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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 months 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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[–] XLE@piefed.social 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not only did 5 small monkeys in a trench coat make this ludicrous statement, but the ESA doubled down and embarrassed themselves and Microsoft in the process later on with a written statement that sounds even dumber, and even more like a threat towards anybody running private servers than anything else.

In a statement to PC Gamer, the ESA wrote that, so far as it's concerned, "Private servers infringe on the intellectual property (IP) rights of game publishers. Publishers reserve the right to exercise their rights against them."

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 18 points 3 months 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 3 months 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.