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Doesn't CrowdStrike have more important things to do right now than try to take down a parody site?

That's what IT consultant David Senk wondered when CrowdStrike sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice targeting his parody site ClownStrike.

Senk created ClownStrike in the aftermath of the largest IT outage the world has ever seen—which CrowdStrike blamed on a buggy security update that shut down systems and incited prolonged chaos in airports, hospitals, and businesses worldwide....

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

they should update their homepage to a forced download of an empty index.html

[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

https://clownstrike.lol/crowdmad/

This line:

P.S. Don’t your lawyers have more important shit to be doing right now anyway?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah but then it would not be a clownstrike...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I love this

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don’t see anything on the parody ClownStrike site that infringes the DMCA. At best, Crowdstrike might have a valid trademark infringement claim, but DMCA is only for copyright infringement claims, not trademark claims.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They should have used their software to bring it down. We all know that will do it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

...provided it runs on CrowdStrike-protected systems. I would expect the site's operator to make sure to avoid that if they can help it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

You sonofa.. Made me spill my drink...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Clown Strike’s only real crime is kerning.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

thats not kerning, that's justification ☝️🤓️

kerning refers to the spacing between individual letters in the words, and justification is a method of typograghic alignment where space between words is stretched to make text flush with both left and right margins

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yup, kerning vs keming.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My name is Nathan Fielder, And I graduated from one of Canada's top business schools with really good grades.

The plan: turn this website into the world's first parody cybersecurity platform

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We will call it… Dumb Crowdstrike.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Crowdstrike IS the parody of what Crowdstrike purported itself to be.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Funny that clownstrike.com redirects to crowdstrike.com. I tried this before seeing the .lol domain. Lol

[–] [email protected] 203 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Using the DMCA as a censorship tool needs to be a criminal offense subject to jail time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Agreed 100%, it's tactics similar to slapp lawsuits, and either shouldn't be allowed and require jail time when abused

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why that’s literally what it was designed to do

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It is, but this isn't. The DMCA doesn't mention Trademark. That's a separate section of law because copyright and trademark are different things.

Crowdstrike submitting a DMCA takedown for alleged Trademark infringement isn't how it's supposed to work at all. Likely because they know this isn't actually a Trademark infringement case.

Cloudflare's automated system not being smart enough to see that is fine. Their abuse/counterclaim process being broken isn't. ( Not that that's new or unique )

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The ClownStrike person didn’t attempt to use Cloudflare’s counterclaim system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Cloudflare's counterclaim system didn't open a ticket when the notification email was replied to.

That's the kind of nonsense you expect from a local municipality hosting solution. Not one of the biggest on the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

DMCA was designed to prevent intellectual property infringement, not as a censorship tool.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes that's exactly what the person you replied to was saying.

DMCA was built to save IP, however it's routinely abused and used for censorship. And not a single thing is done to the abusers so they continue with their nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No they literally said that DMCA was designed for censorship...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Copyright assholes got a seat at the table when it was being drafted everyone else was given the finger. Its designed to be easily abused. Accidently on purpose, if you get me.

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