Bogus Complaint Disables Itch.io, Google Ignored Same Sender For Years
Bogus Complaint Disables Itch.io, Google Ignored Same Sender For Years
Itch.io is offline today after its domain was suspended based on a bogus "fraud/phishing" complaint that should've been a DMCA takedown notice.
Indie videgame portal Itch.io is effectively offine today after a brand protection company reported the platform for "fraud/phishing" for what was a problem easily solved using a DMCA notice. According to Google's transparency databases, the same company has repeatedly attempted to use the DMCA to solve alleged trademark infringement but had its complaints rejected.
I’d love to find a CIDR blocklist for BrandShield. I’m not hosting any piracy content on any domains that I own, but I’d still love to simply close any connections they might make to my server.
Crazy stuff.
I don't know about their scans and whatnot, but their website is hosted on Amazon, so probably not straightforward to block them (and not block other stuff).
I actively avoid using AWS for most stuff so I could probably get by blocking all AWS IP blocks. Though of course that could change if someone was consuming my API from EC2, Kubernetes or whatever on AWS.
I can currently visit https://itch.io/ just fine from NL, even without browser cache.
Is this already resolved, or is it only a problem in some regions such as the USA?