We all know why...

As the email sent out clearly stated, its because of a few members of the nuke community that make MONEY from other peoples hard work and blatenly abuse the GPL/GNU licence that nuke falls under.

They will argue they dont make money , but they do .. they make money to buy more commercial themes and make there collection bigger and bigger.

Why should designers spend there hard time (weeks in some cases) making a awsome theme, for a few tossers to get hold of it and resell for penuts.

I dont agree with encoding/encripting files but i presume you felt you needed some more security, these people will simply re-write the theme files though, all there after is your skills, your graphics ... thats what there stealing and its a shame.

Personally it wouldnt suprise me if you stop supporting nuke themes... look at how many nuke theme designers come ..... and go ... and you wonder why ? after a few months/year designing they realize the themes fall under GPL and deside to focus there skills esle where.

Well i wish u the best even if i have heard some bad stuff about xtrato in the past, i wouldnt wish any nuke designer to quit to the few lossers that are out there...