A new report released by UK-based research firm Consumer Focus on Monday showed that millions of iPod, MP3, and computer users are unaware of violations they are committing when they “format shift” compact disk contents into their music players.
According to the report, at least 17 percent of adult users were not aware of the violations [...]

A 25-year-old law firm computer technician was arrested by the News Jersey State Police after allegedly hacking into GoDaddy.com and stealing two domain accounts in peer-to-peer file-sharing before selling the rights to National Basketball Association player Mark Madsen.
Jersey Police identified the suspect was Daniel Gonclaves, a computer technician, who was accused of hacking into the [...]

A proposed bill passed by New York Representative Edolphus Towns banning the use of peer-to-peer file-sharing or P2P networks on government offices and other networks that has contracts with the government has earner both positive and negative reactions.
Towns made the announcement following a hearing at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee where its members [...]

A recent report told that highly sensitive and top secret government documents were leaked to peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, prompting the House Government Oversight & Government Reform Committee to conduct an emergency meeting to discuss the growing problem of inadvertent file-sharing channeled through P2P websites.
The documents, dated July 2009, were allegedly used by the US [...]

Recent reports showed that peer-to-peer lending investment grew to about $500 million in second quarter of 2009, bypassing even loan packages offered by banks and credit card companies.
Reports also told that investment through P2P has given consumers the confidence they lost during major job cuts amid recession. In the said reports, people made up to [...]