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Re: The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]

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This was fine when N = 28. Now it's life of the author plus 95 so there is almost no possibility of anything released in your lifetime to be a part of the public domain before you die.

A british man predicted this was going to happen nearly two centuries ago. His address to the courts are worth reading in their entirety, it contains everything we need to know about copyright. https://www.thepublicdomain.org/2014/07/24/macaulay-on-copyr... > At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. [...] Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. > Men very different from the present…

Wonderful reference, thank you! I'm tempted to return to my notes and write an essay on this.

Re: The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]

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Where did that come from? 'You aren't allowed to prevent others from sharing this thing' is completely different from 'you have to share this thing'. 'Everyone is allowed to share everything' is a freedom, not a restriction. Whether or not it's a freedom people should have is a difficult question to answer because we don't know what the modern world would be like without copyright (I expect creators would try and get…

People have always been allowed to share their own things; what you're demanding is the sharing of other people's things. It's not piracy if the owner chooses to share.

People are not allowed to share the copies they possess. That's the restriction.

Re: The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]

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It's solved, full write-up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MinecraftUnlimited/comments/1cvo5py... Tl:dr; It was a release file for their Minecon event. It was never meant to be public. Obsessing over a password protected in a company's S3 bucket is weird and crosses many limits.

I guess only boxpig41 knows what else was protected that caused them to replace the file just to avoid the chance that the real password might get out and those might be unlocked, though at this point I’m assuming those encrypted files are gone or are no longer important.

This is true.

Re: The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]

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Minecraft (java edition) has been decompiled, modded with different launchers and recompiled since ages. The reason you need a "launcher" is because for some reason Minecraft's jar file doesn't have a way of downloading all the assets Minecraft needs in order to run.

Re: The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]

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It's solved, full write-up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MinecraftUnlimited/comments/1cvo5py... Tl:dr; It was a release file for their Minecon event. It was never meant to be public. Obsessing over a password protected in a company's S3 bucket is weird and crosses many limits.

I see you haven’t stumbled across the Minecraft community much, because this weirdness is just every day for them.

Take for example, the infamous 2B2T Minecraft server.

Exploits and game breaking mechanics by virtually impossible to discover bugs, and the no rule against hacking and cheating, have led to things people didn’t think were even possible in Minecraft over the servers ~15 year history.

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