Jonathan had no choice other then to sell to domain. He is being sued by the SPPF. (French RIAA) He contacted the shareaza team and the EFF but received no support. These documents haven’t been made public before but I think they should be. Yes, he sold the domain to scumbags. But I understand *WHY* he did it.

Read this:
http://users.edpnet.be/vtolfreak/2007-09-18_SPPF_Lawsuit.pdf
http://users.edpnet.be/vtolfreak/2007-09-18_SPPF_English.pdf

And now ask yourself what you would do when you are being sued into poverty?

Copyright infringement by the SPPF and associates.

Since making the accusations against Nilson, the domain name shareaza.com now points to a website that does not distribute the Shareaza software. Instead, it points to another website similar in appearance to the old Shareaza website which offers visitors an application named ShareazaV4.exe. That application is a different piece of software which the owner of the site falsely claim is the Shareaza software but which is actually a similar application that has been re-labeled and is owned and controlled by MediaLab, who are associates of the SPPF. The website and re-labeled software both use copyrighted artwork and logos from the real Shareaza website and software (without permission) in an attempt to trick visitors into downloading and using MediaLabs' software.

The SPPF has therefore been complicit in the facilitation of copyright infringement and deception by threatening a foreign citizen with no means to defend himself in a French court and extorting from him the control of the Shareaza.com domain so that it may be used by SPPF's associates to infringe copyright and deceive web users into downloading their own software application.

The author of this letter and the Shareaza community of users and developers are outraged by the SPPF's actions and their hypocrisy by infringing copyright in a misguided attempt to protect their own.

Since the rise in popularity of P2P networks and software the music industry, represented by the SPPF and their international associates have refused to take advantage of new opportunities and new markets and are only just beginning to offer web users with attractive digital offerings. At the same time, they have waged an unconscionable war on competitors who refuse to co-operate with them, software developers and even their own customers.

In bringing suit against Jonathan Nilson, the SPPF have used a tactic that has been developed in collusion with their international counterparts and used the intricacies of their local legal system to force an individual with no capacity to defend themselves to bow to their demands and accept a proposition that no fair minded person would consider reasonable. It is this deliberate targeting of weak opponents that allows them to exercise control over any weaker person or organization of their choosing, innocent or guilty, without oversight as demonstrated by the fact that Shareaza's co-accused SourceForge.net (a registered company with the capacity to respond to legal threats) has not lost control of it's domain as Shareaza has, nor to the best of the author's knowledge, paid a cent in compensation to the SPPF.

The author of this letter considers La Societe Des Producteurs De Phonogrammes En France to be cowardly, deceitful, underhanded and, by engaging in this reprehensible domain-raping action, a threat to any person who values a free and open culture.

D'après TorrentFreak, Jonathan Nilson aurait accepté de vendre le nom de domaine à Musiclab, une filiale d'iMesh. Un exemple de loyauté envers la communauté open-source.

Kad, tu ne crois pas que du coup, tu devrais reprendre ça :