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Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Statement is from https://xcancel.com/OriginalFunko/status/1866255848366039468#m

From: https://xcancel.com/BrandShieldltd/status/1866161489528180988#m

Edit, bonus panel! What scum.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So Funko issued a non-apology blaming Brandshield.

Brandshield issued a non-apology blaming the registrar (Iwantmyname), and saying their AI tool definitely had nothing to do with it

And Iwantmyname hasn't even put out a statement.

Fucked all around, yet it seems nobody will be facing consequence for this except Itch.io who got their website nuked out of nowhere.

Though if I were Itch, I'd get a new registrar ASAP.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What I find really weird is I have a website, or had a website years ago, that someone issued a DMCA takedown to it, but it was totally fraudulent. The registrar sent me an email to say they had received the takedown request, had reviewed it, found it to be invalid, and we're taking no further action.

They didn't send me this email until after they'd already decided to ignore the report. Start to finish the whole thing took about 3 days. That was for some tiny irrelevant website that no one except me and a few users would have even cared if it had been taken down. Why didn't they do the same for a massive internationally well-known website?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

You make a good point. Even disregarding how well known Itch is, their registrar acted woefully incompetently by not even attempting to contact Itch.io about the takedown request (which is what Brandshield should have done in the first place)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If only we had a few more Luigi, these corpo-shit would think twice

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[–] JackbyDev 20 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Hey, so if BrandShield is being honest, what's Itch's registrar? What do they have to say? 🍿 This keeps getting deeper.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You just know that their "AI driven platform" is a call to google for the brand names they're "protecting" followed by takedown requests issued to the registered email followed by one to the registrar for every domain found.

We need a new internet because this one is fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The fact that a legit website could be taken down just by a big corporation claim, without any further third party or gubernamental investigation. Is indeed frightening.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Nintendo people: First time?

[–] tengkuizdihar 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't they contacted the owners mom about this? Fucking disgusting practices.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Ive had companies call my mom over stuff because the last known contact information they found for me was from when I was still living with my parents. Literally years after I moved out.

The "A.I" excuse stuff reads like bullshit. The mom call might just be old information.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

That buck just keeps on passing around, huh?

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