Microsoft allegedly hits Minecraft Legacy Console posts with DMCA takedowns on X

Just days after the Minecraft Legacy Console Edition (LCE) source code leaked online, Microsoft is reportedly flexing its legal muscle. Several X accounts sharing Minecraft-related posts have allegedly received DMCA notices.

X user @coah80 put the spotlight on the issue after getting a DMCA notice from Microsoft on their account. But after checking their email, they found it wasn’t just their posts that were hit. The same takedown request allegedly covered tweets from multiple other accounts too.

Oddly enough, some of the tweets had nothing to do with source code, at least going by how @coah80 described the set of posts included. One was simply a video of Minecraft LCE running on Windows with multiplayer, shared by @Nya5Cz.

Another allegedly flagged post from @nyaathea was just MCPE content. The bulk of what was targeted seems to be Minecraft Bedrock “Dungeons & Legends” beta footage, mixed in with plain LCE and MCPE clips, not code, just gameplay.

At the same time, the leak chatter has lit a fire under the community. On X, people are openly talking about what the goal even is now that “the source code is out,” whether that means improving performance, making ports, or just experimenting. You can already see dev-style progress posts too. Whisper (@hereswhisper) said they looked into slow chunk generation in their Minecraft legacy edition fork and claimed they fixed it. Thea (@nyaathea) has also been posting about “infinite terrain generation” in an old MCPE build.

Coah warns this could spread beyond X posts, saying forks, YouTube videos, or “literally anything else” could be next if Microsoft keeps pushing. In a follow-up, they also floated a different idea: the DMCA might be triggered by an automated “AI crawler” style system rather than a person manually reviewing each post, and they pointed readers to outside discussions while mentioning Tracer as an example of the kind of company used for this sort of enforcement.

It’s also worth noting that Microsoft has backed down from a DMCA before. Earlier this year, the company withdrew a DMCA that affected the indie game Allumeria on Steam, which we covered on our sister site TechIssuesToday.

Microsoft hasn’t publicly responded to these claims. Still, because Legacy Console Edition is older and has largely been replaced by Bedrock on major platforms, people are now asking why Microsoft is going after clips and discussions around a version many consider “classic” Minecraft

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