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We all agree piracy is bad. But you know what's even worse? Streaming.

The RIAA's and other media companies' anti-piracy lawsuits aren't about making a profit per se; they're about scaring you back into buying DVDs and CDs.

Several companies being investigated by the FTC for inadvertently exposing customer and employee data on peer-to-peer networks, have been asked by the agency to submit extensive information on their data-collection, usage and protection practices.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has notified hundreds of US businesses that their sensitive data is circulating freely on peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks for all to see. While no company wants to have confidential information exposed to unauthorized users on the Web, many businesses, depending on the nature of the data being exposed, also fall under legal compliance mandates to safeguard the data.

People send their most sensitive personal information out over P2P networks, and the bad guys are watching.

Opera Software today released the beta of Opera Unite, a platform for authoring peer-to-peer (P2P) and Web server-based applications that it believes will reinvent the Web.

In response to some incidents in which peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing caused sensitive information to show up on computers that it shouldn't be on, Congress reasonably decided to hold hearings in anticipation of actions it might take that would prevent future compromises. Unfortunately, one of the actions that Congress has taken is to consider passage of the most useless law imaginable.

Google has restored The Pirate Bay to its search engine index after briefly removing it last week following a copyright infringement complaint.

InTown Suites, a low-cost extended-stay living chain, had a problem with users of file sharing applications who were consuming all of its network bandwidth. Here’s how they solved the problem.

The Business Software Alliance monitors Web sites for illegal software files and torrents. Egregious cases, and those involving organized crime, may be prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Swedish court of appeals will look into allegations that the judge who handled a case involving the Pirate Bay file sharing service had a conflict interest, the court said on Wednesday.