For most of you who are uninitiated, Shareaza is a P2P software which is licensed under the GNU GPL, that is, the software is free as in beer and speech, as in, it’s supposed to be free for download, and anyone is allowed to modify the program, so long they conform to the license.
On December 2007, an unknown party has “hijacked” the domain name for Shareaza, redirecting unsuspecting users to the “hijackers’” own website. In the website, it asks for paid registration and provides a download to a software passing off as the original software, yet it actually contains malware and is a threat for computer users.
To add matters worse, it is revealed that the “hijacker” belonged to a company that is famous for turning previously supposedly free services into paid unsafe services.
Now, the makers of the Shareaza is facing an ultimate test: their trademark is now being taken over by the company, effectively losing the very name that makes them “Shareaza.”
I am making this post in protest of Discordia Ltd, MusicLabs LLC and all parties that are involved in scamming users and robbing the original authors of their identity and right over their software. Their methods are very unethical, and I daresay downright illegal. They turned something that was supposedly belonged to someone else’s, and then tricked other users to think that “their software” are the legitimate ones, but in actual fact is riddled with malicious codes. And now they are robbing the authors of Shareaza of their identity, slowly losing control over their software. This, in my opinion, is an outright daylight robbery! I urged everyone to spread the word, to support Shareaza’s original authors in their legal defense fund in stopping the scammers’ attempt of registering Shareaza trademark as theirs. SHAREAZA™ IS THE PROPERTY OF THE SHAREAZA DEVELOPMENT TEAM. Links:
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