Should banned user mods/maps/etc be deleted from these boards?

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

I think this was semi-decided back when in 2004 when another banned person went thru and deleted as many of his own programs and posts as he could find. Thats when the 30-minute edit window was reinstated, and the backups of uploaded items. The poster no longer gets those choices. Anything put on a companys server is considered to be their property.

This doesn't hold up in court actually. At least in the US, terms of service agreements are often thrown out as non-binding, especially when they conflict with other established rights. I am not a lawyer, but I am virtually certain that a creator's implicit copyright to work he creates trumps any boilerplate terms of service agreement. The only way to relinquish copyright in the US is to specifically agree to do so for a work.

So just because you clicked 'yes' to 5 pages of legal gobbledegook doesn't mean those 5 pages trump other legal considerations.