I don't really see why you have to block off access to downloads of these older modifications. Sometimes you need access to old code to properly path upgrades to newer products in forums that were badly managed or poorly maintained in the past. I would have thought closing the forums to new replies and making it clear they are read only, unsupported threads would have been enough.
But this site has a whole history of yanking code and making life difficult for some of us. So I'm not surprised.