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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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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I.....what?

Microsoft (through Mojang) provides the server program completely for free.

Get these out-of-touch fucks the hell out of office.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

Correction:

They want their handlers to control everything. As long as their check cashes out, they'll do whatever it takes.