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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."

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[-] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days 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.

[-] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 5 days ago

Minecraft was never open source.

[-] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I was wrong. It was available free early on when it was pre-release.

[-] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

But that didn't even happen. Microsoft still specifically enables (let alone allows) running private servers. The ESA is just lying.

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

I think that would count as enclosure

this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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