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Itch.io games site taken down
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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.
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...
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
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.
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 -_-
So from what I've heard at least some of those are just fan pages that just link to the official site.