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Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by nkrisc »

Gigachad wrote: post #232
terminalbraid wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the outraged crowd and there should be pretty serious consequences, but it is important in the interest of justice to differentiate between fraud, negligence, and gross incompetence.

As long as you have some automated AI bot sent all the reports. It’s never fraud, you couldn’t have known it would do that.

Which is why anyone deploying AI solutions should be held accountable for whatever the AI does, as if they had done it personally and intentionally.

It’s irresponsible to deploy AI if you don’t know what it will do, especially when there are actual stakes.

Maybe we’ll have less AI bullshit then.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by esskay »

duggan wrote: post #57
leafo wrote: post #31

I'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…

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

Another vote for porkbun here. By far one of the best registrars out there right now.

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Post by kmlx »

betteryet wrote: post #178
duggan wrote: post #57

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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.

does anyone here use cloudflare as a registrar?

i’m interested in any potential negatives.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by bb010g »

paxys wrote: post #5
bpye wrote: post #4

The registrar in question is iwantmyname, so I guess you can add them to your "do not use" list.

I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar. - Namecheap - Cloudflare - Route 53 (if on AWS) Any others?

I've had great experiences with NameSilo.

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Post by terminalbraid »

kallistisoft wrote: post #49
paxys wrote: post #5

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I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar. - Namecheap - Cloudflare - Route 53 (if on AWS) Any others?

I've been using IONOS (formerly 1und1) for the last 20 years for all of my DNS and hosting needs and couldn't be happier. Their uptime, non-obtrusive policies, and customer support have all been top notch . Can't recommend enough. As an example; I had a dedicated server that I was leasing that I wanted to upgrade, the sales tech noticed that the plan I was currently on had been retired/replaced and credited my accoun…

IONOS requires you to make a phone call to talk to their retention reps before you can cancel anything

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by 7thaccount »

pdpi wrote: post #193
CaptainFever wrote: post #101

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I really wish BrandShield didn't use AI as a marketing term. It just looks like it's doing a generic ctrl-F on webpages? Then things like this happen, and people think "ooh AI is bad, the bubble must burst" when this has nothing to do with that in the first place, and the real issue was that they sent a "fraud/phishing report" rather than a "trademark infringement" report. Then I also wish that people who knew better…

I find that businesses that bill themselves as ${TOOL}-users instead of ${PROBLEM}-solvers are, as a general rule, problematic. I couldn't possibly care any less whether a product is built on AI or a clever switch statement or a bazillion little gnomes doing the work by hand. I care that it solves a problem. AI does need to die. Not so much because LLMs are bad, but rather because, like "big data" and "blockchain" an…

The AI hype is annoying in my field as well. AI can have its uses, but we already figured out where to use it in my field ages ago. That doesn't stop people from hyping nothing though.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by TiredOfLife »

0x073 wrote: post #175
egorfine wrote: post #159

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> I had removed the page and disabled the account Did this account violate your ToS or the actual law? While I totally understand where are you coming from and I would probably be forced to do the same, I still tend to believe that closing a fan account is exactly the same thing that your registrar did to you.

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 domain registrar must choose between every domain they have and one that is causing trouble.

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Post by multimoon »

CM30 wrote: post #248
jeroenhd wrote: post #67

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Some companies have always been terrible about this. Fan projects involving companies like Nintendo or Take Two Interactive (GTA) are like lawyer bait. Disney has hired lawyers to sue a daycare center that had (clearly unofficial) character art painted on the walls. It's dystopic, but it's the world we live in. I didn't really expect Funko or 10:10 Games to be like that, but then again I didn't expect anyone would li…

Just gonna point out that the Nintendo going after fanworks bit is a tad blown out of proportion, especially online. They're definitely known for being way too heavy handed (especially compared to the likes of Sega), but they're not exactly going after every fan project they see on the internet. Large sites whose entire purpose is to host fan games and mods for the Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, etc series have been up for d…

Nintendo just finished killing both major switch emulators.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by TiredOfLife »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #39
seanthemon wrote: post #34

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man, this shit is ridiculous.. now we can't even make fan pages? Will you be moving away from this registrar? It seems like it could very easily be abused again.

After this, everyone will be moving away from this registrar...

And itch.io who removed that page.
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