Whoa! No need to be so harsh, RV.

Copyright violations are very common on the board. There are TONS of people who have done similar things on the board and not received similar treatment (just search for "link" or "stargate" to see what I mean). Mostly they are due to ignorance about the law and not outright attempts at infringement. I would recommend you save the warnings for the un-repetent, from those that don't back down, and not for people like Ryan who are repentent and now know better. Otherwise you might be very busy indeed!

He apologized, he won't do it again, and that is a lot more than we usually get from people. Let's build on that instead of scaring him away from game development forever!