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Re:EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games by jiggy2011 on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @05:32PM (#8564671)
Most of the minecraft money comes from selling copies of the client, not from server subscriptions as in the case of WoW.
Re:EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games by gizmo686 on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @11:18PM (#8565771)
To clarify this point, the Minecraft server is free to download [0], even if you have not purchased the game at all.

[0] https://minecraft.net/download