Minecraft: Difference between revisions

|Microsoft issued a DMCA takedown notice to a developer who created MC.JS, a JavaScript-based browser version of Minecraft hosted on GitHub.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Maxwell |first=Andy |date=September 1, 2019 |title=Microsoft Puts Blocks On In-Browser Minecraft Clone |url=https://torrentfreak.com/microsoft-puts-blocks-on-in-browser-minecraft-clone-190831/ |access-date=Feb 10, 2026 |website=Torrent Freak |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260215012038/https://torrentfreak.com/microsoft-puts-blocks-on-in-browser-minecraft-clone-190831/ |archive-date=15 Feb 2026}}</ref> The notice cited copyright infringement, trademark violations, and unauthorized use of Minecraft's imagery and textures, resulting in the project being removed from GitHub. An archived snapshot of the page shows that the only infringing contents were referring to itself as a "Minecraft clone" and using a singular texture from the game,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tominous |title=MC.JS Github page |url=https://github.com/ideaplexus/mc.js/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125143334/https://github.com/ideaplexus/mc.js/ |archive-date=Nov 25, 2020 |access-date=Feb 10, 2026 |website=[[GitHub]]}}</ref> both of which could have easily been requested to be removed.<!-- I find it odd that IA has a snapshot of the game from AFTER the takedown... -->