What’s next — the missile launch codes? While the record industry has targeted the universities and student populations in their battle against piracy, P2P use has enjoyed continued success in the business world with the most recent example being the discovery of the blue prints for Marine One, President Obama’s helicopter being found “in-the-wild”. This [...]
ANALYSIS – In recent months, new online file transfer and storage applications have popped up with increasing frequency and the latest, Docstoc makes concerted efforts to simplify the upload process by installing an applet on your desktop. Docstoc differentiates itself by claiming that they want to be the Youtube of professional documents – a place [...]
ANALYSIS – Music and video are not the only things you can find on P2P networks. Sure, everyone has heard about the massive loss of employee data caused by P2P usage but what about the less publicized loss of personal documents, billing information, and corporate IP? In this InformationWeek article, the author tests P2P networks [...]