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ESA declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' in StopKillingGames hearing

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I've long wondered why the thriving community around Minecraft doesn't get behind Luanti or a similar open source "clone", especially since so much of the community stuff itself is open source. I fear this may be a painful lesson for those people that open source matters. It's not the license cost (aka the free as-in beer freedom) that is the problem, it's the free as-in speech that is the problem. If you don't use software that respects your rights, don't expect it to respect your rights. All you can do is pray they don't alter the deal further.

There are a lot of similar implementations, but nothing really comes close to replicating the full mechanics of the actual game. Probably because the game is so easily decompiled that most people don’t see a need.

I think you missed the truth behind this article: private Minecraft servers are not piracy, or illegal, in any sense. The EULA that server admins must agree to in order to use the server states that other servers are allowed.

There's no reason to move to an open source client, since Minecraft is already more open that the vast majority of games, and has shown no signs of closing that access in the future.

"Gibbons talks ape shit" would have been a nice headline with a grammatical tripwire.

I wonder what it's like: opening one's mouth and hearing things being said, without a moment of thinking before.

Maybe it's like riding a talk-bus I suspect: when you see the bus turning the wrong corner, you realise you're on a looong way back home suddenly, because the next stop is the nowhere station.

I prefer a more direct approach

Gibbons lies

Is it completely unreasonable for me to expect a representative of an organization like the ESA to know better than this?

This is such an absurd thing to say. It is so ignorant on the subject of games and game servers that it borders on contempt toward the entire topic

I wish we could expect better out of organizations like this but it seems like they really don't care to take their work seriously

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