Does anyone else think that the SOPA blackout that Notch is going to do (as per the Tweet linked in this article) crosses the line? Interrupting a service customers have paid for seems to go beyond what is reasonable, I haven't seen any others going that far, although I guess reddit does have reddit gold... to me disabling reddit (a user generated content site that will be affected by SOPA) is justifiable whereas taking down a service that customers have paid for that isn't directly affected by SOPA seems... overboard.
based on this I'm assuming he means they're going to take minecraft.net down meaning the login servers, otherwise it'd be a worthless gesture, nobody would know (besides Mojangs bank account)
Legally I don’t think this is a problem. The login servers are not needed to play Minecraft. Singleplayer obviously works without them. Multiplayer does, too, but servers can (and in practice do) require you to be logged in.
Morally? I don’t know. I don’t think so. People might disagree.
I dunno... I think you have a point worth considering, but to call Minecraft a service seems misleading, or at least incomplete.
Minecraft is an Internet-based leisure activity, and its well-admired benevolent dictator has declared a day of protest about an issue that he feels affects his community. I suspect his community will mostly support it, and might even like Minecraft and Notch all the more for it.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 39.4 ms ] threadbased on this I'm assuming he means they're going to take minecraft.net down meaning the login servers, otherwise it'd be a worthless gesture, nobody would know (besides Mojangs bank account)
Legally I don’t think this is a problem. The login servers are not needed to play Minecraft. Singleplayer obviously works without them. Multiplayer does, too, but servers can (and in practice do) require you to be logged in.
Morally? I don’t know. I don’t think so. People might disagree.
Minecraft is an Internet-based leisure activity, and its well-admired benevolent dictator has declared a day of protest about an issue that he feels affects his community. I suspect his community will mostly support it, and might even like Minecraft and Notch all the more for it.
That would be huge, but I haven't heard about it elsewhere.