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What makes a Minecraft Launcher illegal?

EchoTheGoof 2/11/22 7:53 am
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3/13/2022 5:01 am
So I've seen a few things on PMC mentioning a thing called Tlauncher, and it's gotten me curious, what makes a launcher illegal? I've never heard of Tlauncher before and the only launchers I've ever heard of are the twitch launcher, the Minecraft Launcher (duh), the Curseforge launcher, badlion, and lunar. So when does a launcher meet the criteria to be considered illegal?

If anyone is curious I use the Minecraft Launcher and the CurseForge launcher, which I believe are both legal, but I could be wrong.
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whimsykit
02/26/2022 1:51 pm
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illegal ones are ones not made by Mojang.
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Coffee Gamer 360
03/02/2022 9:30 am
Level 73 : Legendary Enderdragon Nether Knight
Illegal ones are ones which let you play for free without buying mc
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The_Glittering_One
02/11/2022 5:20 pm
Level 45 : Master Dragon
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I use a non mojang Launcher but have paid accounts. In fact... all of my players use clients but all have accounts lol. We use it for closed community atm.
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Dwarf_Star21
02/11/2022 8:34 am
Level 17 : Journeyman Skinner
It's not ilegal we can play minecraft with Tlauncher but it's not ilegal but the only fault is we can join orginal server like hypixel
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Coffee Gamer 360
02/11/2022 8:51 am
Level 73 : Legendary Enderdragon Nether Knight
Getting something for free = piracy
Piracy = illegal
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Mikicrep
03/01/2022 7:09 am
Level 3 : Apprentice Miner
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so playing roblox is illegal, same thing for fortnite, using discord, using planet minecraft, using youtube and stuff?
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Coffee Gamer 360
03/01/2022 7:49 am
Level 73 : Legendary Enderdragon Nether Knight
Bruh, i clearly meant getting getting paid stuff for free is called piracy, example - youtube premium
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Mikicrep
03/02/2022 7:47 am
Level 3 : Apprentice Miner
so getting demo of game is illegal
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Coffee Gamer 360
03/02/2022 9:30 am
Level 73 : Legendary Enderdragon Nether Knight
OMG how dumb are you
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EchoTheGoof
03/02/2022 7:54 am
Level 30 : Artisan Musician
Bro, just stop trying to prove somebody who knows what they're talking about wrong. It doesn't help you lol
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EchoTheGoof
02/11/2022 4:24 pm
Level 30 : Artisan Musician
Thanks for clearing it up for me :)
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Coffee Gamer 360
02/11/2022 8:18 am
Level 73 : Legendary Enderdragon Nether Knight
It gives you mc for free so obviously illegal
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sigstop
03/13/2022 5:01 am
Level 2 : Apprentice Miner
But all launchers are polling minecraft .jars from mojang, not bundling them what would be considered redistribution of game and therefore illegal. It may be not intended, but mojang have not done anything about it for last ten years, and they would just have to set requirement for session id for downloading the .jar.

Offline mode is just what is has to be, you don't have connection to the internet (no connection to mojang), but can have connection to home server (lan party).
Yes playing always in offline mode is bit sketchy, but the real culprit behind that is mojang itself.

But ok, lets say all these "reverse engineering" that got us knowledge about mojang api is illegal, then we can conclude that all third party mc launchers are illegal, as they must used it for their functionality. (Not read mc licence in a while, but it would not astonish me if thats the case)

Lets all just someday play on wynncraft together and it will be fine.
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