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> Clicking the button below will download the client from mojang.com. By clicking it, you agree to the Minecraft EULA. It's literally just downloading the cli

> Clicking the button below will download the client from mojang.com. By clicking it, you agree to the Minecraft EULA. It's literally just downloading the client from https://piston-data.mojang.com/v1/objects/4a2fac7504182a97dcbcd7560c6392d7c8139928/client.jar https://piston-data.mojang.com/v1/objects/4a2fac7504182a97dc... where mojang makes it publicly available. It's an older version so it's not linked on their website anymore, but you can find the same download link on the wiki: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_1.2.5 https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_1.2.5 What makes you think they will have "lawyers in their future"?

immibis 2y ago
Lawyers and judges care about the overall effect of a thing, not the technical steps you take to make it happen. The overall effect is: Someone goes to your website, and plays Minecraft for free. Therefore you gave them the service of playing Minecraft for free. Which is illegal. The fact that the file comes from Microsoft's server is one of those "technicalities" that you've heard about some people sometimes, but not usually, getting off on. Microsoft will probably argue that the login prompt is a technological protection measure, which makes it blanket illegal to work around, due to the over-broad DMCA. That technicality is about as likely to work against you, as the "it's from their server so I didn't distribute it" technicality is to work for you... Mandatory disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
- jillyboel 2y ago
  Start with suing the minecraft wiki then I guess Also you should probably advice mojang to put some authentication on their download URLs, which have been publicly documented for more than a decade by now. There is no login prompt. This project is over a year old. You are just misinterpreting the situation. This is like threatening to sue Mozilla because you can use Firefox to click on a download button, or Microsoft because double clicking on an exe on Windows runs the application.
  - immibis 2y ago
    ... no, it is not like that, and I can't help you.
    - jillyboel 2y ago
      Good thing no one is asking you for "help". You're the one threatening FUD without anyone asking for it. Go bother someone else with your nonsense, lol.

immibis 2y ago

Lawyers and judges care about the overall effect of a thing, not the technical steps you take to make it happen. The overall effect is: Someone goes to your website, and plays Minecraft for free. Therefore you gave them the service of playing Minecraft for free. Which is illegal. The fact that the file comes from Microsoft's server is one of those "technicalities" that you've heard about some people sometimes, but not usually, getting off on. Microsoft will probably argue that the login prompt is a technological protection measure, which makes it blanket illegal to work around, due to the over-broad DMCA. That technicality is about as likely to work against you, as the "it's from their server so I didn't distribute it" technicality is to work for you... Mandatory disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.

jillyboel 2y ago
Start with suing the minecraft wiki then I guess Also you should probably advice mojang to put some authentication on their download URLs, which have been publicly documented for more than a decade by now. There is no login prompt. This project is over a year old. You are just misinterpreting the situation. This is like threatening to sue Mozilla because you can use Firefox to click on a download button, or Microsoft because double clicking on an exe on Windows runs the application.
- immibis 2y ago
  ... no, it is not like that, and I can't help you.
  - jillyboel 2y ago
    Good thing no one is asking you for "help". You're the one threatening FUD without anyone asking for it. Go bother someone else with your nonsense, lol.