This may start with a short story about something that happened to me, but it is in NO WAY about what happened to me, I honestly don't care that it happened to me, since it IS against the rules. This blog addresses the fact that it IS against the rules, and its point is to bring the community's attention to it, I'm really curious to everyone's opinions. No, I am not out to change the site, I highly doubt that would be possible. Again, I just want to see people's ideas and try and provide possible explanations and bring up certain doubts and whatnot.

So, for over six months I have run a pretty successful server, with our ups and downs. I have put as much work into it as anyone who runs any other server. We are not Hamachi, we are not some other stupid Network setup, but we ARE cracked. Why? To pander to the many GREAT users who can't buy Minecraft for one reason or another. I was once that person, I had no way to buy online, but a friend finally purchased me the game, so I made my server cracked.

A few months into the time running the server (and full website and community along with it), I decided to upload the server to this site's server page. I remember quite clearly reading the submissions page, and it only warned against Hamachi servers, not cracked. Had it warned against cracked, I would not have uploaded it.(I've gotten different times from different Site Mods, and different times from my friends and users. So I don't even know anymore, though that's not the point of this post.)

Time goes on and all I do is bump the server once a day, keep it's information up-to-date, and occasionally post something in the forums or a blog. Then I get a notification that my server was removed due to the "no cracked servers" submission rule.

Ok, so they aren't allowed. A lot of people will just accept this and move on. Not me. Why? Well...

Why not allow cracked servers? They require the SAME amount of work that a normal server does to own and operate. They have the same ideas behind them as other servers do, and I know PLENTY of cracked servers that are better off than normal non-offline mode servers.

Is it because they don't want to endorse the use of cracked servers? Perhaps... but if this were truly the case, why would they allow you to post it in a forums section still on the site? So, it can't possibly be that. After recieving a reply to my inquiry, I have found this is their answer. However, Mojang themselves offers the ability to set a server to "Offline Mode", so it is a valid part of normal MC, thus being deserving of a place equal to any Online mode server.

Notch himself has stated more than once that pirating is ok, in more than one place and it is well known his stance on it. A big thanks goes out to Crimedog for giving me this link, where Notch himself says "Pirate it" when someone mentions they can't afford the game: NOTCH If the biggest name in Minecraft supports them, how can they be a bad thing for Minecraft?

This is pointless segregation, forcing owners of cracked servers to post in an inferior, lesser-known section for the exact same amount of work and creativity, as well as the same additions to the MC community. You could have a cracked server, and only get Premium users, and still be removed for being cracked.

Why are cracked servers targeted so harshly, when WAY more submission rules by other types of servers are broken and way easier to see (no illegal roleplaying, 100% your own content, etc.)

Blocking Cracked servers is truly comparable to blocking anything that someone used WorldEdit to help them with. It's silly and pointless.

And if they still want to separate them, fine by me, but make it another "servers" section, don't take someone's equal work and shove it into a hole because it's got ONE different setting. I have been sent about 5 different server listing sites that do this, and simply state "While we do not endorse Cracked users, we do recognize that Mojang has put this setting in there, and that Offline servers are legit servers." And, in other places. they put up multiple disclaimers saying that they do not support pirating Minecraft, they just support that there are servers that do allow cracked users.

Also, PMC claims to not do anything about what goes on ON the servers. Being a cracked server only effects what's happening ON a server, so this rule somewhat clashes with another statement.

To continue my support of the cracked servers of the world,I would like to bring up another point that has crossed my mind, how do they know if you're actually a cracked server? What if you simply don't state the server's offline mode status here on their site, and just upload it? Surely the server would go unknown until it was reported, or someone who could remove it joined your server to see if it was cracked or not. But, doing that would also invalidate the "we are not responsible for what goes on on the actual servers" rule, if they did log on just for that. So, that must mean you can simply not state its status and you should be golden.

Or, could you create a sort of "HUB server" that was premium only, forcing offline users to connect directly to each server, and advertise the HUB server? There are quite a few holes in this "no cracked" thing, as far as I can tell.

It's getting hard to write in new colors for new updates, but I think I haven't used this one yet. My new point here is that offline servers can still be played on when minecraft.net is down, allowing players to play no matter what the situation is! I even found a plugin on bukkit that pings minecraft.net, and if it isn't allowing people to log in, it remembers your IP from previous joins and assigns you your account! Online servers wouldn't allow that!

Had to open my mouth that I wasn't going to edit this again, huh? I have since RETURNED it to cracked status, and am currently fighting a bunch of people as to why I've done it. Mainly due to my new host, but I also believe that users who play cracked on truly GOOD servers (as I'm told mine is), can lead to them buying the game. I can't tell how many users have joined my server cracked, and have bought the game since then, stating that it was the quality of the server, as well as other servers they played on, that got them to buy the game. THIS will probalby be my last edit, sorry that I lied last time!

This will be my final edit before I permanently finish this blog, and stop updating it. I have since removed my server's cracked status due to some other issues arising, but I did create another server a lot like the first that is cracked, for all of my cracked users. This is another option for us cracked server owners, we could just make another server that's cracked, make one premium, and upload the premium one to sites like this,

I'm trying to update this with better grammar and clearer meanings (Some people are misreading what I mean when I say it, which is just how I write sometimes). If you see spelling/grammar/some other error, feel free to tell me!

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This has been fun to type up for everyone who read it, and I hope you all got something from it. If you'd like other people to read it, or find that you agree with me, you can still throw diamonds and comments and the like at it, it DID take me a long time to get all my ideas into it, after all. I'll no longer be adding any more to it, as I am totally out of ideas and thing that no more can possibly come to me. I'll try and come up with more thought-promoting blogs such as this in the future, and if you like them you can subscribe to me and see them when I upload them.


Again, thank you for reading this!