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The article reports that a U.S. appeals court ruled the Federal Communications Commission wrongly sanctioned Comcast Corp. for impeding customers' use of some Internet peer-to-peer file sharing services on its communications network. The case has ramifications for the debate over whether Internet service providers such as Comcast must treat all Internet traffic alike.

This article discusses a new approach that some record executives are taking towards music piracy. Some record executives are realizing the most music pirates are music fans and that marketing to them might be more desirable in the long run than suing them or harassing them. A recent music video by Jay-Z was legally distributed with promotions for Coca-Cola Co. to peer-to-peer sites. Music files with promotional material inserted are planted on file-sharing sites so that users who illegally download music will also be viewing the ads.

The author discusses the performance of BitTorrent, a file sharing service that sometimes hosts pirated content, arguing that copyright holders are attracting growing numbers of users through Internet platforms such as Netflix as of May 2013.

The article reports on the criticism against the complaint of U.S. hard-rock band Buckcherry about the leak of one of its track from an upcoming album onto the Internet as a promotional stunt by the group's handlers. Ernesto Van Der Sar, editor of online filesharing blog TorrentFreak.com, said that the song "Too Drunk" was actually leaked online by a computer with an Internet protocol address associated with the band's manager, Josh Klemme. It is claimed that entertainment firms often use filesharing to market music or gauge their offerings' popularity.

The article reports on the efforts of companies to improve Web video quality. BitTorrent Inc., a developer of peer-to-peer file-sharing software, plans to launch a technology that will make high quality Web video more affordable. A technology was developed by Web-video technology company Move Networks Inc., that streams video at the fastest rate possible based on the user's computer.

The article reports that the names, Social Security numbers and mortgage information of many people have been leaked by an employee of ABN Amro Mortgage Group, a unit of Citigroup Inc., onto a peer-to-peer file-sharing network. It says that Dow Jones Newswires reviewed the spreadsheets that contain the information by using Lime Wire software. Lime Wire LLC has released a statement saying that the company is upgrading its software to combat and eliminate unintentional file sharing.

The article warns that the peer-to-peer file-sharing network users may share their own personal financial information over the Internet. In two studies, Eric Johnson of the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Studies has found bank statements, credit-card bills and other documents on file-sharing sites such as Gnutella, FastTrack and eDonkey. The studies also reveals that bank employees sometimes mistakenly release clients' information into cyberspace when working from their home computers.

Reports on the shutdown of the EliteTorrent online file-sharing network by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Homeland Security for downloading copies of "Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith" before it was shown in theaters.