McLEAN, Va. -- One of the world's most popular file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company officials were accused of facilitating millions of illegal downloads of ...

The big picture: Zippyshare was one of the most popular file-sharing websites in the early years of the twentieth century, before streaming services like Netflix and Spotify reduced its relevance.

A judge in the northern town of Bergamo, Italy, has ordered Italian ISPs to block access to the Swedish file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay in a crackdown on the illegal sharing of copyright material ...

It appears that we’re living in a post-Megaupload era. Shortly after the site was taken down by authorities and the ensuing drama of Kim “Dotcom” Schmitz played out before our eyes, torrent site ...

The national debate over file-sharing and online music theft hit the University personally this past term when the Recording Industry Association of America — a trade group representing major record ...

The Washington Post published an alarming story today about the risk to company computer networks from employees who visit file sharing sites to acquire music, software or videos for personal use.

As ISPs constrict file-sharing services such as BitTorrent, new data shows that users are moving to file-hosting Web sites to avoid slow downloads. RapidShare and MegaUpload are among the most used ...

MyMiniFactory has announced the surprise acquisition of the world’s oldest and largest 3D printing file-sharing site, Thingiverse. Originally launched in 2008 by MakerBot, Thingiverse boasts over 8 ...

STOCKHOLM – Four men linked to popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay were convicted Friday of breaking Sweden’s copyright law by helping millions of users freely download music, movies and computer ...

It's hard to argue the difference between a site like that and a search engine. Such a site is simply a curated batch of results while Google accepts money to be shown higher in their search results.

File-sharing site Zippyshare has announced they are shutting down the site by the end of March 2023 after announcing they can no longer afford to keep the service running. Zippyshare is a free ...