2w ago

Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Person backed the Stop Killing Games campaign. criticizing digital game licenses. He argued that if players don't truly own games, then piracy isn't theft.

wccftech.com

Minecraft Creator Says That If Buying a Game Is Not a Purchase, Then Pirating It Is Not Theft

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Never pass up an opportunity to post this onion (clickhole) article
- Yeah, he had his stopped clock moment for 2025. What a shame. Shit, I used to really like that guy.
- one of their best articles ever
Notch is a POS, he just needs the PR.
- He's a bit of a tragic figure, terminally online dude who went down the alt right pipeline until he wouldn't publicly admit that the Nazis were bad. He used to openly support trans rights! What a mess.
  
  Lot of rich people need to learn how to properly exit to wealthy retirement like Tom from MySpace did fading away. Don't be Notch and please don't become Zuckerberg or Musk. Just go away and leave people alone.
  
  It was definitely not a graceful fall. Hate to see it happen but, how can you be convinced against human rights? His beliefs must have been quite ephemeral to switch up like that.
  
  im lucky that I didnt become a deranged alt right freak. I became an annoying leftist instead
  
  Even if you disregard that, he fucking sold minecraft to microsoft. He is the biggest offender ever in terms of killing games.
The guy who required a login for his game, allowing Microsoft to steal ownership from the earliest owners while he walked away a billionaire? That guy? That’s the guy talking about digital ownership?
- What was that second point? I was an early buyer (before infdev) and I still have it.
Yes notch is a dick but on the upside, they're at 1.3M signatures!
https://stopkillinggamestracker.pages.dev/
- I don't follow Minecraft drama. Why's he a dick?
  
  Alt right bigot
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson
  Check out the personal life section.
Yeah uhhhh let's maybe not promote shit that Notch says.
- Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
- Being contrarian just for the sake of it. Let's completely abandon consumer rights protections because one questionable person supported the initiative.
  
  Yeah I was just memeing but then I realised that might not be 100% obvious.

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