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From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!

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See also Gaming's sister community Tabletop Gaming.

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Itch.io was taken down by funko pop (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Like once a month we have a fake site pop up using the name of our business with 1-2 characters changed. They use a web crawler to scrape all the content off our domain and they re-host all of our products on a woocommerce site where they steal our customers credit card information.

These all use cloudflare to conceal the hosting providers, who are entirely non-responsive without a police report or WIPO ruling. When all is said and done, the content is being hosted in China, Russia, or South Africa, meaning the only way to remove the content is from the registrar's, because they are the only link in the chain that actually has to comply