ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal'
www.pcgamer.com
Catch me on the corner selling server.jar out of a long trenchcoat.

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.”

  • Voxel@feddit.org
    4·
    7 hours ago

    Not privacy related.

    Edit: Some people are apparently very delusional. It’s sad, since having proper discussions in spaces like this one becomes almost impossible because of that. I will no longer reply to anything on this comment that fits the category of delusion.

      • Voxel@feddit.org
        3·
        9 hours ago

        It is about the ESA misunderstanding Microsoft’s and Mojang’s license agreement, nothing more.

        • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
          10·
          9 hours ago

          It still belongs in privacy. It’s about trying to stop private game servers. That is going against privacy! Learn the word!

          • Voxel@feddit.org
            2·
            9 hours ago

            So in your definition a private company has to do with privacy? I recommend you take a dictionary and follow your own advice.

            • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
              6·
              9 hours ago

              Dude, are you not reading any of the comments towards you? You are completely wrong. You set up your own private server to be private! Take your own advice. Apparently, you have no idea what the definition even is.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
      11·
      9 hours ago

      Minecraft has chat control enabled by default where any player can report another, have the chat send to Microsoft after which they (or an ai) can decide to ban you from accessing any servers at all.

      Private servers are the only way to block that and create a chat that is safe to use (ironically)

      This is absolutely about privacy.

      • Voxel@feddit.org
        1·
        9 hours ago

        Minecraft has chat control enabled by default (…)

        What chat control are you talking about?

        Private servers are the only way to block that and create a chat that is safe to use (ironically)

        You shouldn’t be talking about private content in Minecraft at all, as the chat is inherently insecure. Private server or not.

        • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
          4·
          9 hours ago

          The one where any random player can report another for any reason and have a portion of the chatlog (without consent of any others) send to Microsoft.

          For reference i have some members on my adult server who like to joke sell sugar as cocaine. There is no info on what actually counts to ban-able, it might just be ai that decides at this point.

          Also there used to be secret library Minecraft servers in china with banned books and thats why there is a separate chinese Minecraft edition now with social media features and all players are identified with all chats monitored.

          “Just don’t type anything private” is not an argument i expect seeing on a privacy community either. Sounds a lot like “if you have nothing to hide”

            • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
              4·
              8 hours ago

              The official Minecraft website has an article about a public, private server run by reporters without borders.

              https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/uncensored-library

              https://www.uncensoredlibrary.com/en

              For obvious reasons many copies of this server And predecessors that existed/may operate within oppressive areas do not advertise their existence online.

              Wiki entry of minecraft china edition.

              https://minecraft.wiki/w/China_Edition

              Tap for spoiler

              • Free to download

                • Valid Chinese citizen ID required to play

              • Friends system, with live text chat support

                • Text content in-game may be moderated, such as chat, Book and Quills, Written Books, Signs, Command Blocks, renamed items (via Anvils) and mobs (via renamed Spawn Eggs or Name Tags)
                • Moderation is also applied to in-launcher content, such as community posts, comments on contents, and private messages. Rental servers and virtual LAN games are not allowed to have names altogether, instead being referred to by a numerical ID

              The argument about minecraft chat being inherently insecure is a straw-man at best. A private server, whitelisted for my own household that runs on hardware that i own is just as secure as any other speech that happens in my living room.

              There is no reason for microsoft to have the ability to steal logs to moderate it. And this is why almost every respectable server i know uses plugins to block that shit.

        • All Ice In Chains@lemmy.ml
          3·
          8 hours ago

          I’m not gonna call bullshit on them for having a shitty website, lots of IT people are too lazy to make a good website; hell the entire open source ecosystem runs on IT people with shitty websites.

          I’ll call bullshit on them by invoking Hitchens’ Razor on their argument: What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. This is extra ironic considering Hitchens’ many unsubstantiated criticisms of socialism.