ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal'

The ESA isn't stupid, they're just making the statement to give the politicians in their pockets a cover excuse for making it illegal that the actual dumbasses who support those politicians will buy.

Yes, you can still turn off validation, at least on Java edition - you can even host your own validation server via drasl and similar, but that requires the server to have config options set to use your custom auth (and probably skin) server, and your client to have the libauthinjector mod installed.

Works great as an alternative to whitelisting IP's to play with friends, and means you can't have your Minecraft account deleted because you swore on your privately hosted server and a friend hit the report button.

Calling the Minecraft Cops

Wait until they hear what Quake, DOOM, Marathon, Half-Life, etc were doing in the 90s...

Bully Madison

ESA members: https://www.theesa.com/our-members/

- Amazon
- Atari
- Bandai Namco
- Capcom
- Disney
- EA
- Epic Games
- Konami
- Mattel
- Microsoft
- Netflix
- Nintendo
- Riot Games
- Roblox
- Sony Play Station
- Square Enix
- Take 2 (owner of Rockstar, 2K and Zynga)
- Tencent
- Ubisoft
- Warner Bros
- Wizard of the Coast (owner of MtG and DnD's rights)

The page also has this quote:

Shape and influence the largest entertainment industry in America.

Game devs: „Here is the code to run our games on a private server. Have fun!“

Gamers: „Cool, thanks! Will do!“

ESA: „ISN‘T THERE SOMEONE YOU FORGOT TO ASK???“

Cyberpolice

Saruman and Gríma just want to shape and influence the largest cavalry force of Middle Earth...

If they will still call you a pirate even if you buy the game, and even if the game sells well, they’ll eventually lay off the entire development team, why not just pirate the damn thing from the start?

Screw the ESA and its partners.

I thought it was Napster that was killing music… 🤔

Of all the hot takes in the world, that statement is the dumbest thing I have ever heard someone say. Completely out-of-touch with the case, with the subject and with the games referenced. It is literally wronger than Flat Earth and young earth creationism in a single sentence. I would quote Bully Madison but even that wouldnt suffice.

I'm sorry mate but you asked for it. We are now all dumber for having read the words "Bully Madison."

To the rest of us it certainly makes them sound hella stupid.

today is a good day to ditch Google

the astronauts running a private minecraft server on mission-critical equipment?