Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal'

• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you have the facts, you pound the facts. If you have the law, you pound the law. If you have neither, you pound the table. This is the ESA pounding the table, and the goal is to confuse the gerontocracy LARPing as lawmakers.

  source

  • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is why tech has gotten so out of control in the US. In the past 40 years, this industry has had so many revolutionary inventions while our legislators on average get older and less likely to understand the newest technology, thereby making them more susceptible to being misled or misleading others. Combined with our legislators not giving a fuck about actual economics, this is how we have oligopolies everywhere in the US with cartel behavior

    source

    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Things have gotten so out of control because people have gotten stupid and lazy and put up with all of this shit.

      source

      • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        People have gotten stupid because billionaires have orchestrated the gutting of education and people are too exhausted, not “lazy”, because they’re overworked by billionaires.

        Capitalism is always the problem. Okay, very rarely organized religion or genuine natural disasters, but almost always capitalism.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
      • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Also true. It doesn’t help that the most successful and influential people in this time-frame have also been widely manipulative by pulling the ladder to success up with them, dismantling education, and increasing the amount of sugar and other unhealthy things in our food

        source
• Vittelius@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The way I see it there are two possible reasons:

  1. incompetence: The statement in question was said by ESA’s vice president for state government affairs, in other words a professional lobbyist. Video games are her day job, not her hobby. I don’t know how much she actually plays herself. It may therefore be the case that she wasn’t briefed properly or she got confused. The ESA is currently persuing legal action against certain private servers after all. The article contains specifics on those but in short: Those servers enable piracy, the Minecraft ones don’t.
  2. they are lying: the whole thing was part of a hearing on Stop Killing Games. Private servers are one of the ways to fulfill their demands. It us the industry’s position that implementing those is too complicated. Each instance of private servers existing weakens the argument. So better pretend that those don’t exist. After all gamers won’t even learn about this statement. It’s a random California state senate hearing. They don’t watch those!

  source
• AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s a left over from the indie days. I highly doubt they’d make that available in a new game. But in this case I think its probably a law person that has no clue about games.

  source