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Few phenomena have been so widely discussed yet remain so puzzling as the world of Bitcoins.

Paying back that 20 dollars your buddy spotted you last night will soon be as easy as sending an email.

With confidence in banks reaching an all time low in the United States and abroad, many are seeking an alternative to the age old banking system.

Would you back the nation's graduates to produce a return on your money? A new firm is offering to pay healthy rates of interest if you are willing to risk your money to fund loans direct to graduates.

PROS AND CONS: At times, information-sharing systems have been used to engage in illegal activities such as copyright infringement, child exploitation and obscenity, and computer hacking Peer-to-peer networks allow internet users to link their computers with other computers around the world.

HACKETTSTOWN - A registered sex offender employed at a law office in Paterson, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Newark on May 17 for allegedly possessing and distributing images of child sex abuse over the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

While looking through the programme of the ongoing Sight and Sound Festival , i found out about The Pirate Cinema , an installation that makes use of a data interception software of the same name to reveal in real time the hidden activity and the geography of peer-to-peer file sharing but also the aesthetic dimension of P2P architectures.

Deep packet inspection, or DPI, is a form of computer network packet filtering that examines the data part of a packet as it passes an inspection point, searching for defined criteria to decide what, if any, action should be taken by the network on that packet.

Big Daddy Kane, 9th Wonder, Needlz, Benzino, Statik Selektah and Adrian Younge weigh in on the role of technology in Hip Hop.

A federal judge has dismissed a movie company's Internet piracy complaint against 34 Oregonians, saying the company was unfairly using the court's subpoena power in a "reverse class-action suit" to save on legal expenses and possibly to intimidate defendants into paying thousands of dollars for viewing a movie that can be bought or rented for less ... (more)

A new study, believed to be the first ever of its size, has determined that game piracy is widespread but not to the extent that the industry claims.

An Ossining man has been charged with possessing and distributing more than 50 child pornography photos and videos on his home computer, federal prosecutors said.

A Fort Drum man admitted Monday in federal court that he possessed pornographic images of children he obtained over the Internet.

"We've taken another pedophile off the streets. He is now on his way to prison," U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today in the wake of a Kanawha County man's federal sentencing on child pornography charges.

Voltage Pictures LLC, of Los Angeles, sought up to $180,000 in damages from each of the defendants accused of downloading the 2012 movie using peer-to-peer technology such as BitTorrent.

CZDC is a standard peer-to-peer file exchange tool that uses the Direct Connect protocol in order to facilitate file sharing over the Internet, while also allowing users to initiate conversations within the accessed hubs.

United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced Monday that Ray Hatton III, 30, of Lafayette, pleaded guilty Tuesday before U. S. District Judge Richard T. Haik, to possessing child pornography involving some images of infants.

Today, RelayRides, the nation's largest peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace, announced the acquisition of peer-to-peer car sharing platform Wheelz.

Steve O'Hear is probably best known as a technology journalist, currently at TechCrunch where he focuses mainly on European startups, companies and products.

Deric D. Davin, 34, was sentenced to 121 months after pleading guilty to one count of distributing child porn, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom's office said.