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ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Vittelius@feddit.org to c/games@lemmy.world
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Cross-geposted von: https://feddit.org/post/31996415

In a remarkably strange statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over the Protect Our Games Act (AB 1921, California's Stop Killing Games-endorsed bill to compel publishers to provide ways to keep playing discontinued games), a representative of the Entertainment Software Association declared private servers for the likes of Minecraft and Call of Duty "illegal," adding that, so far as the ESA is concerned, "we consider it piracy."

In a statement to PC Gamer, the ESA wrote that, so far as it's concerned, "Private servers infringe on the intellectual property (IP) rights of game publishers. Publishers reserve the right to exercise their rights against them."

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Reading this article, ESA feels like the evil archenemies of the Stop Killing Games folks. As SKG put it, the talk of illegality was to mislead a Californian legislator too busy to fact check.

That said, the real fight ESA is pushing is more in regards to private servers for MMOs and other always-online games that SKG wants to be legal as part of preservation. I personally disagree with ESA in that regard, although I can understand their legal argument regarding the lawsuits on World of Warcraft private servers, mentioned in the article.

(Though, my two cents, I personally feel "free market" should mean official servers are better and earn their subscriptions: more people, more reliable, better content, etc... but they usually aren't. So fuck them, lol).

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[–] BottleBoardBakon@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What I would give to have these fucks having an inkling of what it is they're talking about.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They know. They don't care that it makes no sense. To them anyone with money that is not paying all of it to them is a criminal.

[–] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m sorry, WHAT? How fucking stupid do you have to be to think that this makes any sense.

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Vittelius@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago

And they've been successful with that strategy (for now)

Regardless, the Protect Our Games Act did not make it out of this stage of the legislative process. With four aye votes, three noes, and four abstentions, it failed to accrue the majority of ayes necessary to pass. Nevertheless, it has been granted a reconsideration, so it's not the end.

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[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Big “Home Taping is Killing Music” energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music

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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

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

[–] justdaveisfine@piefed.social 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm actually going assume they (ESA) meant the Minecraft DRM servers and not the hosting and playing with friends servers, because they refer to 'counterfeiting and piracy' lawsuits right afterwards. I mean its easy to say they don't know the difference but I'd suspect this was a little more malicious.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 30 points 1 day ago

They don't know the difference. Oh, you're right, that was easy.

[–] Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What are minecraft drm servers?

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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Did they let their members know this before they implemented private matches and server browsers in their games?

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