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[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 41 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

A lobbying group from the Entertainment Software Association made bold and sometimes questionable arguments against the bill, including claiming that a community running private servers for games like Minecraft would be illegal.

WTF

[–] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 13 hours ago

That's not "questionable," that's straight-up evil and totalitarian. There's not any ambiguity about it, at all: the ESA wants to destroy private property ownership and subjugate us all as cattle to be milked.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 hours ago

Yah that might kill Minecraft and get things like vintage story bumpin

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I’m sure they mean bedrock, not Java.

[–] doublah@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Well then. I think someone is misconstruing something. Because surely they are not claiming Microsoft needs to stop offering what you just linked. … I assume the server software you linked isn’t forced to be public access?

I’ve been out of the Minecraft game a long time. I assumed Bedrock was facilitated by Microsoft servers only. It’s all I used back when VR was new in Bedrock.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

It doesn't fucking matter. Not even a little bit. It's 1000% an attack on property rights and must be stopped by any means necessary.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 17 points 14 hours ago

And I'm sure the judge is able to make that distinction with no issues.