Eighteen music labels sued file-sharing network iMesh.com Inc. for copyright infringement, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Friday.
Tel Aviv-based iMesh is the third-largest file-sharing network behind Morpheus and the much larger the KaZaa service. These networks let millions of users around the world trade software, music and video over the Internet.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, charges the company with serving as a medium for the illegal distribution of copyrighted material.
Quoting from the text of the lawsuit, the paper wrote, "Without widespread infringement of the most popular copyrighted sound recordings," iMesh "would disappear."
The legal actions come after iMesh said in late August it planned to sell copyrighted music from independent artists, films and games, alongside its file-swapping operations.
At the time, iMesh chief executive Elan Oren said that the company had no intentions to abandon its file-sharing operations
Tel Aviv-based iMesh is the third-largest file-sharing network behind Morpheus and the much larger the KaZaa service. These networks let millions of users around the world trade software, music and video over the Internet.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, charges the company with serving as a medium for the illegal distribution of copyrighted material.
Quoting from the text of the lawsuit, the paper wrote, "Without widespread infringement of the most popular copyrighted sound recordings," iMesh "would disappear."
The legal actions come after iMesh said in late August it planned to sell copyrighted music from independent artists, films and games, alongside its file-swapping operations.
At the time, iMesh chief executive Elan Oren said that the company had no intentions to abandon its file-sharing operations
