ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal'
anonymousab
11 points
1 comment
June 30, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (1 comments)
mushstory
Unless Microsoft, the owner of Minecraft, raises an IP infringement issue, there is no reason to consider hosting private servers illegal. I fail to understand the ESA's reasoning or why they even brought this up.