Either Funko is lying or their “brand protection partner” is lying. Also, what the fuck does Funko have to protect? The only thing they actually created was those beady little eyes they put on everyone else’s IP.
Funko gets community noted
Submitted 5 weeks ago by Battle_Masker@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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hperrin@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
ripcord@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What is one of them lying about?
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The bit where they said itch.io was hosting fraud and phishing.
hperrin@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The nature and scope of the request.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Funko and their “partner” should be fined for fraud.
ReCursing@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
Funko should shut down out of embarrassment. Not about this specifically, just because of their entire product line
pacology@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“We reached out to itch.io” aka we called his mom.
Wogi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If my kid is running a website and some fucking lawyer calls me about copyright bullshit, that fucker is getting 100% of my pent up salty rage.
I have a very particular set of skills, and they only make me a nightmare for a very specific type of situation.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Momleash the beast
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
It would be a real shame if abuse@dtnt.com (the domain registrar of brandshield.com) were to get a bunch of reports about scams and illegal activity found on the website. Bonus points for copying legal@dtnt.com.
kautau@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Make sure to link their actual site to since those all exist as redirect pages:
This registrar is such hot garbage that it stinks of just one individual or group controlling the whole thing from the registrar level to the few domains they provide. Their contact form page won’t even load for me. * continues to poke around*
Oh what do you know, the registrar and “BrandShield” are run by the same guy
www.crunchbase.com/person/david-fridman
Sounds like the reports should go directly to ICANN for ignoring reports about domains on their registration list
uis@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Imagine if enough people will write to ICANN and ICANN will ban them. That would certanly be something I did not expect in 2024.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Opening the first link on my phone redirected me to a mobile site in an rtl language (hebrew?) 🤣
I think the best part about it is that it even has a
/enin the original url.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We reached out the admin of Itch.io’s mother and made threats against her.
That’s the real situation.
Funko is a corrupt, evil company.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Apparently I’ve just shared in Funko Pop’s passion for creativity.
Is this a different language that sounds deceptively like English? I feel like someone wrote this by ruining whale song through an LLM.
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Funko: Hey, chatgpt… Write an apology letter to the gaming community about getting itch.io shut down. Something like “Sorry, we fucked up. Please don’t hate us and continue to buy our stuff!” but make it sound like it came from an intern in HR.
Chatgpt: I got you fam…
kitnaht@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Bro, GhatGPT wrote a better apology:
Dear Community,
Look, we know we sell little plastic figures—not games, not platforms, not anything remotely digital—but somehow, we’ve managed to trip over our own shoelaces and knock something precious to all of you right off the shelf. Yes, we’re talking about itch.io, and yes, we understand the gravity of what happened.
We’re not going to sugarcoat it: we messed up. We’re not entirely sure how the dominoes fell this way, but somehow, through a series of unfortunate events (and probably some poorly-thought-out legal maneuvers), our actions have impacted an entire community that thrives on creativity and passion. That was never our intention, and it’s not who we want to be.
The truth is, we’re sitting here staring at our little figures, wondering how something so small can lead to such a big screw-up. We know this affects you, and we’re genuinely sorry for the frustration, confusion, and anger we’ve caused.
We don’t expect forgiveness overnight, but please know we’re working hard to make this right. We’re talking to the people who actually know what they’re doing (because, let’s face it, we clearly don’t), and we’re committed to doing better moving forward.
We value this community more than you realize, even if we’ve done a poor job of showing it. Thank you for your patience, and we hope you’ll give us the chance to earn back your trust—not just with our figures, but with our actions.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Apologies use the word “sorry” and take responsibility. This isn’t an apology.
homesnatch@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Some people are looking past the partner or putting “partner” in quotes.
Funko doesn’t handle these takedown requests, they hired BrandShield for this. BrandShield definitely went overboard and their reputation is at risk.
I’ve shopped around for brand protection in the past when scammers registered a domain name with my company’s name in it, and used it to do fake job offers. We got the domain suspended by contacting the registrar, but we didn’t know about it until it was reported to us.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
They did it on Funko Pop’s behalf, at their direction.
It’s perfectly fine to also blame the partner, but Funko Pop ultimately bears 100% of the responsibility for the actions they instigated.
gsfraley@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This, and further exacerbated by this post where they take no accountability.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I could go with this if they actually apologized and fired BrandShield. They did neither of those things, so have demonstrated their full endorsement of BrandShield’s fraudulent behavior.
homesnatch@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
They blamed the service provider… BrandShield called for removal of the page, not the whole site.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 weeks ago
The factory didn’t beat up the strikers. The Pinkertons did it. Don’t hate the factory owner who hired them to beat up the striking workers.
uis@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
They were hired specifically to go overboard and risk reputation. To shield brand from reputational damage of scorching internet. It’s even in their name.
Tsar is good, blame the boyars.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No, Funko’s reputation is at risk, as it should be.
Other companies should look at the situation and cease using BrandShield, but from a consumer standpoint, the blame falls squarely on Funko.
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
If you hire a hitman you’re still on the hook for murder. Making someone else do your dirty work does not absolve you. Especially when you’re a corporation and literally everything you do is through people you pay.
homesnatch@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Terrible analogy…
Brand protection is something that a lot of companies care about and many use third parties to handle it.
A much better analogy is if you were to hire security guards to protect your person and property and an overzealous guard kills someone. That happens often enough, we know the guard is on the hook, but the boss is rarely charged unless he was micro-managing it.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The sad thing I cant do anything more to hurt funko as I’ve never bought their stupid little dolls
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They’ve done enough to hurt themselves.
pachrist@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I am so confused by all this. It makes me feel old.
Funko is essentialy just plastic, shitty Beanie Babies, right? They do nothing original, from what I can tell.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
At united health care we really respect all the money we extract from all your dying folks and recently we noticed that one of you died one of us. So we started a manhunt for anyone of you and now we got a rando who sort of looks the part. Thank you for the inconvenience. We will be ghosts now since you won’t find any of our names online starting now…wait not, starting now!
oVerde@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We just need more Luigi
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Come on, man.
I support reigning in corrupt oligarchs (full asset seizure, 20 years mandatory community service as a live-in junior janitor in a hospice care facility) as much as the next person, but this is stupid.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Uh no, this was annoying but none of the companies involved deny care for sick people which increases their chance to die.
kworpy@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
wait bowser is back? motherfucker never learns
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Makes me wonder if the report was for something like itch.io/blah but it took the whole site down. If they’re not being dishonest, I could see going to registrar about a site imitating to be yours for phishing.
Funko still deserves some flak for, at least, using an automated tool (or a setting) that is so insanely aggressive. Maybe the registrar holds some blame too.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Maybe the registrar holds some blame too.
Frankly everyone involved in this situation looks bad except the victim who did nothing wrong.
Funko deserves blame for using a dodgy solution that they have no real understanding of.
The brand protection partner, whatever the hell they’re called, deserves blame for being scumbags who go for the nuclear eruption as a first result. Knowing full well how destructive and completely disproportionate of a response that is.
The registrar deserves blame for being utterly stupid and responding to a report without doing even the most minor of investigations first. Like I don’t know, looking at the website.
No one at any point attempted to reach out to the owner of the site, they called his mother for some reason, not the actual site administrator, so they didn’t make any legitimate attempt at contact.
I honestly have no idea what the end game here was supposed to be, because there’s no way in hell that this was ever going to end other than everyone looking like complete idiots. I honestly think that just everyone evolved here is just utterly incompetent.
I have never heard of this particular registrar but they’re going on my long list of registrars not to trust, alongside GoDaddy.
nutsack@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
this is the best thing post-musk twitter ever did and i hope the idea spreads to other platforms
donuts@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
zqps@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
It’s a matter of time before he sacks it. Kinda surprised he hasn’t already.
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s good in theory but still doesn’t work. If someone posts 2020 election lies, both sides have to approve the note and the conservative can veto it.
MissingInteger@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Here is the Hacker News link.
otp@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
What’s to say that this wasn’t just a combination of stupid actions?
Someone makes a report with the wrong category. Someone takes a way over-the-top action in response to the report.
There are a lot of idiots with a lot of power who do things without thinking them through.
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
combination of stupid actions
IT was certainly a combination of stupid actions. But about the time the called his mother, it got kinda personal.
RedStrider@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
meanwhile… Image
ILikePigeons@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
That is actually just disgusting.
cm0002@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Straight outta the scummy debt collector playbook
drmoodmood@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
What in the actual removed?
glimse@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Brother, you’re gonna need to find a new insurance if you wanna use bad words. Your comments get censored on .ml