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Turn Off the Lights, Get Nagged to Buy New Hardware: The Nest Upsell Problem
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“Private Minecraft Servers Are Illegal”: A Bad Legal Argument, and a Missed Opportunity to Teach Kids Linux

Adam Noah05 mins

If you run a personal Minecraft server for your family the way I do, you may have seen the recent headlines: during a hearing on California’s Protect Our Games Act, a lobbyist for the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) told lawmakers that private Minecraft servers are “illegal,” “not in any way affiliated with Microsoft,” and effectively…

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