Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop
merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 week agoIP and copyright laws have been the bane of the internet. Not only stifling fair use but it has become nothing but weaponised for corporate warfare. the DMCA isn’t fit for purpose.
Quexotic@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Couldn’t it be weaponized right back at them. What’s stopping an individual?
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
An individual would risk corporate lawyers lobbing suits at them they don’t have nearly enough resources to fight. In that way, it’s much like other forms of activism: individual actions are easily singled out and retaliated against.
If a ton of people were to do so, however, they might have an impact. Either the registrar would have to take steps to limit who can submit them, which might conflict with some laws, or they’d invest a great deal of resources trying to sort out the legit ones. Trying to single out people for retaliation is hard when there’s enough of them. In this way, too, it is like other forms of activism:
There is strength in numbers. There is power in unity.
If, hypothetically, someone were to coordinate such actions in the style of a crowdsources DDoS, and they could get enough participants, they might get away with it.
Crotaro@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Sounds like a job for a group similar to Anonymous, just less focused on actual illegal activities and instead just playing out the legal methods of fighting against corporations.
Quexotic@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Interesting point. I’ll keep it in mind.
Apepi@dormi.zone 1 week ago
Getting sued for all your bananas by companies much richer than you.
Quexotic@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Fairnuff.