I DIDN’T Migrate my Minecraft Account - Here’s What Happened
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What happens if you don't migrate your Minecraft account? The goal of this video is to document exactly what happens if you don't. Maybe I could get it back?...

I’ve just watched the video. I find it pretty outrageous. The word about it should spread.

  • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
    1342·
    8 months ago

    Piracy is piracy.

    But the only one that owns Minecraft is Microsoft, since they bought it for over 2 billion dollars. Everyone else just bought a license to use it. Just like in all the other cases of buying music, video, or software. Unless lots of lawyers were involved, you only bought permission to use it, in a certain way at that. Pretending otherwise or not knowing in the first place has never been a legal excuse.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      Yes, BUT…

      There is buying a licence to use.
      And there is buying a copy you can use.

      This is very much different. Maybe buying a copy of music with a tag attached saying you cannot distribute it further is ok, but saying they can take this copy you bought at any time and make terms how you can use it is another level.

    • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 months ago

      Some video games are open source; you can modify and redistribute it or even sell it. We need more of those and less fat cats playing a trading card game of copyrights while they erode ownership rights.

      • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
        13·
        8 months ago

        I’m sure there are exceptions if you’ll look hard enough. However, even in the case of most open source software, you’ll never become the owner of the intellectual property, you’re just free to use, modify and share it.

        • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          We don’t own the patients to our hardware but we still say we own an item becauee we are in control of it. Users don’t need the copyright of software they use to control it - to modify and share software is to own it.

          (The only thing they may lack is the option to relicense the software if it’s copyleft, but I’d argue that ensures software freedom for 3rd parties).

          • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
            13·
            8 months ago

            but we still say we own an item becauee we are in control of it.

            Yeah, that’s where misconceptions like the one in this thread stem from. Repeat a lie enough, and you’ll start believing it.

            • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              8 months ago

              Two people can speak the same language in name and yet the same word can mean something different to them. Words do not have innate definitions, they have usages.

              In my possession are many things which I presume have copyright/patent and fewer things which do not. It seems to me we just draw the line of “ownership” around different things.