1975 – 2015retired
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“Lost the war, won our hearts, and always looked sharper doing it.”
“Nine languages, one network, and a front-row seat to the wild early years of file sharing.”
iMesh was a media and file sharing client, available in nine languages, that ran on its own proprietary, centralized P2P network, IM2Net. It was operated by American company iMesh, Inc., with development centers around the world, and by 2009 it ranked as the third most popular music subscription service in the US. Notably, it was the first RIAA-approved P2P service, letting users in the US and Canada stream and downl
iMesh's lights went out on June 9, 2016, closing the book on one of P2P's most interesting experiments. Its final years were blemished: in September 2013 the site was hacked, exposing roughly 50 million accounts, data that surfaced for sale on a dark market site in mid-2016. Still, it leaves behind the memory of a service that proved file sharing and the record industry could, on rare occasions, share a drink at the
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