原标题：Minecraft servers are apparently "illegal," according to the Vice President of America's biggest gaming association （美国最大的游戏协会的副总裁称Minecraft服务器显然是“非法的”）
Minecraft servers are "illegal" and "not in any way affiliated with Microsoft or Mojang." At least, that's what Jennifer Gibbons, Vice President of State Government Affairs at the Entertainment Software Association, told the California State Senate's Professions and Economic Development Committee on Monday, June 29. Minecraft服务器是“非法的”，且“与微软公司或Mojang没有任何从属关系”。娱乐软件协会政府事务管理副总裁詹妮弗·吉本斯（Jennifer Gibbons）于6月29日（一），在加利福尼亚州参议院职业与经济发展委员会上发表了这一观点。
The committee was voting on Assembly Bill 1921, which you may know better as the Protect Our Games Act. The legislation aims to prevent publishers from making server-dependent games unplayable, requiring full, advance notice from developers before service is terminated. It would also force developers to provide support that ensures the game is playable when servers go offline, or offer refunds to consumers if that isn't possible.
委员会此前投票《1921号州议会法案》（Assembly Bill 1921，后简称1921号法案），该法案也被称为《保护我们的游戏法案》。该法案对发行商提出明确要求，防止依赖服务器的游戏无法游玩，同时要求开发商在终止服务前必须做到提前充分通知。该法案还将强制开发商保证游戏在服务器离线时仍可正常运行，若无法实现，则应向消费者提供退款渠道。
The bill passed through the California State Assembly on June 1, but faced the State Senate on June 29. Present at the hearing was Jennifer Gibbons, Vice President of the Entertainment Software Association. The ESA is the trade association of the videogame industry in the United States and represents the interests of developers and publishers when it comes to legislation like this. In California, she was there to convince members of the committee to vote against AB 1921, which is where she made the bizarre comment about Minecraft servers.
该法案于6月1日在加州众议院获得通过，于6月29日提交州参议院审议。美国娱乐软件协会（ESA）副总裁詹妮弗·吉本斯也出席了此次听证会。ESA是美国电子游戏行业的行业协会，在此类立法问题上代表开发者和出版商的利益。因此，吉本斯出席此次会议主要就是为了反对通过1921号法案，她也正是在这次听证会上发表了关于Minecraft社区服务器的奇怪论调。
In opposition to the bill, Gibbons stated that no other digital product faced the same scrutiny that AB 1921 would bring to videogames, and suggested that the requirement for refunds did not consider the years of enjoyment that consumers would have received from the game before it was sunset.
在反对该法案时，吉本斯表示，1921号法案将对电子游戏实施最严格的审查，这是其他任何数字产品所没有的；并暗示强制退款的提议并没有考虑到消费者在游戏终止支持前已经享受过的数年的游玩体验。
When asked by the committee about the possibility of community servers being used to keep games alive, and whether that would be a breach of copyright and technically possible, California Assembly Member Chris Ward stated that popular games like Minecraft and Call of Duty currently use community-hosted servers, and confirmed that it was an option.
当有委员会成员问及社区服务器是否可能用来维持游戏的生命活力、是否会构成版权侵权，及技术上是否可行时，加州众议员克里斯·沃德（Chris Ward）表示，像Minecraft和《使命召唤》这样的热门游戏目前都存在社区托管的服务器，并确认这一方案是可行的。
In response, Gibbons claimed: "They're illegal, and they are not in any way affiliated with Microsoft. Microsoft, for Minecraft, has gotten a lot of criticism because of those community servers not employing the same safety standards as Microsoft servers." When asked by a committee if community servers were "the black market of videogames," Gibbons replied: "Yes, we consider it piracy."
随后吉本斯对这一论据作出回击，称“这些服务器是非法的，并且与微软公司没有任何从属关系。微软公司已经因Minecraft社区服务器没有采用与微软服务器相同的安全标准而受到了大量批评。”当有委员会成员把社区服务器比成“电子游戏的黑市”时，吉本斯附议道：“是的，我们认为这就是一种盗版行为。”
Unsurprisingly, this raised quite a few eyebrows among the gaming community. If you've played Minecraft, you'll know that not only are community servers a huge part of the sandbox game, but they are actually promoted by Mojang and Microsoft. For example, on the official Minecraft website, there is a section dedicated to playing with friends that includes a mention of community-run servers.
毫不意外，这一论调在游戏社区中引发了巨大关注。只要你有玩过Minecraft，你就应该听说过，社区服务器不仅是这款沙盒游戏的重要组成部分之一，而且事实上也得到了Mojang和微软公司的推广。例如，在Minecraft的官方网站上就有一个专为与朋友一起游玩而设立的版块，其中列举了一些由社区运营的服务器。
On top of that, the official Minecraft website literally provides players with the software required to create and run their own server. Odd behaviour if Microsoft and Mojang view them as "illegal," as suggested by Gibbons. PCGamesN has reached out to Mojang for comment on the matter, and will update this story should we receive a response. 另外，Minecraft的官方网站上也直接向玩家提供可用来搭建并运行服务器的软件。要是微软公司和Mojang像吉本斯说的那样，认为搭建社区服务器是一种“非法”行为的话，那这些行为就太奇怪了。目前PCGamesN已就此事联系了Mojang方面，一旦收到回复，我们便会立即跟进报道。
In the end, AB 1921 did not pass through the State Senate; however, the Stop Killing Games initiative, which brought the act, stated that it had "never expected to get this far" and would return with amendments to the bill in the future.
最终，1921号法案未能通过州参议院决议。不过，据推动该法案的“停止杀死游戏”倡议组织表示，他们“也很意外能走到今天这一步”，并计划在未来改进并重新提交该一提案。
Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson has previously thrown his support behind the initiative, calling on gamers to "host your own servers" and saying that "if buying a game is not a purchase, then pirating them is not theft."
Minecraft的创作者，马库斯·“Notch”·佩尔松在之前也曾对这一倡议表示支持，他鼓励玩家“自行搭建服务器”，并表示：“要是购买游戏不能被算作消费的话，那盗版游戏也不该被算作盗窃。”
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