minecraft may be popular but it is a video game and should be under the video games forum i have not seen this but i've only ever played the pocket edition and i'm waiting for the xbox360 version
Technically, yes, it did lose Notch a lot of money. He lost $27 for every copy downloaded from that site.
Unless they would rather not have it at all than pay for it. Then no one is losing anything. That depends though. Minecraft is such a great game though for a great price. I mean why would you steal something actually worth it's given value with all those other crap games that cost a full $60 when they won't even give you a quarter of the entertainment time that Minecraft will? Not that I support Thievery. Thievery..Shrubbery...
Not really. He's offering a service that people want, and people are willing to pay money for it.
I do believe he was proposing sarcasm with his farcical text.