File sharing, post-Grokster

Jon Healey in the LA Times: Building New Template for File Sharing, in the wake of the Grokster decision.

A handful of companies are trying to build an audience for legal file sharing, enabling people to swap songs for a fee, not free. Three of them — Mashboxx of Virginia Beach, Va., IMesh of New York and Ruckus Network Inc. of Herndon, Va. — plan to let users connect through some of the same file-sharing networks that have been hotbeds for pirated music and movies.