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 least you'd expect claims to be automatically dropped when coming from an assumptive/disingenuous party. Something like "you issued 100 wrong claims so we won't listen to your 101st one, sod off". But nah.

As such, "your violating muh inrelactual properry, remove you're conrent 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.

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

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

This new uh, tactic? of going after a registrar instead of a hosting provider with reports is a little concerning.

There's an awful lot of little registrars that don't have any real abuse department and nobody is going to do shit other than exactly this: take it down and worry about it next week when they have time.

It really feels like your choice of registrar is becoming as much or more important than your choice of hosting provider, and the little indie guys are probably the wrong choice if you're running a legitimate business as you're gonna need one that has enough funding and a proper team to vet reports before clobbering your site.

On the OTHER hand, Network Solutions is just took down DigitalOcean for no reason, so maybe they all suck?

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 figure business, maybe they could just make figures that look good, and thus avoid infringing Funko Pop's style.

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.

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

edit: their xitter account is dead, right? The latest post that it shows without log in is from 2022