Mojang is now blocking over thirty major Minecraft servers

Two days ago, we posted about how Mojang is now starting to block players from connecting to servers violating Minecraft's EULA. This means that on Minecraft 1.9.3 or higher, players will recieve an error message when trying to connect to a violating server. Most of the servers were violating the EULA by selling in-game upgrades, which Mojang has banned in the EULA since 2014.

Now Mojang has updated the blacklist (the list of servers blocked on 1.9.3 or higher) to just over thirty servers. Due to the way the blacklist is encoded (in SHA-1 hashes), it's impossible to tell what servers are blocked simply from the list. The only way to determine if a server is blocked is to check it manually using a tool like this.

We will keep you up to date on the drama as it happens. I expect many more server owners will pitch a fit in the coming weeks.