Reuters reports that Eighteen Music Labels Sue File-Sharing Network. According to the story, suit was filed in Manhattan against iMesh, a file-sharing network based in Israel. (Read more ... )
At their website, iMesh (with a lower case "i") claims 50 million members and says: "As a member of the leading peer-to-peer network, you can download, search, share and even publish just about any digital media file."
At Slyck.com, an site featuring information and conversation about file sharing, iMesh is described as " the last of the original file-sharing networks. iMesh made its mark when CuteMX, Scour and Napster were the big names in file-sharing. Despite the downfall of these networks, the Israeli based company has managed to prosper during file-sharings darkest hours. iMesh's strength comes from its impressive userbase of approximately 100,000 users and simultaneous download capability (among the first to support this feature). Although this Napster-like network has been requested to block copyrighted material, search queries are usually very successful."
Popular magazine PCWorld has a short description and download link to iMesh on its site.
The University of Chicago's Networking Services and IT unit provides information on how to disable file sharing in iMesh software.
Duke University's OIT unit has instructions on disabling upload on iMesh on their site's articles addressing legal and bandwidth concerns about P2P file sharing generally.
The file sharing network has no apparent connection to IMesh (with a capital "I"), which describes itself as an "International Collaboration on Internet Subject Gateways --
For discussion of international collaboration on subject-based resource discovery services."