PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account

epee1221 writes "Markus Persson, a.k.a. Notch, the developer of Minecraft, posted on his development blog today that PayPal limited his account with unspecified cause on August 25th. Since then, payments for the alpha version of Minecraft have continued accumulating while Notch has been unable to withdraw them, and the account now contains over €600,000. PayPal recently told him it may take up to two more weeks for things to get sorted out and that if they conclude that there is funny business involved, they will keep the money." This unfortunate news followed an announcement a few days ago that he and a friend would be starting a studio of their own to continue development on Minecraft and start working on a new project.

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Re:When is a bank not a bank

[sexconker]

Just use temporary credit card numbers.

Citi Cards has one, so does Discover.

1 time use numbers. Discovers expire the same month as your normal card.

Citi Card's expire the next calendar month and you can even set a limit. I couldn't imagine using anything else.

Xbox Live! doesn't allow these types of cards.
I'm pretty sure PayPal can block them too, if people start using them enough to piss them off.

Re:Sigh

[Surt]

Slashdot is a US centric site. By default, all discussions are assumed to be US-centric.

http://slashdot.org/faq/editorial.shtml#ed850