Entertainment Software Association doubled down on community servers being illegal In a statement to PC Gamer, Entertainment Software Association wrote: "Private servers infringe on the intellectual property (IP) rights of game publishers. Publishers reserve the right to exercise their rights against them."

@theESA @pcgamer I can’t believe we’re letting the future of gaming be decided by a bunch of geriatric boomers who have never touched a controller in their life

@theESA @pcgamer Private servers don’t infringe on the IP they just want to charge us for expanding their game for them in a manner that they don’t see money coming in🤷🏻‍♂️ I genuinely pray these corpos fail with this concord dev mindset

@theESA @pcgamer ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!1111

@theESA @pcgamer its so over, i'm spending the next 1000 years in prison :^)

@theESA @pcgamer Thanks Stop killing games for drawing attention to private servers. Fuck you and everyone who signed that petition.

@theESA @pcgamer pay no attention to @/therealzinney in the replies, they're just being stupid

@theESA @pcgamer We can't profit or control these things so they are illegal. My ass, screw them for that

@theESA @pcgamer community servers are the only thing keeping older CoD games, which activision still sells on steam, safe and playable but sure, i'll just play official servers and get my computer nuked by the RCE exploits which Activision still refuses to patch

@theESA @pcgamer I think SKG should actually increase what they demand by 10 times -Permanent Retroactive Financial Protections -IP Forfeiture to a Public Trust of Abandoned Games -Open-Sourcing of Abandoned Games -Absolute Modding and Reverse-Engineering Immunity

@theESA @pcgamer i understand community servers being illegal for mmorpgs but minecraft? that game would be dead without community servers, what does she say after the clip

@theESA @pcgamer [Minecraft] Private servers infringe on the intellectual property rights of game publishers. If this were the case…why doesn't MMO makers go after private servers such? Oh right, company is long gone. @theESA; fan‑run private servers keep the game alive

Blizzard just murdered Classic+ this past year due to it being private servers. While this isn't what we're trying to stop - we're going for how this would've looked without World of Warcraft Classic... still... The game is old enough to vote. I think "intellectual property rights" are vastly too broad not to mention last like 7 times longer than they should, but if we can stop them killing games that's a good start.

@theESA @pcgamer This is a poor response to communities being built, friendships being created, and freedom. The Esa shows us their stance, and it seems they aren't fit to be in that position anymore. What must we do to replace our current officials for the @theESA ?

@theESA @pcgamer THEY ARE NOT ILLEGAL THEY ARE TALKING OUT OF THEIR ASSES

@theESA @pcgamer Are they saying that the best interests of the company is that nobody plays them with the tools they're given, because that's what it sounds like to me. Are they mentally challenged?

@theESA @pcgamer "Private servers infringe on the intellectual property (IP) rights of game publishers" Same would also count for Let's plays, but the ESA does not argue that Platforms like YT and Twitch should Delete all Videos. Also still to this day only Atlus and Nintendo did take down LPs

@theESA @pcgamer the fact these guys treat a company's IP in higher value that people's right to play what they want really shows what their actual goal is

@theESA @pcgamer Who is the ESA and what exactly do they do? I'm legitimately curious.

@theESA @pcgamer

@theESA @pcgamer we are ultra criminal underworld elite hackers for playing singleplayer minecraft (they technically create a private servers too)

@theESA @pcgamer BUT MOJANG SUPPORTS THE SERVERS

@theESA @pcgamer Couldn't private servers also mean singleplayer games? Technically with some games, you have to host your own game to play it, even if it's solo, so now are you just barring me from games entirely despite the TOS saying that's how it's intended? Good grief...

@theESA @pcgamer Should probably note all peer to peer games make all participants technically/temporarily count as servers too. So no more p2p games?

@theESA @pcgamer People should just stop buying games. Pirate every game. If buying a game doesn't give you ownership, then pirating is the only moral way to play games from these blood sucking parasites

@theESA @pcgamer What does ESA stand for again? The Epstein Software Association?

@theESA @pcgamer Angi-pricate servers is so retarded I can barely even think straight trying to comprehend it

@theESA @pcgamer I mean, look, I'm a diehard SKG supporter, but I think what they're saying here is "publishers overwhelmingly allow private servers, which is their right to allow or deny. but if the day ever came when a publisher demanded a private server be taken down, they'd be in the right."

@theESA @pcgamer Don't some of these games fucking promote private servers

@theESA @pcgamer My goodness these people.

@theESA @pcgamer The ESA's take is the stupidest god damn legal take I've seen since the last time I saw someone failing to understanding how fucked they were for cutting down a 150 year old peach tree on a property they didn't own. Even EA wouldn't swing for this kind of interpretation.

@theESA @pcgamer Someone should investigate if ESA is accepting bribes.

@theESA @pcgamer Private servers are a toolkit that was and should still be available to consumers You dumb ass boomers have no idea what you’re talking about or doing! This is abhorrent

@theESA @pcgamer Who?