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.”

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
    110·
    9 hours ago

    […] and just to clear this up right away: what she said was nonsense. You can, literally right now, head over to the official Minecraft website and download a .jar file to let you run your own private server.

    I love how confidently stupid and wrong she was here.

    What I fucking hate is this pattern of attacks on open source and self-hosting we’ve been seeing. Anthropic’s CEO saying that open source self-hosted LLMs are “dangerous” for example.

    • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Oh but they are VERY dangerous. Dangerous for the 1%’s wealth. What will they do if they have to downsize their billion dollar yachts???

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 hour ago

        But the thing is? They’re not. Billionaires would still be billionaires without attacking open source and self hosting.

        The problem is that billionaires are hungry ghosts. It’s not enough to be fabulously wealthy, they just want more. Forever.

    • strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      It’s not just open source and self-hosting. They’re going after Steam because they actually treat their customers well. Despite still not truly owning your games on their, you basically do. As long as Steam is good, gamers won’t forget that services can be good, and we can’t have that, can we?

        • strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          For real. I think it ended up being alright, but they sued Valve because of gambling in Counter Strike‽ Like, have they never heard of Overwatch‽

          Meanwhile, “Epic” Games profits off of kids who sneak their parents’ credit cards for whatever nonsense is going on in Fortnite, and Roblox is full of predators!

    • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 hours ago

      Yes. This is a classic case of a large company buying an open source product that was specifically designed to get children to be creative and build their own worlds and then deciding that such usage is illegal unless you pay loads of money.

      A perfect snapshot of enshitification.

    • StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today
      22·
      35 minutes ago

      Open source LLMs are very dangerous for their bottom line, they have all the same problems as non open source LLMs and the shareholders don’t even make money off of them!