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.
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Perhaps funko needs their claims adjusted.
Or Tenfingers (shameless plug)
Interesting
I’m ironing out some quirks at the moment (a vulnerability was found and I’m profiting off that I had to do some core modifs to do some refacts too), if you’re interested you can sub to !tenfingers@lemmy.mindoki.com I’ll post an update when things get rolling.
Ok then
Might be a good time to change domain while you’re at it, if .io is about to be retired.
It probably won’t be.
Not only is the agreement between the UK and Mauritius on the brink of collapsing (bizarrely, the UK is trying to get rid of territory and Mauritius doesn’t particularly want it very much), but there’s so much reliance on the .io domain that it’s unlikely to be removed.
Especially because tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Apple make use of it.
ICANN is pretty strict about this following some complications that happened back in the 90’s . No country, no country code, no domain. No matter who, no matter what.
The only thing you can rely on from ICANN is that they will do whatever is most profitable for their board members.
Though they have made odd decisions before. IO is generic and widely-used enough that it doesn’t seem implausible that they might change it to not be tied to the Indian Ocean territories.
.io will be removed from a country code and over to a cosmetic domain like .sex
It’s really not that complicated
That would make it the only 2 letter non country code top level domain. And could also cause issues if another country is later assigned io as it’s 2 letter country code by ISO
No, it would make it the second 2 letter non country code top level domain. .su is the other.
No it would be the first. .su is still considered a CCTLD http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/su.html
And so could .io
I mean,
.sustill exists.That is the event that icann uses as it’s reason to be strict about it.
And so do Soviet Union too. /s
I will take it
They want to change it? But why?
I think they are referring to this.
As in, it’s not that they want, they might have to.
more details by itch.io dev
What HN client is this?
where is hacker news
Perfect ⭐ Thank you
Leafo
I’m the one running itch.io, so here’s some more context for you:
From what 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, 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 had removed the page and disabled the account. Linode confirmed and closed the case. iwantmyname never responded. This evening, 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 decided to “escalate” the issue myself on social media.
(OCR)
I’ve always hated funkopops, they’re ugly and the very epitome of the enshitification and commercialisation of geek culture. This does nothing to change my mind
My mom got me my first one in 2019 or 2020 because she thought it was cute (Guyfolye from Silicon Valley). A few months later she asked me if they were just Beanie Babies and I thought that was the end of it. Now every Christmas I get one even though she knows I don’t like them and we both snark on the super niche weird ones. She even got custom ones for me and my wife last year. It never ends, and I have 6 sets of beady little eyes staring at me when I’m watching TV in the basement.
I feel like you need to hear this: just because someone gifts you something doesn’t mean you need to keep it endlessly, or at all. Donate/giveaway/trash.
I know, I’ve been trying to work on it. Moving furniture and throwing away things is pretty hard for me.
My partner has an entire bookcase of them, all still in box.
Get them out and play with them!
I wouldn’t say the epitome, have you heard of The Big Bang Theory?
I wouldn’t say that show commercialized geek culture. It seemed to me it was more about how geek culture should be the butt of jokes. And ASD people as well.
The FOMO based businesses are preying on people with poor impulse control…which there are no shortage of in the nerd world.
A true death of art.
I remember going through the prices my buddy paid for his with actual sculptures on Etsy and him just getting more and more annoyed. He’s probably going to have a Funko themed wedding next year.
Yes and they’re yet another collectible product that exploits the psychology of a subset of people who compulsively collect things. I put them in the same category as gambling and note that there’s a lot of crossover with these things (loot boxes and CCG booster packs being prime examples of a gambling and collectible combo).
Yeah, I hate those assholes too. I feel bad for anyone who falls for their business model.
Glances at my Tyranid collection
At least you can actually do something with those ‘Nids.
At least you can play a game with 'Nid models. Also have you guys gotten any updated models yet? I know you guys were in the same boat as the Skaven for quite awhile.
10th gave us a ton! New Gaunts, Hormagaunts, Lictors, Deathleapers, biovores, Screamer fex, and 4 new units!!
Fucken A dude, I know the Gaunts were getting crusty. Now if only Games Workshop would update some of the non-Cadian Guard models, I want some non-forgeworld Armageddon Steel Legion models.
They did mother fucking Krieg!!
I know but I want my other gas mask boys damnit!
Yes, Inquisitor. This one right here. They have been proclaiming something about the Star Children.
I hope this teaches them the valuable lesson of always having domains with more than one registrar.
Or, hopefully, we migrate to a system more advanced than DNS registrars where your “name” can be taken down by an unrelated third party. The current system sucks and the fact that even the Fediverse relies on it (accounts are tied to domains, making full account migration impossible) makes even the remains of my pre-graduate CS student brain rumble.
what do you mean
Maybe he’s talking about some sort of peer to peer thing
maybe
Or even blockchain!
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Most appropriately named domain registrar ever? They should have just gone ahead and named it iwantmynamebackgoddammit.
Welcome to Web 3 I guess. Automated systems ignoring real actors
Web 3 was crypto scams, we’re up to web 6 or 7 by now
AI scams
Web 3.0 was actually the Semantic Web originally, the cryptobros are bad at counting.
Not only is this absolutely inexcusable, also, Funko Pops are ugly and creepy-looking and I don’t understand why people spend so much money on them just because they look vaguely like the characters or people they’re supposed to represent.
God I hate our whole system.
Funko pops are for people that lack a personality and try to create one by buying dumb shit that sits on a shelf and depreciates in value. They’re just memecoin bros
It’s beanie babies 2.0
Hey.
Just because I dont have a personality and try desperately to fit in doesnt mean I am as stupid as the cryptobro morons.
That’s basically what I was trying to say, but you put it better. Thank you.
Back up at least
This is the future of Feudalism
AI will take our jobsAI will create more jobs because there will be dedicated staff who needs to handle the fallout when it does stupid shit
Turns out we can solve the unemployment crisis by just creating problems for ourselves! Let’s start throwing eggs at windows to get window cleaners more business.
This is surely what Reagan envisioned every Spring.
Yeah but it’s gonna be those slimy lawer-types
I mean, it sounds like a lawsuit to me.
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A takedown request was issued on false grounds.
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This takedown was then actioned without any due process.
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The issue has caused tangible, and measurable, loss (calculable from prior sales records).
Honestly, there needs to be a fixed penalty fine for bad takedowns…
Funko would drag a lawsuit out for years, but Itch might have the spite to push through it.
They’d probably settle. It’s not worth the cost to funko either
Takedown requests being spammed everywhere is sort of standard, what’s crazy is that their domain holder immediately honored the request, completely ignoring how massive itch io is with millions of users…
Fixed penalties just become the cost of doing business. Like actors, we need to start asking for percentage of gross.
Imo we need to start attaching criminal penalties to the people behind businesses that *knowingly *abuse their power and position like this. Corporate bullying isn’t a financial position, it’s a failing of ethics.
Yup. The first couple of times might have been a mistake subject to fine. The third time you’re facing criminal contempt of the rule of law.
Imagine if in America, corporations were subject to the three strike rule
Fixed minimum penalty
I believe all of this is legal thanks to DMCA.
They made a false fraud report, not a DMCA takedown (which shouldn’t have taken down the entire site anyway).
The DMCA doesn’t make false requests legal (I’m also not sure if this specific issue falls under the DMCA), but it does fail to define any meaningful penalty for making them.
Maybe if they followed the dmca process
Domain names arent copyrightable. This falls into trademark laws.
Would the lawsuit be against funko or the registrar (or both) ?
Probably both if you can make the case for it. Funko for the false request, the registrar for not doing their due diligence in honoring it. Depending on the wording of the law the registrar may be off the hook however, so whether there’s a case to be brought there would be a question for their lawyers.
Hopefully this ruins Funko Fucks
Honestly, there needs to be a fixed penalty fine for bad takedowns…
Absolutely not, fixed fines become expected costs, and immensely favor monied actors. Make it percentage based so it hurts equally, and rich people actually have to pay a measurable amount.
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WTF
