College student Shawn Fanning launched the Napster peer-to-peer file-sharing service twenty years ago, in June of 1999, from his dorm room at Northeastern University. Napster radically changed the ...

In brief: Ownership of Napster is changing hands once again. The company, which started life as a peer-to-peer file sharing service more than 25 years ago, is being purchased by Infinite Reality for ...

Cable TV giant and Internet service provider Comcast Corp. has been accused of blocking — or at least throttling — traffic from subscribers trying to share files through the popular BitTorrent peer-to ...