LimeWire admonishes the kids using it not to do anything bad, like copying a copyrighted file.

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Greg Bildson, chief operating officer, LimeWire, a startup online music service dedicated to Gnutella software development.

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He predicts legit P2P systems like his will overwhelm rogue networks such as LimeWire and Edonkey.

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"LimeWire has 20 million people a day looking for music and television shows, mostly men between 14 and 30 years old, " he says.

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"LimeWire, Edonkey, Ares, BitTorrent--we want to commercialize them all, " Kozel says.

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The hot file-sharing site of the day is LimeWire, right in New York, now the defendant in a copyright lawsuit but equipped with some clever defenses.

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Merrill recently disclosed that a research he conducted concerning users of the now-shuttered LimeWire peer-to-peer service indicated that those who pirate copyrighted content online also spend more money on such contents than their honest counterparts.

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Services with cool-sounding names like Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, Grokster, Morpheus, Gnutella, BitTorrent and MegaUpload flourished among the digital cognoscenti in the days when broadband Internet penetration had just started to gain real traction here and abroad.

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To give you a sense of the scale of this problem alone, consider that according to the Recording Industry Association of America, approximately 2.6 billion files each month are copied on peer-to-peer sites such as KaZaa and LimeWire , which are increasingly being used to share movies in addition to music.

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