Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft, has weighed in on the popular Stop Killing Games initiative – a fan driven movement to stop publishers from making games unplayable.

After taking a short break from social media, Persson returned and made a clear joke at YouTuber Pirate Software, saying “Why is there a nepo baby doubling down over there?”

This is a nod to Pirate Software’s dad, who worked at Blizzard Entertainment as their cinematic director. Pirate Software (real name Jason Thor Hall) later worked at Blizzard and oftentimes described himself as a “second-generation Blizzard employee.”

While Pirate Software’s original rebuttal to Stop Killing Games was quite awhile ago, in the months since both he and Ross Scott (largely the main person behind Stop Killing Games) have publicly debated its validity.

Persson, who went by the username Notch in Minecraft, didn’t mince words in his judgement on Stop Killing Games though – he doubled down on his support of the movement.

“Just verifying that yes, that is what I was talking about,” Notch said. “If buying a game is not a purchase, then pirating them is not theft.”

When asked by fans what game preservationists and gamers in general should do when multiplayer games are taken offline, Notch said: “Host your own servers. This is what ALL games used to do.”

Earlier this month, Stop Killing Games reached its signature goal of 1 million signatures, which would bring the initiative before the European Union, and possibly codified into law.