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…
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
We will call it… Dumb Crowdstrike.
Crowdstrike IS the parody of what Crowdstrike purported itself to be.
Using the DMCA as a censorship tool needs to be a criminal offense subject to jail time.
Why that’s literally what it was designed to do
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 )
The ClownStrike person didn’t attempt to use Cloudflare’s counterclaim system.
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.
DMCA was designed to prevent intellectual property infringement, not as a censorship tool.
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.
No they literally said that DMCA was designed for censorship…
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.
Agreed 100%, it’s tactics similar to slapp lawsuits, and either shouldn’t be allowed and require jail time when abused
way to go, dorks. now i’ve heard of this site that i would have never heard of if you hadn’t streissanded it. and i for one approve
I am kinda PO’ed I didn’t come up with this on my own lol
They should have used their software to bring it down. We all know that will do it.
…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.
You sonofa… Made me spill my drink…
Apparently, Cloudflare never received either of Senk’s counter notices, which is a problem since Cloudflare only allows a 72-hour window to contest a takedown notice.
This sounds like ClownFlare outright lying through its teeth. Probably not even to defend ClownStrike, but to not look incompetent.
I think it’s time to expand the Clown-Empire and add ClownSocialServices.lol and ClownFlare to its Vassals.
What do we call the head of state? The Witish Clown?The POTCS (President of The Circus States)? The Top Wig?
Funny that clownstrike.com redirects to crowdstrike.com. I tried this before seeing the .lol domain. Lol
While parody sites are not the intended target of these efforts, it’s possible for such sites to be inadvertently impacted. We will review the process and, where appropriate, evolve ongoing anti-fraud activities.
Hmm, I think I’ve heard something like that before…
But it pledged Wednesday to keep software glitches like last week’s from happening again, and to publicly release a more detailed analysis when it becomes available.
The company added that it is developing a new check for its validation system “to guard against this type of problematic content from being deployed in the future.
“Oops!”
Clown Strike’s only real crime is kerning.
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
Yup, kerning vs keming.
they should update their homepage to a forced download of an empty index.html
Sounds like they could use some more sites linking to them to improve SEO. https://clownstrike.lol/
It’s blocked on my work computer, saying it’s a malware website
Accessible through my corporate network. Fun thing, that.
"The category of https://clownstrike.lol/ is Phishing
This site has been reviewed recently. We are not accepting category change requests at this time."
Fortinet filter lmao
ill manually whitelist them on my fleet rofl
This. This is why we invented the internet. Well this and porn.
this is so tame lmao
That was a good read with him documenting and sharing everything.
Full Streisand effect.
Senk received a DMCA notice from Cloudflare’s trust and safety team, which was then hosting the parody site.
Cloudflare sent themselves a DMCA takedown notice, instead of just taking down the content from their own web hosting for violating their policies. Weird.
DMCA takedown notices are not preemptively judged on their merits before filing. Anyone can file a frivolous takedown notice, just as anyone can file a frivolous lawsuit.
Yes parody is protected speech under fair use. Yes, companies are required to account for fair use before filing takedown notices. These things would come up if the case goes to trial which is unlikely.
Cloudflare and Crowdstrike are different companies.
ooooooopppppps someday I will learn to read
Lmao what a legend. How would DMCA even apply in this case though? Parodies are free speech
I don’t see anything on that site that infringes the DMCA. At best they might have a trademark violation claim, but DMCA is only for copyright claims, not trademark claims.
The only real use of trademark I could find was actually on the twitter account clownstrike took a picture of, unless they seriously want to try and tell is they think the name could be confused for theirs with a straight face.
They don’t. Companies regularly abuse DMCA notices because the law REQUIRES a hosting company to take down the information immediately.
It allows 14 days for the same information to be restored after receiving a counter notice.
I think if DMCAs are abused, it should limit the company’s ability to file one in the future.
and if not… regular people could do the same
It should require jail time if abused.
Laws only apply to poor people. If you submit a bogus DMCA that takes down a corporation’s site, they will sue you so hard your children’s children will be paying off the debt.
It’s all by design. The level of damage is measured by capital, and not by how illegitimate, anti-competitive, immoral, or criminal the actions are.
Maybe laylow and STFU crowdstrike? You know what never mind, pour fuel on the fire burning below you - go out screaming you turds.
I love this
