I'm wondering if it would be fine for me to upload old minecraft versions to the FTP,
I have a copy of nearly every version apart from the some of the early creatives (I've got the ver with block placing modes!)
for survival alpha and beta I have

Minecraft Creeper test
Infdev
Alpha 1
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.66
1.7.3
1.8 pre 1
1.8 pre 2
1.8
1.8.1
1.9 pre 1
1.9 pre 2
1.9 pre 3
1.9 pre 4

Most versions I have the server for as well (early minecraft was fun wasnt it?)

Of course you can.

MCNostalgia does the same thing, reverts your minecraft.jar file to practically whatever version you want. That and I think you mean 1.6.6.

The servers and Creeper test however are of intrest.

The creeper test is just that old survival test that we were allowed to play for free back in ye olde creative era.
The servers and creeper test I shall Upload (look at the top post in 5-10 mins)

Based on what Mojang says you technically are not allowed to distribute full jar files of the different games, however I'm not quite sure it would matter if you uploaded to the FTP.

Well..... This may be counted as warez and therefore I probably shouldn't bother until I get a moderator/Andy's approval.

Most likely you can since they're are Game Proto's, alphas and betas

Could be a grey area.


http://www.minecraft.net/terms

But based on that, mods would not be allowed either and they are, so...

I would rather like to get them, I was looking for those for a long time... Especially all 0.x builds, if you can, PM me those...

It does say "Copyright Mojang AB - Do not distribute" at the bottom, but if you upload it, I guess if it needs to be deleted, it can.
I would say go ahead and upload it, (partially because I want them)

Yeah, just upload to the FTP and maybe zip it all up and upload it to mediafire since we won't get an FTP update for awhile.

Mods are not against Minecraft's TOS because the mods are not distributed bundled with minecraft.jar. The class files for the mod are distributed instead, and users must mod the jar themselves.

As for chucking up the old versions of Minecraft on the FTP, I would imagine that would be against Minecraft's TOS.

If we played by the rules this site would be pointless. UPLOAD!

If we did everything according to the distributors TOS then this site would be empty. Old versions are not supported or available, or even possible to use against the official servers so I don't see a problem uploading them. And if they do we'll remove them.

How do you access these, been trying to locate them for a while now?

They never got uploaded.

I am really hoping these get uploaded, I have been looking for some of these versions for a very long time!

Am I ignored or something?

You can get these by using MCNostalgia. It may not be legal, but if you want them you don't have to go through Evil2828.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/800 ... algia-201/
It's a difference patcher basically.....

Oh that's what you mentioned before, Ok.
Well in that case, Thanks!

You where not ignored, just sort of overlooked.

Please do however due to Notchs Do not Distribute I would contact him first.

I would remind you people tho that the singleplayer version was available for free on the website, it was only the multiplayer function that cost money. MCNostalgia is even offered on their own forums without any complaints. So I don't see any problems distributing their clients since the multiplayer part won't work without paying for it anyway.

Or have I forgotten anything that would change all this?