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Ignoring the legal aspect, this strikes me as a dick move. I'm certainly not interested in pay-to-win minecraft servers, but if people want to use them with their purchased copies of the game, they should be able to.
A few years ago (during the height of the anonymous media frenzy), I was working for a hosting company in Iceland, which among other things hosted websites of a large government ministry. One day, I was called into a meeting with a couple of my bosses and other technicians. The reason for the meeting was that we had received a tip-off from the Icelandic police, which they said came from the FBI, that anonymous was planning to attack Icelandic government sites in the next couple of days. They wanted us to make sure the sites were ready, and to monitor for signs of attack.
I thought the whole thing was really strange, how did the Icelandic police have this knowledge? And why did they know with such certainty that there would be an attack in the next two days, when they could not provide us with any other information on the attack vector?
Anyway, we decided to just make a static HTML dump of the site and serve it with thttpd for the time being (the site didn't really have any dynamic content anyway).
Now, several years later, with this and other leaks related to Sabu and Hammond, I wonder: was I used as a pawn in the FBI's game to entrap anonymous? Did the FBI encourage anonymous to attack Icelandic government servers?