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Minecraft Creator To Protest SOPA

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by Jim Reilly on January 13, 2012 at 01:16 PM
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Markus "Notch" Persson said today he will take down Minecraft.net and Mojang.com on January 18 in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act.

He did not give any indication how long the protest will last. The bill would allow content creators to censor websites they feel are infringing on their content. Notch said one of the big reasons Minecraft has been so successful was from people posting screenshots of the game and videos on YouTube,

The version of Minecraft playable on PC through Minecraft.net will be unavailable during the protest, however downloaded copies will still be.

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  • by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 01:51 PM
    I wish I had a worthy pc so I could play this game. Although with Skyrim in my hands adding this game would make it official that I'd have no life.
  • by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 01:58 PM

    that silly

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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 01:59 PM
    I don't know why these publishers are pissed over free advertising. Notch has the right idea.
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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 02:15 PM
    I'm glad Notch is protesting it. And if it passes, I'm glad that he has already made sure that we can continue to make Minecraft videos and pictures by putting into the EULA of Minecraft.
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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 02:15 PM
    Seems like everyone is using January 18th as their day to protest SOPA. I saw on Facebook that some developer would be taking down their beta on that day. Also, Anonymous was tweeting that they would not tweet anything on that day.
  • by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 02:32 PM

    Minecraft, Google, Facebook, and other major sites are all going on protest that day! I think that for many ppl (business tycoons, etc) the Apocalypse has been re-scheduled early this year!

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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 02:41 PM
    Awesome! The more businesses we can have protesting this thing the better.
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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 02:57 PM

    Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan i sooooooooo wanted to play this game

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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 02:59 PM
    Good, the more people protest about this, the more likely it is that it won't pass.
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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 03:10 PM

    yeah! fight the power!

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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 03:25 PM
    one word, zeitgeist.....
  • by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 04:02 PM

    no more sopa!

    go Notch!

    (good thing I got the downloaded version.) ;)

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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 04:05 PM
    ALLRIGHT!! F*K UP SOPA!!!
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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 04:17 PM

    Good for him.  Way to take a stand in a big way.

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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 04:44 PM

    good thing i've got a downloaded version...

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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 04:45 PM

    Wow, that's hardcore. It's for a good cause, though, I guess.

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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 05:25 PM

    This will make some people mad.

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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 05:34 PM

    Sucks I cant play that day

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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 05:36 PM

    Good. SOPA needs to be stopped. Gets the point across.

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    by Friday, January 13, 2012 at 06:00 PM

    Very interesting, and since downloads will be up I assume sales will still be enabled too so they aren't really costing themselves money (in fact they will probably save some money on bandwidth, heh) but at the same time making a bold act in the process.  This obviously isn't an option for a lot of companies that don't support SOPA, but I hope it catches on as much as it can.

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