The Protect Our Games Act–a piece of legislation endorsed by the Stop Killing Games movement–has been voted down at the California State Senate. However, one of the most noteworthy incidents from this legislative battle was a comment made by an Entertainment Software Association lobbyist who claimed that Minecraft and Call of Duty private community servers are "illegal."
Jennifer Gibbons, the ESA's vice president of state government affairs, told lawmakers that community servers for Minecraft and Call of Duty games are both breaking the law.
"They’re illegal," said Gibbons. "They are not in any way affiliated with Microsoft. Microsoft, for Minecraft, has gotten a lot of criticism because of those community servers not employing the same safety standards that Microsoft does on their Minecraft servers … In fact, we consider it piracy. We have … two pending lawsuits against private servers right now, and the United States Trade Representative (USTR) in their Notorious Mark
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