Is Minecraft piracy really piracy? (feddit.it)

submitted 3 months ago by Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Minecraft is easy to pirate...but why? Well to answer you: there is 0 effort to pirate it, download the client.jar from mojang official APIs (which is totally FREE) and run the jar without using any valid session ID, done! What...that's too easy, were is the catch? Well you can't have a skin, you can't play minecraft servers that don't allow un-authenticated users and anyone can use the same user without any password
Is that really piracy? I mean i am using a free thing, not messing with microsoft shit - yes i did read mojang eula and no- it's not against it.
So i wonder: can we just not call it piracy? Dunno...i leave the words to y'all!

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

🚫 hack - unprofessional, buggy and possibly illegal

✔️ Expanded features to free software - professional, shows care with all users

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

If it is allowing you to connect to servers which require premium accounts it is a form of hacking since you are bypassing access control on a server you don't own.

Even though like 90% of Minecraft server owners are pieces of shit and about 70% of those are P2W servers doing it for money it's still not a good idea.

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

But it IS illegal and not always well done.

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