• AeroLemming@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      That doesn’t matter. You don’t get to just unlitaterally revoke something people paid for because they didn’t want to sign up for an account at a company that was unrelated to Minecraft when they bought the game. This should be illegal.

      • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        What was the original license that people paid for? Is there anything in there that would protect them?

        • hglman@lemmy.ml
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          5 months ago

          Clearly not , which only makes the point. Consumer protection for digital products is weak and needs reform.

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          That doesn’t matter. If you buy a house and miss a sentence buried in page 2,784 of the agreement that says that the previous owner can arbitrarily decide to take the house back whenever they feel like it, that still won’t hold up in court. Digital products need to work the same way.

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      5 months ago

      I only saw the warning the first time it was announced, which I transfered over back then. But then I never heard of it again, so if someone happened to have been busy and missed it the first time it made headlines I could see how they could be caught off guard with how I completely forgot about it until it made headlines for it being discontinued.

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        For people that didn’t transfer right away, like me, I got so many emails telling me to transfer the account. So people that didn’t transfer right away, stil got plenty of notice