Epic steals user created map, bans creator from Forums

This happened Today, and I'm still shocked by it.

I'm sure many of you already seen the new UT3 360 trailer, but whatmost of you don't know is that one of the maps shown there (DM-ArcticShipment ) is actually a user created map done by a memberthat goes by EpicJon on the Epic Forums.

The map, while not being exactly the same, is a blatant rip off, it's acargo boat, in the middle of the Artic ocean, with snow falling andwith icebergs on the background. When EpicJon posted about hisdiscontent in the Epic Forums he got banned and his thread deleted.

You guys can see the map in action in this trailer:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/32978.html

And here is a shot of the user created one:

And the thread for the map on Epic Forums:
http://utforums.epicgames.com/showth...605011&page=10

I wonder if this is what Epic means by getting MODs on the 360 version,stealing them from users and putting them on XBL without anynotification. While they're most likely allowed to do that legally it'sa very low blow for the modding community.

wow... that is low. i can't believe epic would do something like that. if someone made something really nice for one of my games i'd gladly let people know about it, not rip it off and ban the creator. what i wanna know is why did epic even have a ut3 editor if they won't even be fair about it