Gene Kan, one of the key programmers behind the popular file-sharing technology known as Gnutella, has died in an apparent suicide, officials said Tuesday. He was 25. San Mateo County Coroner ...

Last September, the loose affiliation of programmers who monitor the Gnutella file-trading network noticed something strange. The network, a popular hub for MP3 traders, seemed to be suffering a kind ...

A bitter dispute between file-sharing companies FastTrack and Morpheus did more than just clog up file-trading networks over the past week; it raised questions about the viability of decentralized ...

Gene Kan, one of the key programmers behind the popular file-sharing technology known as Gnutella, has died of a gunshot to the head in an apparent suicide, officials said yesterday. He was 25. A ...

Several readers have written in about the latest ripple in the peer-to-peer world. Users of the file-sharing application Morpheus have been unable to connect to the FastTrack P2P network, which is ...

A glitch this week that locked millions of people out of the most popular file-trading network since Napster's fall is raising new questions about the future of the Net's free-music bonanza. Beginning ...

Gene Kan, one of the pioneering developers of the file-sharing technology Gnutella, which took music-swapping beyond the realm of Napster, died June 29 at age 25 as a result of an accident, his ...