet inspection gear maker ipoque shows that in places like Eastern Europe, ...

The growth of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications will mean a major transformation for the Internet, and a decline in the relative importance of centralised Web applications. By 2004, most large ...

I have been reading a recent report by the EBU on peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet file delivery. While broadcast (one-to-many distribution) from a transmitter has a fixed cost, no matter how many ...

Imagine buying an internet-enabled surveillance camera, network attached storage device, or home automation gizmo, only to find that it secretly and constantly phones home to a vast peer-to-peer (P2P) ...

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The number of consumers using peer-to-peer (P2P) services to download music declined 17 percent between 2011 and 2012. As a result, the volume of illegally downloaded music files from P2P services ...

Impervious Technologies Inc. is pleased to confirm the close of their seed financing round, with participation from Bitcoin and privacy-focused investors including CoinShares, NYDIG, Trammell Venture ...

Although the Internet is very much a client/server network, there are file-sharing technologies that enable users to create a P2P environment over the public Internet. The one that got the most ...