I think it's a pretty reasonable assumption that DBJ would not have dropped the suit that easily if they had not gotten what they wanted, and the only thing Jim could have given them would have been the identities of his sources. "Ratting his sources out" might be a strongly stated description for what I think he did, but you will never get me to believe anything other than that he revealed who they were, and that he would not have done so without being sued. Now that the courts will apparently not be passing any kind of judgement on this case, the court of public opinion can form whatever opinions it will on the things Jim and his sources did as well as on CBS/SEG's tactics in pursuing Jim's sources. You can and probably have inferred my opinion of Jim, but I actually have a far lower opinion of CBS/SEG and Mark Burnett than I do of Jim. Basically I think CBS/SEG forced Jim and his sources to throw each other under the bus, based on what I've read here and at Sucks, and all of them what're in charge at CBS and SEG ought to be ashamed of themselves, because that was IMO a very underhanded and unethical way to go about plugging the leaks.