Itch.io was taken down by funko pop

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  As of now the site is already back.

  The core of the problem is that there’s absolutely nothing effectively preventing companies from abusing IP claims to harass whoever they want.

  At the very least, you’d expect claims being automatically dropped, when they’re coming from an assumptive party that already issued multiple confirmedly false claims; something like “you issued 100 wrong claims so we won’t listen to your 101s one, sod off”. But nah, there’s nothing like this…

  As such, “your violating muh inrelactual properry, remove you’re contant now!!!” has zero cost, and a thousand benefits. Of course they’d abuse it.

  The role of AI in this situation is simply to provide those companies a tool to issue more and faster claims, at the expense of an already low accuracy.

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  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    IP 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.

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    • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Couldn’t it be weaponized right back at them. What’s stopping an individual?

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  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Does the DMCA protect claimants against liability if they make incorrect or spurious claims?

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    • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      [Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor from any country following Saxon tribal law like USA. Take what I say with a grain of salt.]

      As far as I know, in theory the victim of the bogus DMCA could sue the copyright troll for damages, including attorney fees and all that stuff. In practice, it would be the same as nothing, megacorp who hired the copyright troll would make sure that the victim knows its place.

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  • millie@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I mean, there is. DMCA essentially protects content hosts from copyright claims. When they get a DMCA notice, they remove the material and inform the user whose material is removed. If they want to contest it, they can submit a counter notice denying the claim and basically saying “take me to court then”, with their contact info so a suit can be filed. At this point, if nothing is filed in a two week period, the host is free to consider the initial takedown notice void.

    Sending a takedown notice under DMCA that’s knowingly false is perjury, which would presumably come up at the court hearing.

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    • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The problem is that defending against a copyright troll in the court is an expensive headache, and the copyright troll has a whole army of lawyers to prove for sure that the Moon is made of green cheese. As such, even if the target knows that it’s a bogus claim, they still comply with the troll to avoid the court.

      Sending a takedown notice under DMCA that’s knowingly false is perjury, which would presumably come up at the court hearing.

      In theory, yes. In practice, good luck proving that the copyright troll knew it and acted maliciously.

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• SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  [Sarcasm] Yet ‘AI’ is the future and will solve everything.

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  • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I put it in all my cars! I use it to write all my emails! I sprinkle it on my cereal and eat it for breakfast!

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    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      wait you don’t mean microplastics

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I am considering writing it on my car’s tyres, so that I get to run it over all the time

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• GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  As if I didn’t already have enough of a reason to hate funko!

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• Buttons@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  How does one steal Funko Pop’s IP? Create an ugly figure with a giant head and no face? Is that so common that they need an AI system to watch for IP infringement?

  If a company wanted to get into the figuring business, maybe they could just make figures that look good, and thus avoid infringing Funko Pop’s style.

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• theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Ironic how often funko goes out of their way to piss off gamers, given how much they seem to view gamers as a target demographic.

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  • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Maybe their new target demo is their families and spouses, someone who will pick it up thinking “on I remember seeing something like that, they’ll love it!”

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    • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Lol I hate how right you are

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• Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  why on their website they still link their (now abandoned) xitter account instead of the active bluesky account?

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  • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    AFAIK if you’re not logged in to shitter it doesn’t give you any sort of chronological post ordering

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    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      it completely negates the usefulness of a site like that

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