IP Slapstick: How Everyone From Funko To A Registrar Fucked Up And Briefly Took Down Itch.io

There are lots of ways for an individual person or entity to err when it comes to intellectual property enforcement such that it negatively impacts a website or business. But if you want to get really frustrated, what you need is several entities demonstrating complete incompetence in how they do business and making a victim out of an innocent website. That’s how you get a situation where Itch.io, famed indie video game platform, was taken down for several hours.

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