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Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by [deleted] »

fallingknife wrote: post #212
kaoD wrote: post #155

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> I'm glad the founders got their exit I'm not. I mean, I am happy for them but this concept of growing a business to an exit is not going well for society as a whole (at least the exits that are in my areas of interest, so I assume it extrapolates to all exits). Every single business that gets bought out gets instantly enshittified in one way or another, always to the detriment of the customer. Depending on how entr…

Every time that happens it just makes an opportunity for someone else to start a new competitor

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Post by gessha »

Shank wrote: post #188
leonard-somero wrote: post #134

I 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.

Rouge or rogue :D

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Post by Angostura »

robertlagrant wrote: post #216
kiba wrote: post #164

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Sell it to the employees? It won't be lucrative to selling it to someone with more cash than sense, but it may be more likely to preserve the value. There's no guarantee of course, and there's so little experience societal wide in running an employee co-op.

There are a few employee co-ops, but I don't know how good they are. Over here in the UK we have the Co-op[0], which is a national chain of small local shops. It's a consumer co-operative rather than a workers' cooperative, though. I don't know how well it works, or what its challenges are, but it definitely exists. [0] https://www.co-operative.coop

Don’t forget John Lewis/Waitrose and the excellent Richer Sounds:

Richer Sounds boss in £3.5m staff giveaway https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48269171

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by dartos »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #235
kaoD wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm glad the founders got their exit I'm not. I mean, I am happy for them but this concept of growing a business to an exit is not going well for society as a whole (at least the exits that are in my areas of interest, so I assume it extrapolates to all exits). Every single business that gets bought out gets instantly enshittified in one way or another, always to the detriment of the customer. Depending on how entr…

> I mean, I am happy for them but this concept of growing a business to an exit is not going well for society as a whole The last thing I want is to be a 70 y/o still supporting a registrar. Especially considering the margins.

You can be responsible with an exit and sell to someone you’d believe will keep the company’s mission.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by vasco »

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…

Hope you have money to fight them. I stuck to my guns on a wrongful one like this and while Digitalocean and Cloudflare both had my backs (surprisingly before I even asked, both of them got a lot of good will on that - they informed me they already checked and it was spurious!). Google didn't have my back though and immediately caved when they upgraded their sham copyright infringement claim to money laundering and fraud based on nothing - a fully static website with no backend calls. Good luck! I still have the sites exactly as they were just to spite them and will keep running them at a loss until I'm dead. Copyright infringement my ass. This abuse has got to stop sometime.

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Post by djsnoopy »

hobofan wrote: post #202
sureglymop wrote: post #32

A similar thing has happened to me before. There is a company with the same name as my surname with a trademark for it. When I registered a domain with my surname in it, the registrar had an automatic process in place that checked for this trademark and took away access of the domain. So far so good. The problem was that the registrar and its support then ghosted me and also never refunded me for the money already pa…

> I think one of the problems is that as more and more individual consumers buy domains Huh, I was always under the assumption that the percentage of domains bought by individual consumers is shrinking. As in, in the early days of the internet until ~2010 where commercialization was only slowly picking up (or only concentrated to a few domains), the majority of domains were personal websites and blogs.

The percentage share of personal domains doesn’t tell you everything. More and more consumers probably are buying personal domains just by the nature of it getting cheaper and easier to host and there being more people on the internet year over year. Could be proven wrong though because I don’t know how to get the numbers.

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Post by [deleted] »

RestartKernel wrote: post #91
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…

This issue aside, thanks for doing what you do. I was kind of expecting Itch to get sold to some holdings or casino company at some point, as good things tend to go, but I've been happily surprised to see it mature independently throughout the years.

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Post by pera »

pdpi wrote: post #203
pera wrote: post #198

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According to this no one has ever been prosecuted just for sending false DMCA takedown notices: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/51541/has-anyone-bee... They do mention a case where the defendant acted in bad faith and was found liable for damages though.

It's a good thing it's not a DMCA takedown notice, then. They reported itch.io for phishing.

Sorry you are right, somehow I'd missed that part

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Post by seanwilson »

kmlx wrote: post #263
betteryet wrote: post #178

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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.

I've helped move a few domains from Gandi to Cloudflare. The move was relatively straightforward (couldn't get the Gandi records export to import into Cloudflare so had to do it manually...), and the new domain and renewal prices are lower.

To replace Gandi email (that Gandi went from free to ramping up the pricing for when they were taken over), Cloudflare offer email forwarding so you can receive incoming mail from a custom domain to e.g. a gmail account, and for sending mail you can pair this with a custom SMTP service like https://www.smtp2go.com (1000 emails/month on the free tier).

Apart from that, DNS is something I barely touch for years sometimes so I don't find much difference between registrars beside their pricing and how much you can trust them.

Being able to point your Cloudflare nameserver records would be nice though, so worst case you'd need to move everything if another registrar had some services you were interested in? Would be curious to know more about how common this scenario comes up and why.

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