People don’t even want you to play a video game in private now.
"Gibbons cut in: “They’re illegal. 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 that Microsoft does on their Minecraft servers.”
You can host through Microsoft, using a service called Minecraft Realms, but the license agreement also entitles you to host your own server using whatever infrastructure you like, with certain restrictions on content and monetization (most notably, you aren’t supposed to include things like gambling and lootboxes using real-world money or MTX currency that can be purchased with real money).
I’m all for piracy, but hosting your own Minecraft server isn’t even piracy, it’s explicitly allowed!
You could even say that the agreement is a contract which explicitly licenses those who signed it and payed the cost.