Some vandal has just knocked the Shareaza forums offline.

[Aaron_Walkhouse]

Apparently somebody obtained admin access and deleted the forums, then was
in the midst of trying to wipe out the project at Sourceforge when I showed
up and scared him off. I made a backup of all the sourcecode but it looks
like the vandal ran out of wits when I showed up and didn't finish the job.

It looks like we may already know who did it but I won't name names until we
make a positive ident and get the ball rolling.

[1cooldude]

wtf is this world coming to..? might have to implant "friend or foe" IP signatures.

[SkinVista]

This is notice that the Shareaza Sourceforge project itself has been hijacked from the developers and effectively deleted, in addition to the new website.

Will Erwin, the Houston (Texas) donor who is directly responsible, may be the same William Erwin who hijacked MethLabs.org PeerGuardian in 2005.

EDIT: Sourceforge has now returned control of the project back to the proper developers, and repairs are under way. Control was only lost for around 14 hours, but damage is done.

[Aaron_Walkhouse]

Let's start gathering information on this guy. It's time he was banned
from all P2P forums and web sites, and this second offence rises to the
level of a felony.

Send me any info you can find and I'll start by putting him in the Level 1
blocklist as an anti-P2P activist. I'll also distribute blocking information
to all web sites and forums involved with P2P, PeerGuardian and security.

Anybody with information can just click on my username and use the "Send a message"
link or go to any of the forums I run or use regularly and send me a PM.