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Comment by duskdozer | Hacker News Reader

Doubt it. Microsoft probably just sees "voxel game" and files the claim, because they don't lose anything if it fails.

From the article:

>Luanti’s Android app is currently not available on the due to a baseless DMCA notice filed on behalf of Microsoft by Tracer.AI, alleging that Luanti infringes Minecraft’s copyright.

>Luanti is a voxel game-creation platform where anyone can make, share, discover, and play blocky games.

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(edit: oh, sorry, i thought you were doubting the quoted text, but you were actually using it as evidence to support your argument. my bad. if you delete your reply, maybe i can delete this comment too)

my old comment for reference:

you doubt what? the claim they are filing is that luanti violates the copyright. that's the point of filing a DMCA notice. that means they are alleging that luanti infringes minecraft’s copyright. what else could it be?

I see the quotes are misleading. I doubt the parent's suggestion and was providing the article quotes as justification. I've edited it now.

Yeah; notice that "on behalf of": Microsoft isn't even the one filing this, they've outsourced their enforcement and may not even have known about this before it blew up.

I'd imagine Microsoft gave them pretty clear instructions to not let them know officially when they're bullying other companies on Microsoft's behalf.

Here's another arm using Luanti as a test bed: https://arxiv.org/html/2603.03482v1

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