Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft
PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 3 weeks agoYes, they can — Minecraft consults a Microsoft-managed, dynamically updatable blocklist of server IPs, regardless of who owns the server. In addition, Minecraft has functionality to ban players from authenticating to any multiplayer server.
stray@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Microsoft does not have the ability to stop you from running a Minecraft server. They can block you from using their authentication server, but all you have to do is edit a setting to false and then even people with pirated copies can join the server.
PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
This still doesn’t help if the server is on the server blacklist, which Microsoft can add you to.
stray@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
What part of the EULA would that violate? And why would that matter when the goal is to join an EULA-violating server in the first place?