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There's little reason to give BrandShield the benefit of the doubt, but there's plenty of reason for Funko to pause and collect all the right information before making specific statements about what happened.

Remember that there's some specific set of nontechnical people running comms at Funko, and they've probably never heard of a domain registrar before today. At a minimum they have to gather the stories they're hearing from both BrandShield and itch.io, identify who at Funko has the technical background to judge between the two, and convince that person to take time away from her normal responsibilities to evaluate some weird drama she doesn't care about.

>>SpicyL+(OP)
That's why I wasn't talking about Funko at all.

Don't get me wrong, I find Funko's products to be overpriced trash that I don't understand why it fills up stores anywhere vaguely related to any kind of fandom, and I wish they would disappear, but that's neither here nor there.

BrandShield on the other hand I believe at this point we can reasonably have the pitchforks out for them and any other companies of their kind. Companies that exist to issue takedown requests, ironically, need to be taken down. Destroy them all. The world is a worse place for their existence.

>>SpicyL+(OP)
When the system is riddled with holes, inefficiencies and micro-bureaucracies, and dealing with them it handled by outsourcing, it's incredibly easy to pass the buck around for all involved parties, in an effective game of Keep Away until any moderately frustrated invdividual simply gives up.