The RIAA has won its case against Usenet.com after accusing the company of facilitating direct, contributory, and vicarious infringement of copyright.

Notorious BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay is set to launch a virtual private network service next week which will offer completely anonymous data transit.

Cox Communications - the second largest ISP in the US - is to stop its policy of blocking P2P traffic outright in favour of a system of prioritisation.

As the credit crunch bites, file sharing giant BitTorrent has made some cost-cutting measures including laying off half of its staff and replacing its CEO.

A pre-alpha, though largely functional, copy of µTorrent for Mac OS X - based on the popular Windows software - has been leaked, ironically via BitTorrent.

Figures from pro-filesharing site TorrentFreak show large numbers of individuals downloading copies of popular TV shows - even when there's a legitimate, free version.

Figures released by network equipment vendor Sandvine yesterday show peer-to-peer networking accounting for almost half of overall US Internet traffic.

Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN is to drag BitTorrent search engine Mininova through the legal system over its refusal to implement a filtering system to prevent the sharing of copyright material.

The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems is running a project designed to gather data on which ISPs block BitTorrent traffic - and you can help.