This report, about illegal movie downloads in France from the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA) wasn't supposed to be released until September. However, it was leaked earlier this week to the Internet.

A Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist says transferring large data files, such as movies and music, over the Internet could be sped up significantly if peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services were configured to share not only identical files, but also similar files.