- Sources: primary, discussion
- Summary: The Luanti team states its Android app was removed from Google Play on a DMCA notice filed on behalf of Microsoft by Tracer.AI, whose substantive claim is that the app uses Minecraft assets, supported by a copyright registration number and no identification of any asset. Luanti ships no games and no game assets, and stopped bundling Minetest Game in December 2023. The team states the same company filed the same kind of notice against Luanti in March 2023, when reinstatement took 46 days against the 10 to 14 business day window in DMCA section 512(g)(2)(c), and against the indie game Allumeria in February 2026, which Microsoft later dropped.
- Why it matters: An automated brand-protection pipeline can remove an open-source project's distribution channel for weeks on an unsubstantiated notice, and F-Droid and direct APK downloads are the paths left while the filed counter-notice runs.
- Follow-up: Track whether the counter-notice restores the Play listing and how long reinstatement takes this time.
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