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Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Person backed the Stop Killing Games campaign. criticizing digital game licenses. He argued that if players don't truly own games, then piracy isn't theft. (wccftech.com)

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[-] pezhore@infosec.pub 42 points 1 month ago

Yes notch is a dick but on the upside, they're at 1.3M signatures!

https://stopkillinggamestracker.pages.dev/

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I don't follow Minecraft drama. Why's he a dick?

[-] jawa22 29 points 1 month ago

Alt right bigot

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gathered that after reading more of the comments. Thank you.

[-] pezhore@infosec.pub 7 points 1 month ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson

Check out the personal life section.

[-] Wolf@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

FYI, you can link to a specific section of a Wikipedia article like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Personal_life

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