itch.io (@itch.io)
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I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

Bluesky Post (this was also posted on twitter)

I was hoping to find a statement from the aggressor, but it seems to be too early.

  • @jordanlundEnglish
    58•3 days ago

    At first I was like “WTF does an indie games site have to do with Funko?” then I Googled it…

    Looks like they hosted a BUNCH of infringing games, so Funko, instead of doing the righteous thing and sending them a takedown request, just nuked the whole domain…

    • DacoTacoEnglish
      47•3 days ago

      Sounds about right for funko lol.
      ( though tbh, listing all games that taken the funko brand would be a massive task lol ).

      Still, this one hell of a messy shit i wouldnt want to touch legally haha

      • I Cast FistEnglish
        10•3 days ago

        though tbh, listing all games that taken the funko brand would be a massive task lol

        That’s what the brandshield “AI” was supposed to automate. Hell, I could possibly cobble some python script to crawl through itch and create a list of infriging games/devs, something that wouldn’t take more than 1 day.

        • DacoTacoEnglish
          6•3 days ago

          Sure, but for a lawsuit you should also validate that list to make sure there were no mistakes. Same should have happened with the ai bot. But nooooo, too many people takes scripts and ai output as facts -_-

    • @nixcamicEnglish
      8•3 days ago

      So from what I’ve heard at least some of those are just fan pages that just link to the official site.