Cool. Itch.io went down for 6 hours because a completely automated IP protection system mid-identified something on their site, sent an overblown "fraud and phishing" report to their registrar without even contacting Itch, and the completely automated registrar did not properly action the report and just shut the domain off despite getting a timely counter-report from Itch.
and because none of this followed a proper legal channel with good faith requirements and was instead done via bespoke "report fraud" workflows, no one's butt is going to end up in the fire over it.
Augh :)
bad, violent
@elfi I've been thinking a bit on what the response should be. Even if it was decided threatening someone was the right call, who do you even threaten here? Funko for hiring these scammers? The assholes themselves for completely automating false fraud reports? The registrar for almost killing an entire sub-market single-handedly with their lax policies? All of them?
In theory if this had to go through more proper channels, someone woulda been on the hook for fraud or bad faith practice of law, but they didn't, so no one is.
Not that I trust those channels; the DMCA for example gets abused every day without consequence.
Things like this make one want to just start throwing bricks in every direction until things change.