Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal'

justdaveisfine@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What are minecraft drm servers?

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  • justdaveisfine@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    When you buy Minecraft, it associates a game license to your Microsoft ID. So when you sign in to the launcher, the DRM server is what it checks with to make sure you own and can play Minecraft before letting you in.

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    • Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ohhhh, I thaught your servers that implement some kind of drm for some reason

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  • gnufuu@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They probably meant to say servers that allow pirated clients to connect. The official server config used to have that option - not sure if it still has.

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    • DarkSirrush@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My thoughts leaned more towards the World of Warcraft private servers; in many ways it’s the same respect, filling in a role that has been taken by the publisher, but they perhaps didn’t intend it to appear so inflammatory in Minecraft’s case, since the main purpose of those servers is just for gameplay, not DRM.

  It’s still a mean sentiment either way, but something tells me they’re not as familiar with the classic, LAN-party, Quake server you’d run.

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