Rumortoid: UT III modder accuses Epic of theft, eats a forum ban

Like most writers in this industry, I hang around NeoGAF while pretending that I don’t. In doing so, I stumbled across a rather interesting thread detailing how Epic banned an Unreal Tournament III modder from its message board after he accused the company of stealing his creation, as seen (ridiculously briefly) in the Xbox 360 trailer:
I’m sure many of you already seen the new UT3 360 trailer, but what most of you don’t know is that one of the maps shown there ( DM-ArcticShipment ) is actually a user created map done by a member that goes by EpicJon on the Epic Forums.
The map, while not being exactly the same, is a blatant rip off, it’s a cargo boat, in the middle of the Artic ocean, with snow falling and with icebergs on the background. When EpicJon posted about his discontent in the Epic Forums he got banned […]

Original post by mrdestructoid@gmail.com (Destructoid.com) and software by Elliott Back