Is it possible for itch.io to follow the advice of putting user generated content onto a seperate domain from their main one?
Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
there was a time where the internet wasn't a corpo hellscape.
> there was a time where the internet wasn't a corpo hellscape. DMCA passed in 1998. it was short lived.
Not that short-lived in practice, because it may have been passed but it was not enforced to oblivion like it is now.
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#184I got a "cease and desist" type email from one of these (Tracer AI) last week. Really annoying, but I guess spam is a prime LLM use case...
Spam is, when it comes to it, basically the only proven LLM usecase at this point. Everything else is all a bit 'jam tomorrow', "doesn't really work now, but it'll be magic soon, we promise!", but it has very much revolutionised the spam industry.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not optimal, but he must choose between every published game there and one fanpage. Besides that, there are so many websites with copyright content that never changes the domains, is just the domain registration bad or why they just disabled the domain?
It's not optimal, but the registrar had to choose between every registered domain there and one business. But yes, no doubt, that system is broken and the registrar should have known better.
I don't know the company size, but as a paying customer I expect them better support and more time.
If they have a customer like steam would they just cut off the domain? Probably not.
Other domain registrations would just ignored this and nothing would happened.
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#186Congratulation for the return of the site!
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#187I'm the one running itch.io, so here's some more context for you: From what I can tell, some person made a fan page for an existing Funko Pop video game (Funko Fusion), with links to the official site and screenshots of the game. The BrandShield software is probably instructed to eradicate all "unauthorized" use of their trademark, so they sent reports independently to our host and registrar claiming there was "fraud…
Filing false reports like this should count as fraud.
I.e. as a crime rather than just a civic tort? I agree.
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#188I am Leonard Somero, I run verysoftwares.itch.io. I have over 300 followers and a game with 20k+ plays that has been repeatedly featured on the front page. This certainly changed my morning routine! I am glad to hear that the reason wasn't me deleting my Twitter from my page. My first panic reaction was thinking it was me who's caused it, due to some kind of ad revenue conflict. Ever seen the movie Summer Wars? I fel…
> Ever seen the movie Summer Wars? I felt like the protagonist for a moment there, but glad it turns out it was just some 2020s AI nonsense.
Love Machine was a rouge AI in Summer Wars, though.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's federated, not decentralized. For decentralized you need something like https://ens.domains/
Are there any well established definitions for these terms as separate?
Yes? Basically half of them? Some people put federation in decentralised group, some say only distributed is decentralised.
In short: centralised = 1 owner/operator, federated = many semi-autonomous operators to choose from, decentralised/distributed = everyone's an operator on the same level.
With DNS you still have groups of operators who can tell you what to do and they have the main agencies on top of that. I subscribe to the "it's not really decentralised" view.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
iwantmyname was bought out by a conglomerate, “Team Internet[1]”, a few years ago. Prices went up, service went down. I’d recommend moving your domains when you can (Porkbun have been good, though I haven’t had any incidents like this). Best of luck! 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Internet
Same thing with Gandi, which is a shame. Domain renewal price silently went up 3x or so last year after getting acquired.
Yes it's despicable. I'm moving my domains from Gandi one at a time and the cost is 4 times less!!