The Story of MinecraftForFree.com
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ต.ค. 2021
- There was once a website that hosted the FULL game of Minecraft for free. What happened in the end is just crazy.
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I think courts should be able to have three verdicts:
1. Innocent
2. Guilty
3. We defer to the results of a judicial duel in Quake.
There are actually 3 verdicts in Court normally
@@markvlogandgaming1133 whats the third
@@DELETEDUNUSED sus
@@DELETEDUNUSED Defer to the results of a judicial duel in Quake.
@@DELETEDUNUSED cant tell you if you wanted to serve on a jury. Sorry.
Notch: "No, I kinda like winning."
That makes me laugh.
for some reason in this clip he sounds like Dream
@@cool_bug_facts _Dream is Notch_
@@MOnkEh. dream is secretly swedish
@@xh4rmy I thought he sounded more like Iskall. Might be because he's also Swedish
ahahaha yes
this just proves that the people behind minecraft used to be actual people that were deep inside just gamers and not just a big company that would file a lawsuit as soon as the site was put up
The reality of life is most of the stuff you enjoy, will be bastardized and owned by people who are only interested in the bottom dollar. If they can sell it to you, they will.
the vertical integration of the gaming industry has been a disaster for gaming
i mean microsoft is in charge of minecraft now dont blame mojang
It happened to all the old favorites.
Still not as cool as bay city rollers
I feel for all the kids who came home from school that day and lost their only way of playing Minecraft lol.
But a battle in history happened
It was pretty devastating
That was me
BUT THEY STILL HAVE ESO
I feel for all the kids who came home from school that day and lost their only way of playing Minecraft lol.
Old internet days were insane, a pirated game site group challenging the creator for a Quake 3 match and actually getting it, just so ridiculous haha
This sounds really interesting, can you show me something on where I can read up on this?
@@VicerimusMortem the video?
@@jinstronda2571 Oh, it's a video? Sure, yeah.
Honestly more things should be settled by duels for fun like this
The transition from the internet and more specifically gaming mimicking the lan party style to the rank/elo centric grind of todays games is crazy.
When he said “its a shame we didn’t win” and notch immediately says “No I kinda like winning” has me dying
Lmao
reminds me of a norm joke
@@staff97 rip
@@Red-jl7jj through blood and bones
XD
This shows Notch really did have a great deal of integrity as a developer
In the early days of development, i would agree with that statement. But if you’ve ever truly watched a video/documentary about Notch you would realize he became very self centered and obsessed with monetary gains. The facts are out there…
Great integrity until he outed himself as a fascist
@@grxy5924so exactly like modern mojang? except we wouldve gotten actually good updates
@@grxy5924fud by trannoids.
Shame he has no integrity as a person
I wish more developers had fun with their games like Notch.
ESO EXISTS
I wish more developers had fun with their games like Notch.
I wish more developers had fun with their games like Notch.
relogic is still here
i wish i had a father
Notch: You know I could sue you, right?
Team Avolition: Yes, but how about a game of Quake 3 Arena instead?
Notch: Deal
underrated comment lmao
Virgin: lawsuits
Chad: Quake
when you find out how expensive lawsuits are, you'll definitely know why he opted for a match XD
@@sonicmeerkat it does cost a lot, but it IS fun though to fight over copyright. this should totally be the new standard.
@UChaw8zugGiWE3z9ET6Ul9Vw they lost and made a song for notch correct?
Imagine Quake 3 was the only way to win arguments
“You killed my wife!”
“I challenge you to a game of Quake III.”
9999999
There would be 1000x more lawyers in the world.
He got to kill her because he beat her in quake 3
It's like saying I was frozen today
It's an argument winner
*loses*
“well, I suppose I forgive you, wanna get some coffee?”
I remember doing this thing with my local library that said we could all play minecraft and we played this. Before this finding out what minecraft was and begging my mom to get it for me. But the 20 ish dollars then was a lot for a game for us. So finding any way to play it was such a joy. Once this got shut down I got so sad but I loved every second of it. Now Minecraft’s changed and not the same anymore. But I and everyone else grew up and changed too. I just miss those simple times…
Someone has revived it and updated it to 1.8. Eaglercraft is pretty cool man.
You can play any version of Minecraft, including the one that you were playing all the way back then, if you don't like how it changed, just play it in a version that you like
@@flippedhat2155 dude I play eaglercraft on the school chrome book
I still play minecraft to this day with my partner. I cut contact with the people I used to play with as kids for personal reasons, and the others during middle and high school all grew up or we grew apart. I have new friends and a partner now to play with now, and hopefully kids to teach the game to as well. That's life I guess.
This is what happens when you have a passionate game developer who is ACTUALLY passionate about playing games spearheading a project.
"it is a shame we didn't win"
"No I kinda like winning."
I'm using this line so much from now on
He absolutely murdered them with that line lol
rofl on that
666th like
i dont.. get it
@@scribblecloud I think its funny because Avolition tried to make Notch pity them. But just failed miserably and got stepped on even harder.
The fact that Notch named his livestream “Fighting for our honor” is hilarious
LMFAO right 😭 warrior vibes
Minecraft For Free Was Collapsed By Notch And How Just Angry About Avolition
@@silas537 "LFMAO" and "😭" was unnecessary and cringe
@@capybara9521 You use your freedom of speech well.
honor or death
that was really good story telling and narration. definitely subscribing for more videos like this. you kept me immersed in the story, and even if this were just an audio clip I could've pictured exactly what you were describing. 10/10
song choices are amazing! loved that you pulled from the guild wars 2 soundtrack
It’s actually incredible that Notch agreed to that quake battle so quickly. Legendary shit
@Islamic.Bruh.Moments same
@Islamic.Bruh.Moments It's crack for me
chad move
@Islamic.Bruh.Moments im addicted to speid
@Islamic.Bruh.Moments im addicted to meth
damn. I remember playing Minecraft for free until eventually begging my mom to buy Minecraft for me. the reason? because I tried building a glow stone portal to the aether and concluded that the reason it didn't work was because I needed to pay for the full game.
I discovered I couldn't do that after I watched Tobuscus do it years ago, in 2013. Being 12 I didn't know I had to install a mod at the time for it. Lol
The reason for my first minecraft user's name (before the user got stolen), the name being "DinosaurREXo" was that i thought minecraft naturally had dinosaurs in it. But it was from a mod. So when i first opened minecraft i was sad to see no dinosaurs.
Still makes more sense than me thinking a grenade's explosion was the size of a nuclear explosion.
you are technically correct, you can't use mods without downloading it, which requires you own it
@@thepwrtank18 Thank you for figuring it out you are such a smart person!
This brings back so much nostalgia my guy. I can't can't believe I use to play MC creative mode only on a website... People had such crazy builds back then too. Wild how far MC has come.
Nice editing skills for the video man!
Funny to see how Notch took to the challenge.
I really like when you queued the music for the transitions, job well done!
Dylan: "Battle me in Quake 3 Arena"
Notch: _So you have chosen death_
ngl, that was a cool way to settle a fight.
omae wa mou shindeiru
@@adilmohiuddin930 NANI !
@mini Gimp fox! Are you a Linux user?
@@SuperNova-nr3tb I have the silly hobby to recommend fun-youtuber to people,
just cause i like spreading fun and education. Want some?
Dylan is VERY lucky that this happened before Notch sold the rights to the game, because Microsoft may not have been so forgiving and have handled that situation the same way Notch did
Microsoft are a bunch of non consumer friendly shills.
@@SlavicUnionGaming
I can no longer play xbox online games, because they stopped allowing credit cards outside my country, and my country doesnt even have online credit cards
@@salahabdalla368 you use the credit card that you use to pay for things
@@newrecemendions6378 right this guy must pay with rocks
@@newrecemendions6378 ah yes, as supposed to credit cards that you DON'T use to pay with
One of my favorite minecraft story's ever. Thanks for this awesome video!
I played Minecraft on this site back in 2011. It was a big part of my childhood, and was sad to see it gone years later.
the fact that notch accepted to play a game of quake with someone who pirated his game is pretty amazing.
Thank you, this made my day!
They didn't pirate the game they made a website for people to pirate the game without downloading it
@@Quackra Copyright trolls are happy when people confuse 'downloading' with 'uploading'. This paves way for more outrageous statements like "torrents or not, piracy is piracy".
I know right it’s sick
@@crptic9925 yoo
@@roasted.cheese hey man nice to see you again
How come I never came across this as a kid? Good thing I had a cousin lend his account.
@Dоnt Rеаd Му РrоfiIе Рiсturе 🅥 who ever reads his comment dont do it trust me
I used this site, lol, I'm feeling old
@@SultanGamer124_GD Yeah he even told you guys
Well account sharing is illegal too...
@@2jz735 yep, but I never knew the password and he rarely used the account. I already bought a personal account a few months back.
Was just thinking about how I used to play on this site today and remembered your channel, cool to see a documentation of something I had to put in work to follow real time back in the day.
i really enjoy watching these types of vids however salc1's voice is very calming!
"Hire a dubstep artist to make a song in notch's honor"
What a deal
Wow are you that guy who solves mysteries?
yes, he can solve any mistery with the power of his stand, 「Moody Blues」
@@OpinionThief wow are you scp-106 buy with diavolo hair badly photoshopped?
@@bombintheseeinq yes
"It's a shame we didn't win"
"No, I kinda like winning"
😂😂😂
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@@pattyryopotybuttongamer3063 thanks mate
@@pattyryopotybuttongamer3063 cheers pal, i'll try not to screw this up
@@pattyryopotybuttongamer3063 thanks
sO fUnNY...
Team Avolition dueling Notch and Jeb in Quake was INSANE to me at the time. Absolutely nuts seeing the figurative "gods" and "devils" of Minecraft hash it out on Quake...
Avolition always was and always will be my favorite Minecraft TH-cam content.
I remember building a oak house and learning the ropes. What great times those were! You reminded me of everything. The website led me to find cracked mc and the servers associated with cracked
And then you proceeded to get hooked on Crack…
*No? Just me?…*
Ohhhh that’s why one of the FOV selections is “Quake Pro”, Because Notch is literally a quake pro
Also as far as i remember, Minecraft uses the Falldamage Sound from Quake 3
Holy shit…
oh my god bro
bro is fucking legened to poaint thi s aout
Bro cracked the DaVinci code
Imagine Dylan was so devestated over this loss that he, ever since that day has been playing Quake 3 so he would never lose again.
Sounds like an appropriate villain arc
and then Notch listens to pigstep and uses the power of friendship
And this is how rocket jump ninja came into existence
@@conk9990 I have the silly hobby to recommend fun-youtuber to people,
just cause i like spreading fun and education. Want some?
@@mactroiy7452 I have the silly hobby to recommend fun-youtuber to people,
just cause i like spreading fun and education. Want some?
The music is great, wow, a thrilling, and a bit sad story! but atleast Minecraft still lives on! good video man!
this is literally how i started playing minecraft, ive never seen it talked about since then. it was so awesome.
Notch was actually pretty smart with this. By befriending the pirates he got the site down much quicker than by fighting them in court, and gained good Internet reputation for himself and his game at the same time. More or less the same way Gaben sent the HL2 leaker to jail by pretending to offer him a job.
Wait WHAT is that last sentence??
@@brancellbooks Sorry english is not my first language, but I was talking about the Half-Life 2 leaker from like 15 years ago.
@@jesusmgw I didn’t mean to imply you weren’t clear with your language; you were perfectly understandable! I just haven’t ever heard of that story. Would you mind sharing a bit?
@@brancellbooks if i remember correctly, valve offered the hacker a job in a sting operation where the FBI was to arrest him, however the hacker lived in germany at the time, and the german government heard about it so they arrested him first
@@heyasucks angela merkel in action
This is such a crazy story. I remember hearing it back in the complexgaming vc from storm himself. Ridiculous
no replies 🤔
same
Mad stuff
New video plsss
Horigon
As someone who isn’t too materialistic, if I got much more than I need and I was in possession of something like this, I would definitely be handling situations like this.
Listening to this at work , Realizing you're playing Kirby music in the background at 3:30 and get absolute lost in a core memory of playing Fountain of dreams and amazing mirror on my GBA
brb cloning Hytale then challenging Simon from Hypixel to a TF2 MGE match
Thats if you don’t die before it comes out
Oh hi yahi
On Granary too!
verified man
Do it.
“Educational use only” is what I used as an excuse to my teachers when they caught me playing Minecraft for free during class in middle school
Should've used education edition
@@pepsiman4708 didnt exist at the time
@@lewisgamer637 oh yeah right. Back in class, we used to play minecraft education edition during class, and they couldn't do much because it was "educational"
@@pepsiman4708 Minecraft: Education Edition was released November, 2016. Launched just a couple weeks before Minecraft 1.11 was.
No, it didn't exist at the time.
@@pantallahueso didn't you see? I said oh yeah right to let him know that I know it didn't exist at the time.
It's really amazing how Notch accepted the duel. A true gamer dude.
I wish more situations could be solved like this.
I used to watch avo a lot when I was younger but I didn't realize just how much of a rich history they have.
an extremely rich and gaming one
can u post again peter
Hi Peter!
Post again or gay
Is that Peterscraps in the comments?
Glad that in the end, Notch got his wish far a Quake 3 match.
Gosh, I forgot all about how Minecraft used to be a game you could play in-browser...it's been like 10 years, and java plugins on browsers has only been gone for like 3 years...I forgot all about that stuff.
I also laugh, because I initially was given a SP Minecraft file back in high school (I think it was just a paid version my buddy bought, but just gave me the game file)...and that was the only way (at first) I was able to play Minecraft.
I would eventually buy the full game and make an account when Mojang finally released the Minecraft full-game cards at the stores, and I immediately snagged one (because it was also cheaper at that point...the original price was steep for the lack of content at the time).
Paid 26 bucks for it...one of the best 26 bucks I've ever spent.
Cheers. Cool vid. Brought back great memories.
Tbh you deserve 300 subs
This is so awesome, great video! I remember watching that quake video by avo years ago as a kid, and thinking wtf is going on
Hi
@@delta82488 hi
The cries of joy and dismay when Storm _finally_ got a fist in Notch is easily my favourite part of those videos. He was trying for what felt like _hours._
TheMisterPoggic
i don't think dylan realized how lucky he was, because he could have been IMMEDIATELY included in the lawsuit.
Yeah, that was pretty epic of notch, most game owners would just include them in a lawsuit.
In fairness i believe they made it clear in their challenge email to Notch that they would be taking the website down regardless. A good call to first start with "we surrender" because it made it easier to talk like friends not enemies.
Dylan was a 15 year old with a helicopter. Also the only person to buy Reliant for it’s $900. Dylan was extremely lucky…
He would have been taken court and end up like that one VTuber
@@bananaguns766 as they should. The theft of intellectual property is a very serious crime.
Dude I never understood the context behind that video on the team avo channel thank you so much lmao
Ah, settling legal disputes with quake. Those were simpler times.
They should settle legal disputes with how fast you beat Armstrong in mgr
@@BuffGuitarist naw, they should settle legal disputes with an among us round
I wish we still lived in those times
@@Emily_Bondevik_Official too late for that
@@Emily_Bondevik_Official This would convince me to never break a single law, including jaywalking. Playing among us is a fate worse than having Bubba as a roommate.
There was also a guy that said: *"I really like the game but lack the money to buy it. I thought I might at least ask for a free account before piracy,"*
Notch said: *"Just pirate it. If you still like it when you can afford it in the future, buy it then. Also don't forget to feel bad. ;)"*
omfg notch
This is the definition of giga-chad. Consider many AAA games now is a bomb.
Notch is a gigachad
Chad
if only more game creators were so good
This is actually so awesome. Notch is a cool guy in the end.
Just wait til’ Notch realizes about eaglercraft
Man, everything about this video is nostalgic. The free minecraft, the mouse with the yellow circle thingy on it, the incredibly low fps
Fraps and bandicam. The days when screen recording wasn't free.
@@acenio654 unregistered hypercam 2
Even the website :(
bethesda was scared to play quake with notch because he was too good
I am pretty sure, Bethesda, being the sister company (both owned by Zenimax) of id Software (creator of the Quake series) could organize some Quake pros...
I just find Notchs choice of ingame model funny..
I find the irony is a Bethesda tried to sue Mojang for Scrolls and then years later both companies will be owned by Microsoft
Imagine a alternative universe where Todd how Howard himself challenge notch
They went cold war on his ass and realised noone would survive that showdown
Man what a memory, I remember playing Minecraft on my own computer around version 1.4.4 and I faintly remember it being available on browser.
Good times !
How the wait for Hytale continues..
This was my first ever minecraft experience, I will never forget the underground hotel I made, I struggle to hold back tears when thinking about it
3:37 “You can’t just copyright a word.”
Fine Bros: *Allow us to introduce ourselves.*
HA
They lost tho
@@tetronym4549 You know who succeeded where they failed? Sky™
@@setsers1 Its a hugely bullshit thing tho. Since it was Mojang that was trying to copyright a word.
Finebros tried to Trademark a word, which is something else.
Storm: "It's a shame that we didn't win.
Notch: "No, I kinda like winning.
Spoken like a true gaming champion.
1k like lol
Notch Nonuts
real ones remember playing the Demo on the old minecraft website
This takes me back. This is literally where I first played Minecraft because I was too scared to pay for anything online as a kid. When the site went down, I was saddened by it because I had to say goodbye to my world and all the creations I built.
Days later, I got a copy of Minecraft, and was relieved that the copy of my world is saved because of Java.
Thank you for this video.
that comment was a rollercoaster of emotions
Rest in alive.
@@redguywithatophat1900 R.I.A.
@@user-uo8ny1kj4c Yes, it was a rollercoaster of emotions.
@@victorplayz_ that is true, it was a roller coaster of emotions.
Reminds me of that one time, when my parents bought me the game, but my friends were still pirating. So they asked me to send them the game files, turns out you already had to have a mojang account to play the full version, so all of them though the demo for 3 in-game days was something like "Build the best thing you can within the time limit, and if we like it, you get to play multiplayer"
hey
@@heyn oh hey isaac short video youtuber with an epic anime profile picture
Jump drive multiplayer was a neat thing me and my friends had discussed, but we were all programmers, so nobody was willing to plug a flash drive into their rigs.
Hah
Lmao
Me and my friend would play so much Minecraft on that site. We’d do lan worlds in the middle school computer labs and save our worlds into a flash drive.
This is the best video ive seen all year
I loved it when Notch made a post talking about the bethesda situation and at the end of it he said something like _"now I'm gonna go play some Scrolls. And by Scrolls, of course, I mean Skyrim"._
lmao
In one tweet, Notch completely annihilated any possible doubt that Bethesda might have had a point that another game company having a game called Scrolls would cause a confusion with Elder Scrolls. Absolutely no one thinks "Skyrim" when they hear "Scrolls"
I get way more confused with The Outer Worlds and The Outer Wilds
Imagine an alternate timeline where they won, getting one of the rarest capes in the game.
If only 🥲
I still remember when I discovered you could install forge on top of the minecraft demo and all the demo limitations would be removed (except for multiplayer support).
I remember playing on this website when I was 9-10. I remember downloading all types of different free versions on my family’s desktop. Life and the internet was so much simpler back then.
Respect to Notch’s challenge: no lawsuits, no fist fights, no insults, just some gamers battling it out for copyrights to their games.
I remember the days of cool wholesome notch, before he went off the deep end after letting his money get to his head. His Fedora and neckbeard should have been a warning sign.
@@R2Bl3nd Notch is basically what happens a neckbeard gets rich
Yeah respect but also lost my actual respect long ago
Everyone says “we need more people like him” but never says “we need to be like him”
Everybody also says this.
Exactly 💯
we should not be like him.
@@wbg5586 they are talking about the old notch lmao
@@FunAngelo2005 context?
i mean it's probably due to the times and how Minecraft wasn't that big of a game as it is now, but it's kinda nice knowing that creators of games were actual gamers and not y'know....just moneymakers. I imagine now there's a big email system where Jeb's emails are first checked to see relevancy and importance before they're sent to the big man himself and Jeb probably doesn't actually game so we'll probably never see this happen again. Tho challenging Notch is definitely still an option of course
you’re probably right about automated emails, but Jeb was the carry for notch’s team for this match, saying he doesn’t game is wild
I remember playing this version of minecraft in middle school in the computer lab with all my friends through lan, it was actually awesome lmao
"You can't just copyright a word!"
The FineBros would like to have a word with you
And the c*ndy crush people
And sky
Interesting reaction.
Classic TH-cam drama. Bet a lot of the children watching this havent heard of that one.
sky tv would like to have a word with you*
If only creators were as chill as Notch, I'd like to pirate a game and challenge them to a match of Halo 3 instead.
Based
notch is transphobic
@@tamny9963 i dont see a problem
@@tamny9963 What’s the deal with that? Can someone fill me in on the details im a stone and dont understand.
@@tamny9963 lol k
Wow. Crazy how this situation reminded of 12 year old me around 2012 not knowing any better.
Downloading a ‘free’ version of Minecraft was how I got introduced to the game. I remembered playing it a couple of years, and it would automatically update. But when the update with the horses first came out, I couldn’t play it unless I had the actual game. It would also stop updating too. So I just stopped playing.
I only started playing Minecraft again last year. This time, bought it on my own. I felt like I’ve missed out a lot! But I’m remembering to love playing it again!
This is how me and all my buddies used to play in elementary school. I’ll never forget; my 5th grade teacher had a “ticket” system where you got 1 ticket if you did something good/got a question right. Me and the guys started selling gum, 1 stick for one ticket. By the end of the year, we saved up enough to buy 1 full week of visits to the computer lab, 1:30-2:30, and we’d play on this site. Thanks for bringing back the memories man
Seriously, Notch was a pretty good sport about this whole thing since they pirated his game. Glad he was though, because that match and dubstep track are legendary.
He realized piracy isnt bad for him
@@DonDadda45 Plus it's a kid. He probably thought it was an adult who did it until they started talking and tried to be more lax because it'd be absolutely evil and idiotic to sue a child over copyright law when they have zero idea what's going on in the world to begin with. Let alone how copyright law works.
@@lucifer2b666 Isn't Notch also part of a Pirate Party?
@@GumSkyloard I'm not sure if he still is today, but I'm pretty sure he was a member when all of this went down. However, despite its name, the pirate party doesn't appear to promote software piracy (which would be promoting theft).
@@lucifer2b666 and the fact that these guys where doing that 100% Free and not actually scamming people whit a pirated version probably helped a lot
This took an extremely hard turn out of nowhere. Too funny
I personally remember the official demo of Minecraft, and me and friends would have building contests
The fact you made this a 7 minute video and not an unnecessarily massive documentary. +1 sub.
literally his entire thing
@@Orincaby I would 100% listen to a full documentary of this in a heartbead. I love video essays.
This is literally a ducumentary lol
@@asaasa7900 I’ll recommend emplemon then
@@zherean42069 Keywords: "unnecessarily massive"
i remember playing this in the school library
What's a library?
@@qx4n9e1xp a room where books are kept
@@jcpenny8399 what's a room?
@@largepoodle6036 a book where libraries are kept
@@knightlyfiver9733 what's a book?
Special java-enabled web browser playing an old version of minecraft. Boom: where there's a will, there's a way
remember these days where i can play the demo on the site.
sad that is no longer possible
The good ol' days of Minecraft FULL game no virus 100% free.
@Dоnt Rеаd Му РrоfiIе Рiсturе 🅥 ok I wont + your’e gay + you r white
@@Nexpeon none of those are real insults and you’re just being homophobic
@@Nexpeon +ratio
@@lukeyey +mald
@@katiequeen7225 Twitter user....can’t take sarcasm ay?
The site didn't host any data. It used Mojang's servers, just like a legitimate game client. On Reddit, Notch confirmed that the site was not illegal or against the TOS explicitly. Copyright wasn't a factor because no copyrighted work was being hosted.
I'm sure the reason for Minecraft's updated terms of service, along with requiring you to accept the terms when hosting a server, was partially inspired by this debacle. I believe that the reason why it was not considered illegal was due to the fact that the site was not distributing anything that was copyrighted. I'm pretty sure that it downloaded the legitimate client from Mojang's servers and just tricked it into thinking that the user had a valid login.
The client, just being a simple launcher that downloaded the actual game files from the Mojang servers, meant that there was no copyrighted information or data being hosted. The files were only downloaded upon the initial launch, and during any subsequent updates. The game files were stored on your machine after being downloaded from the servers, so it's not like the data had to be re-downloaded every time.
Still, Minecraft for Free accounted for more than 10% of Mojang's server traffic, from what I remember Dylan telling me about the cease and desist email.
isn't it what makes that game illegal
It's not legit,ot used Mojang servers and probably didn't have license from Notch.
Your comment got liked 69 times.
@@pustota7254 Nice
@@user-ch6iv2bn2j He didn't have a license but he didn't need one, the terms of service weren't explicitly forbidding something like this, they were updated afterward but it was an amicable request that was handled amicably by Dylan. The main complaint was that the site accounted for over 10% of Minecraft's server traffic. Source: I've been friends with Dylan for the past ~10 years.
This brought back memories of playing Minecraft in a browser, thank you for making me feel old...
I remember getting on that. There was no anti-piracy trick, it was just there. But when it was shut down, I remember there was a message that said how it was illegal and therefore shut down. The URL was there but the message replaced the game.
I remember playing in minecraft for free when I was 11! Even though it was a pirated version, that's what got me into minecraft for years to come. If it was not for that website I might not have ever played the game, as my parents were not able to pay for random video games.
Same!😅
As much as I get Mojang not wanting their game to be pirated for free. If I didn't play this pirated version as a kid I would have never gotten into Minecraft. Every bit of money that I ever gave Mojang for Minecraft and various adjacent products can be traced back to me playing this pirated version.
I get pirating is bad. But giving free access to something can open the door to more money down the road. It's not just a loss for them.
Pfft, Mineshafter was my go to for Minecraft at school
Eyyyyy shorthax
Omg yes😂😂😂
Yeap. Me too untill i startet using tlauncher
yeah, really epic
The website is still up to this day lol
but i don't know if it still works
Notch: Ha, no more free Minecraft!
EaglerCraft: Allow me to introduce myself.
Eaglercraft was *after* Microsoft bought minecraft.
oh damn, I forgot I followed this back in the day cause I was a fan of Team Avolition. This just woke up some long gone memories lol.
“There is no Easter Bunny”
“There is no Tooth Fairy”
“And there is no way to play Minecraft for free”
TLauncher: *Laughing*
Well to be fair Tlauncher has all the versions, mods and multiplayer but using shaders on it just destroys my game.
Crystal launcher mplaucher
Android users: “pathetic”
Not if you're on android
browser minecraft classic
Used to play this during IT class in primary chool. Didnt take to long till a majority of my class played together. I vaguely remember being able to type already existing usernames, which came with downloaded skins.
Good times.
Holy crap, i completely forgot about this website. I used it a few times before i bought the real version back when i was probably 7 years old. Bringing back memories
I played this with all of primary school everyday, good times
Notch might want to thank those guys for hosting that pirate site. If little 11 year old me back in 2010 had not gotten to try out Minecraft, I probably never would have begged my dad to buy it. Im sure there's plenty of people who have a similar story
I just realised your pfp isnt a humanoid creature, its just a jungle animal. Now i am not afraid
That's what demos are for...
@@RikatittarOfSkryre lighten up
@@anonymgrill6695 the demo didn't get me hooked, the ability to play multiplayer with my friends on cracked servers did
@@RikatittarOfSkryre Wrong, You can't steal a digital product in the same way you can steal a physical one.
These chads just got an email about an incoming lawsuit and invoked trial by combat through a 3v3 match in Quake. And the other side agreed. Absolute madlads lmao
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So fun little story, this is how I started playing Minecraft. Two weeks into ver 1.2.5 was when I started. Played it for a month, and that's when it disappeared; it was around the time of my birthday so I justified the purchase at that time after begging my parents for it as the bday gift.