Aren't they de-coupled by now? I don't think minecraft.net goimg down also takes...

citricsquid · on Jan 14, 2012

https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/157856961612873729 https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/157857196254834689 https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/157865002177536001

based on this I'm assuming he means they're going to take minecraft.net down meaning the login servers, otherwise it'd be a worthless gesture, nobody would know (besides Mojangs bank account)

ugh · on Jan 14, 2012

Ah, ok.

Legally I don’t think this is a problem. The login servers are not needed to play Minecraft. Singleplayer obviously works without them. Multiplayer does, too, but servers can (and in practice do) require you to be logged in.

Morally? I don’t know. I don’t think so. People might disagree.