It may ultimately be lost revenue and lawsuits that protect us from the tidal wave of AI garbage.
Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
361–370 of 493 posts
Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
#362Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
#363Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've heard a ton of stories about .io, IMO, they play fast and loose in a space where that isn't okay, and they get away with it mostly because they are a ccTLD. The last time someone I knew had an issue, they had to get a senator to make waves to get anything resolved.
I regret going with .io for my personal domain name. At the time I thought it was cool, but they've since raised prices and hearing things like this doesn't instill confidence...
And isn't .io on borrowed time, since the country will soon no longer exist?
Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
#364Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given the OP and admin in the comments explicitly say that this wasn't a DMCA claim it would rather hurt any campaign to lie and say it was.
But the DMCA is the only legal mechanism for demanding swift action from a registrar/hosting party without the involvement of a judge, at least FAFAIK. So if this wasn't a DMCA takedown, then the registrar was acting completely of their own volition and should be liable for all fallout.
No, sadly it's not. These are private companies.. if you write to them and tell them to take a site down for "reasons" and they think the "reasons" are good enough, they'll do it.
Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
#365Hm. So Funko sells merchandise related to the Jurassic World franchise.[1] But, according to Licensing International, Mattel licenses the toy rights to that franchise from Universal Products and Experiences, the merchandise arm of Universal Pictures. [2] Also, Funko sells Disney Princess dolls.[3] Mattel announced a multi-year licensing deal with Disney to license the doll rights for Disney Princess dolls. “The coura…
Disney and Universal license and even sell Funko in their parks. But what you did discover is why some are bobble heads.
Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
They hiked prices massively so I wanted to transfer away, it was a massive shitshow. Auth-codes given on the website were expired and they took 2 weeks to give me the correct ones near the end of the registry period. Support was extremely unresponsive. As this this was a side project I couldn't spent time on every day my domain went into quarantine for a short time. They answered 2 days before the end of the rental p…
Wow, I never knew that to be the case! How would I find a registrar that supports .at LTD? Cloudflare, AWS, Google—neither supports it.
I'm using dynadot for my .at domains
Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've heard a ton of stories about .io, IMO, they play fast and loose in a space where that isn't okay, and they get away with it mostly because they are a ccTLD. The last time someone I knew had an issue, they had to get a senator to make waves to get anything resolved.
I regret going with .io for my personal domain name. At the time I thought it was cool, but they've since raised prices and hearing things like this doesn't instill confidence...
That, and the Indian Ocean territory will cease to exist in the (very) near future, so the .io domains might be going the way of the dodo.
I won't be registering any new ones at least, and recommending everyone to stay away from them.
Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
Filing false reports like this should count as fraud.
Isn't it already classed as perjury?
No, the perjury aspect of a DMCA takedown (which isn't even applicable here as that's not what they did) is if you don't actually represent the person that you claim to be filing a takedown on behalf of.
Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
#369How are all these "DMCA Ignored" domain registrars? Do they actually send all DMCA requests to /dev/null? Sounds like using one of those would have "fixed" the problem here.
I used to host my TV torrent tracker with one of these that would ignore literally everything. Was expensive, but was factored into the costs.
Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
#370Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://domainincite.com/24614-centralnic-to-pay-3-4-million... I appreciated the indie feel as well, but I can't blame someone for selling out to the tune of 7 figures when the opportunity arises.
I see you’re being downvoted on Hacker News for what appears to be an expression of support for founders selling out for millions of dollars. We have arrived at peak hypocrisy.
HN is just a news aggregator. Being a participant does not mean one agrees with YCombinator's business practices, nor does it imply any other requisite opinions.
So I don't see the hypocrisy