• Wired, Thursday, November 3, 2005 12:57 PM

Peer to peer file sharing networks have struggled to reinvent themselves following the Supreme Court's unanimous landmark ruling against Grokster earlier this year. File swapping network iMesh has now relaunched itself, according to a Wired report. The New York-based company is now charging its users 99 cents per download, or $6.95 a month for unlimited access to its full database of content. As part of a promotion, the company is offering three free months of access to its music catalog, which includes 15 million or so tracks from the Gnutella database that are either unclaimed or unprotected by copyright law. Company President and COO Ofer Shabtai says access to this "gray market" database is the key difference between iMesh and services like iTunes, Rhapsody, and Napster.

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