Originally Posted by signupdamnit

If that's what you have to do then I agree with you. It's much better than leaving the links up because then these people see that they can do this and their links will stay up for years because webmasters are too lazy to remove them.

I would just search on the server for their links and automatically have them replaced and then replace the content as I have time. If they don't like it then let them pay up what they owe.