Privacy

4849 readers

208 users here now

Icon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

Ategon@programming.dev

danielintempesta@programming.dev

115

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

18 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

Funny how the key distinction is that developer-sanctioned private servers are usually for games monetized through a single, up-front purchase of the client rather than a subscription service with which the private server would compete directly. I'm sure that isn't relevant to the context this argument was used in at all.