Please remove stolen intellectual property

[leafo]

You have stolen the UI of itch.io, blatantly ripping it off, in addition to using our name directly in your project. As far as I'm concerned, this is scam to trick people by using @itchio's established brand on an unrelated project for your own profit.

I request that you immediately remove any likeness, including our name, from your project.

Additionally, upon going through the content on your platform, it appears you have stolen many games (see rpgmaker.net) for reupload without the consent of the creators of the games. For the sake of respecting creators and their work, I request that you remove stolen content from your platform.

[iSaluki]

Please prioritize this. I've seen people confusing this website with itch, largely because of the name as well as the copied CSS.

[Garfield550]

Our project manager is not in the same time zone as us, we will have a meeting to discuss this, we don't have designers, only software engineers.

[quou]

A poorly designed UI is better than a stolen one.

I think you've done it with the hope of having people confuse your site with itch.io and piggyback off of itch.io's userbase. You could have used a pre-designed website template. It's a sorry excuse to say you have no designers.

[Garfield550]

@quou We will communicate with the project manager about looking for new designs, we have no right to do anything until then.

[moburkhardt]

you have no right to steal designs either

[Garfield550]

@moburkhardt It's our project manager's decision, we'll talk about the design and then change it.

[willofdaedalus]

Would you be touting this "project manager" nonsense if it were a Big Tech company breathing down ya neck? Please respect yourself and do the needful

[iSaluki]

It is unacceptable to be shipping something that blatantly copies somebody else's hard work. I do not plan to use your service, but I don't like seeing smaller people like itch being put through this kind of issue. If you haven't removed all infringing content by this time tomorrow, I will contact Namecheap's abuse department.

Please take this seriously.

[Garfield550]

@IamDaedalus Our company closed earlier this year, and now we are doing projects for him personally.

[Garfield550]

@iSaluki Do whatever you want, the domain owner is not me.

[iSaluki]

That doesn't make it right that this project exists and does what it is doing. Just because you aren't the domain owner does not mean that you have no responsibility for this as a contributor.

[Garfield550]

A dangerous sentence here has been deleted.

[iSaluki]

I don't see how this is a totalitarian society, and I don't see how that would impact your ability to remove IP violations. All people are asking you to do is remove content you do not own the rights to. Is that really that unreasonable?

[Garfield550]

@iSaluki @Lothrazar I don't have GitHub org management, I don't have server management, I don't own domain names, all I do is talk to you guys and tell other people these things.

I'm really sorry...

[iSaluki]

I understand, thanks for letting us know. Could you update people here when something happens?

[Garfield550]

@iSaluki I will do my best.

[iSaluki]

Thank you

[Garfield550]

Update: All games on the site have now been removed.

[joshsleeper]

@Garfield550 the request of this issue was to remove all likeness to itch.io, which as far as I can tell still remains. Please reopen this issue to continue tracking this work.

[quou]

@joshsleeper The site no longer exists, only the GitHub repositories remain.

[joshsleeper]

That's better although if the repositories contain itch.io source as they did previously that also needs to be removed to be compliant with the issue request, and likely itch.io source code licensing

[Garfield550]

@joshsleeper Our project manager @lychees are recruiting designers, once the design is complete, we will open a new Issue to track it.

[joshsleeper]

I appreciate the intent here, really, but that doesn't change the fact that the request for this issue was to remove the design and content stolen from itch.io, which I believe still hasn't been completed.

Until that's done you should really leave this issue open for tracking and accountability, especially since it was literally opened by the creator of itch.io.

Closing this story and opening a new one for the same thing phrased differently serves no purpose other than adding a layer of abstraction to confuse the possibly hundreds of people trying to follow the progress and ensure this is properly resolved.

Feel free to rename the issue to be something your team finds more appropriately actionable if you must, but please reopen this story and actually use it for updates.

[Garfield550]

@lychees Please reopen this issue.

[BenoitAnastay]

The test server is still running

[BStrauss3]

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