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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by autoexec on Thursday September 08, 2022 @09:55PM (#32774408)
> revoking people's access to what they bought on shoddy evidence - if this actually starts happening to a lot of people I hope they get sued

I wouldn't put my money on them winning that one. It's wrong, but the laws were written by and for companies. I don't think a judge is going to say that a company who runs an online service can't ban users for violations of their policies. Hell, if the law cared about making sure companies couldn't arbitrarily cut off people's access to their purchases DRM would be outlawed.

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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by bspammer on Friday September 09, 2022 @02:44AM (#32776063)
They are not running the online service. These are community servers.
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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by autoexec on Friday September 09, 2022 @03:29AM (#32776376)
Microsoft's service is the account system that they also forced everyone to sign up for. They took a popular product that didn't need them and inserted themselves in-between the game and the players so they could collect the players money, take their data, and control their behavior.
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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by guipsp on Friday September 09, 2022 @06:08AM (#32777430)
Minecraft always had accounts, and you always had some amount of communication with mojang servers for authentications (otherwise anyone could spoof usernames and get other people banned).
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