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ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers "illegal" in Stop Killing Games hearing: "We consider it piracy", we have lawsuits. (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/privacy@programming.dev

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People don't even want you to play a video game in private now.

"Gibbons cut in: "They're illegal. They are not in any way affiliated with Microsoft. Microsoft, for Minecraft, has gotten a lot of criticism because of those community servers not employing the same safety standards that Microsoft does on their Minecraft servers."

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[–] black0ut@pawb.social 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess we need to take down Microsoft now. You see, they're using their site to distribute pirated games, constituting clear copyright infringement. You can get the server .jar from their minecraft.net site.

[–] FiniteBanjo@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Microsoft's consumer products have been compromised flaming dogshit for at least half a decade, the time has been now for a very long time.