ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' in Stop Killing Games hearing: 'We consider…
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) declared private servers for games like Minecraft and Call of Duty to be illegal and considered piracy during a California State Senate hearing. ESA vice president Jennifer Gibbons stated that these servers infringe on publisher intellectual property rights and do not meet safety standards, despite community pushback and the failure of the Protect Our Games Act to pass in its current form.
- Entities
- Game: Minecraft
- Company: Microsoft
- Company: Blizzard Entertainment
- Company: Entertainment Software Association of Canada
- Topic: Piracy
- Person: Jennifer Gibbons
- Topic: Game Preservation
- Game: Call of Duty
- Topic: Intellectual Property
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