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2025-01-29 mojang copyright infringement complaint

2025-01-29: Copyright Infringement Complaint from Mojang

2025-01-29: 📥 Email received from Cloudflare T&S

Hello,

Cloudflare received a DMCA copyright infringement complaint regarding: revolt[.]chat

The information we received was the following:

Reporter’s Name: [omitted]
Reporter’s Email Address: [email protected]
Reporter’s Company Name: Mojang AB
Reporter’s Telephone Number: [omitted]
Reporter’s Address: [omitted]

Reported URLs:
hxxps://app[.]revolt[.]chat/invite/[omitted]

Original Work: Minecraft is a well known game. Please see http://minecraft.net for images, textures, and visual assets.

We have forwarded this complaint to your hosting provider.

To respond to this issue, please reply to [email protected].

Thanks,
The Cloudflare Team

The invite link provided displays the following:

Upon inspection of the background and server contents:

  • The background resembles a Minecraft clone, but no Minecraft textures/assets are in use.
  • The server does not redistribute Mojang’s assets.

For reference, the following are the full resolution assets from the invite page:

NB. closer inspection of the screenshot above indicates that the textures in use are clearly not the textures used in Minecraft; what precedent does this set for other Minecraft clones such as Luanti (formerly Minetest)?

2025-01-29: 📤 Email sent to Cloudflare & Mojang Enforcement Team

Hello,

Upon review of the complaint, we have not found any evidence that any of Minecraft’s assets (images, textures, and visual assets) are being distributed at the given URL.

Kind regards,
Paul Makles

2025-01-29: 📥 Email received from Mojang Enforcement Team (cc Cloudflare)

All textures that are being used are directly copy/past from Minecraft the game.

For context, none of these images exist on our servers.

2025-01-31: 📤 Email sent to Mojang Enforcement Team (cc Cloudflare)

Hi,
Thank you for your email. Could you please clarify what the images sent are intended to prove?

As I understand it, the issue at hand is that this group is redistributing some of your proprietary assets through our site, which is why you filed the notice. However, we need to be able to identify where those assets are being redistributed to assist in removing them.

We are committed to cooperating fully with you to resolve this matter. However, if there are no such materials on our site, then unfortunately, there is no further action we can take on our end.

Best regards,
Paul Makles

2025-01-31: 📥 Email received from Mojang Enforcement Team (cc Cloudflare)

Minecraft is a well known game. Once you create an account and log into the “app”, you will see gameplay that is an exact replica of Minecraft including gameplay, UX features, and specific block textures.

Based on our observation there are dozens of textures used. Examples…

Thanks for your support.

Given this email, it appears the most reasonable explanation is that there has been some confusion on Mojang’s end. If “app” does indeed refer to Revolt, they have failed to verify their claims, i.e. that we are a chat platform and are not actually hosting the game. If it does not, this once again does not have anything to do with us.

2025-02-01: 📥 Email received from Hetzner Abuse

Dear Mr Paul Makles,

As we have not received requested information from you within the deadline, this ticket will now be manually checked. We have been expecting either a statement from you or test results (if you have network issues).

Please note that if multiple complaints have been received, the situation could lead to the IP being locked.

Important note:
When replying to us, please leave the abuse ID [AbuseID:F27DF9:28] unchanged in the subject line.
Kind regards

Abuse Team

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Keep in mind, this is the first email received from Hetzner, I’m not sure what information they requested from us?

2025-02-02: 📤 Email sent to Hetzner Abuse

Hi,
We’re currently talking with the affected party to find out where the issue is, they’re being quite difficult and not providing any direct evidence of us hosting their copyrighted materials.

Given their last email to us, I believe it’s possible they haven’t done due diligence in checking whether we are actually redistributing assets, they state that ‘Minecraft is a well known game. Once you create an account and log into the “app”, you will see gameplay that is an exact replica of Minecraft including gameplay, UX features, and specific block textures’. The implication is that the “app” is revolt.chat, but I can attest that we do not host any games, we are simply a communications platform where users can post messages to each other. I will be inquiring further on this claim and see what is going on.

I will CC in Hetzner on further correspondence we have with them, including the abuse ticket number so that it goes to the right place.

Lastly, apologies for the late reply to Hetzner, however I did not receive any email prior stating that we had to provide a statement or any response from Hetzner, only the initial Cloudflare email that indicated this had been forwarded to Hetzner (with no other details).

Best regards,
Paul Makles

2025-02-02: 📤 Email sent to Mojang Enforcement Team (cc Cloudflare, Hetzner)

Hello,

First of all, I’ve added Hetzner abuse to the email chain so they can stay in the loop.

Secondly, to potentially ease this situation, the background on the invite page has been removed and the chat group owner will be notified so they can pursue the matter with you directly if they wish to reinstate it.

Finally, I would like clarification on what “app” from your last email refers to. Particularly:

Once you create an account and log into the “app”, you will see gameplay that is an exact replica of Minecraft including gameplay, UX features, and specific block textures.

This leads me to believe that “app” refers to Revolt / revolt.chat, however in that case this statement is simply untrue, we are a communications platform and do not host any games.

Screenshots are provided below for reference, taken as of writing this email.

The Revolt messenger app

The invite page / reported URL

The “VoxelCore” chat group interface after “accepting invite”

Hopefully that helps clear up what we are actually hosting on our website.

Kind regards,
Paul Makles

2025-02-02: 📥 Email received from Mojang Enforcement Team (cc Cloudflare, Hetzner)

Thanks. We will review the images and ensure they are correlated to the correct site/url. The report was very detailed and showed images shared in the chat. If there is no game play accessible via chat or being shared, then the “chat” app should be acceptable.

Thanks

2025-02-26: 📥 Email received from Tracer.ai

To Whom It may concern:

We hereby notify you on behalf of Microsoft Corporation, (“Microsoft Corporation”) that the following URL https://rvlt.gg/[omitted] (the “URL”) which you are hosting contains content (the “Infringing Content”) which infringes the copyright, intellectual property rights, goodwill and reputation of Microsoft Corporation, including the following copyright (the “MINECRAFT Copyright”) owned by Microsoft Corporation, found on Microsoft Corporation’s website at https://www.minecraft.net/:

Copyright: MINECRAFT

The URL’s Infringing Content constitutes an infringement of Microsoft Corporation’s intellectual property rights in the MINECRAFT Copyright. This damages the goodwill and reputation of Microsoft Corporation and causes consumer confusion as to whether the Infringing Content is authorized, endorsed, or sponsored by Microsoft Corporation when, in fact, it is not. Microsoft Corporation has an obligation to the public to police against any copyright infringing content which may cause marketplace confusion. Such actions by the URL dilute Microsoft Corporation’s MINECRAFT Copyright, harm its associated goodwill, and constitute, inter alia, a misappropriation and violation of the rights of Microsoft Corporation. This damage to its business entitles Microsoft Corporation to various forms of relief, including monetary compensation.

We represent under penalty of perjury that the information in this notice is true and correct, and that we are authorized to act on behalf of Microsoft Corporation as owner of the MINECRAFT Copyright. We have a good faith belief that this use of the Infringing Content in the URL is not authorized by Microsoft Corporation as the owner of the MINECRAFT Copyright or its agents, nor is such use permissible by law. Use of such Infringing Content in the URL is not defensible. We have notified the registrant and registrar of the URL’s domain in writing of this matter.

Since you are hosting the URL containing the Infringing Content, we request that you immediately disable or suspend such URL without delay. We would appreciate your resolving this matter as soon as possible and confirming that you have done so within the next seven (7) days. Microsoft Corporation reserves the right to take whatever action it considers appropriate to protect its rights and nothing contained in this Notice is intended to constitute a waiver of any of Microsoft Corporation’s legal rights or remedies, all of which are hereby expressly reserved.

Please let us know if you need any additional information.

Sincerely,

The Tracer Customer Service Team
(on behalf of Microsoft Corporation)

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2025-02-26: 📤 Email sent to Mojang Enforcement Team (cc Cloudflare, Hetzner)

Hi,

We’ve already spoken with the Mojang Enforcement team about this page, we do not have any evidence that Minecraft assets are being hosted at the given URL, then we also provided evidence on our end of what is actually hosted at the URL, and their last reply to us was:

Thanks. We will review the images and ensure they are correlated to the correct site/url. The report was very detailed and showed images shared in the chat. If there is no game play accessible via chat or being shared, then the “chat” app should be acceptable.

Thanks

We’ve received no further correspondence.

I’ve included three attachments that show:

  • The Revolt messenger app
  • The invite page / reported URL (what is actually present at the URL)
  • The “VoxelCore” chat group interface after “accepting invite”

If there are indeed Minecraft assets being hosted on our service, please provide specific examples.

Kind Regards,
Paul Makles

—
Revolt Support
Email: [email protected] - Web: https://revolt.chat

Revolt Platforms Ltd. is a company incorporated and registered under the laws of England and Wales.

Registration Number: 16260658
Registered Office:
Suite 5703 Unit 3A, 34-35 Hatton Garden,
Holborn, United Kingdom, EC1N 8DX

Three attachments included, which are the images included in my last email to Mojang.