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leafo 7 hours ago | next [-] 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 and phishing" going on, likely to cause escalation instead of doing the expected DMCA/cease-and-desist. Because of this, I honestly think they're the malicious actor in all of this. Their website, if you care: https://www.brandshield.com/ About 5 or 6 days ago, I received these reports on our host (Linode) and from our registrar (iwantmyname). I expressed my disappointment in my responses to both of them but told them I had removed the page and disabled the account. Linode confirmed and closed the case. iwantmyname never responded. This evening, I got a downtime alert, and while debugging, I noticed that the domain status had been set to "serverHold" on iwantmyname's domain panel. We have no other abuse reports from iwantmyname other than this one. I'm assuming no one on their end "closed" the ticket, so it went into an automatic system to disable the domain after some number of days. I've been trying to get in touch with them via their abuse and support emails, but no response likely due to the time of day, so I decided to "escalate" the issue myself on social media.

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Pirate Software @PirateSoftware Subscribe So instead of filing a DMCA claim to itch.io you sent a takedown request to their registrar. Are you incompetent or just lying about your intentions? Wild behavior. B BrandShield @BrandShieldltd. 12h Replying to @BrandShieldltd and @itchio We identified and reported the infringement, and requested a takedown of the URL in question - not of the entire itch.io domain. The temporary takedown of the website was a decision made by the service providers, not BrandShield. (3/4) Readers added context Entire domains do not go down on the basis of copyright takedown request of an individual URL. This is the direct result of a fraudulent claim of malicious activity. x.com/itchio/status/... Do you find this helpful? Rate it 9:06 PM Dec 9, 2024 614.6K Views
Somehow this is even more disturbing and pathetic than that time Hasbro sicced the Pinkertons on a guy for a shipping error.
птичка на скейте @Ravinggus - 2h "I'd rather smoke crack than buy a funko pop Gwyneth Paltrow " itch.io @itchio - 8h I kid you not, @itchio has been taken down by @OriginalFunko because they use some trash "Al Powered" Brand Protection Software called @BrandShieldltd that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, @iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
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