https://clownstrike.lol/crowdmad/ Return to Clownin' Oh No! The Clown Services Company is coming after ClownStrike! Neat! We made the top of Hacker News! [hn] The Clown Services Company is a company used by companies like CrowdStrike to submit bogus takedowns and commit cyberbullying. [csc-logo-f] It seems as though CrowdStrike is not exactly a fan of this site, understandable... it is a parody site after all... Don't worry though! They will definitely solve all their problems by sending a baseless takedown notice to CloudFlare! (sarcasm) [clowdstrik] Unfortunately for them, I don't really care about their feelings, and how upset this site makes them, or how much they cry at night knowing that there are people out in the world making fun of CrowdStrike for causing the worst IT outage in the world (so far!). Stranding millions of airlines passengers, and causing billions of dollars worth of damage... We finally know what caused the global tech outage - and how much it cost What we know about CrowdStrike's update fail that's causing global outages and travel chaos CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times" and get more complex from there Major outages at CrowdStrike, Microsoft leave the world with BSODs and confusion Microsoft says 8.5M systems hit by CrowdStrike BSOD, releases USB recovery tool How a software update from cyber firm CrowdStrike caused one of the world's biggest IT blackouts Chaos and Confusion: Tech Outage Causes Disruptions Worldwide Widespread IT Outage Due to CrowdStrike Update CrowdStrike outage explained: What caused it and what's next Of course, I did not want to piss off CloudFlare either, and I'm most definitely not trying to put CloudFlare in the middle on this... so I told CloudFlare that I will take the site off of CloudFlare; however, it is staying on the internet... [abuse-resp] It is unfortunately well known that the DMCA is used by corporate cyberbullies to take down content that they disagree with; but, is otherwise legal. The Counternotice system is also hillariously ineffective. The DMCA requires service providers to "act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the infringing material; " yet, it gives those same "service providers" 14 days to restore access in the event of a counternotice! The DMCA, like much American legislation, is heavily biased towards corporations, instead of the actual, living, breathing, citizens of the country. It's absolutely asinine and I would love absolutely nothing more than to have a lawsuit "win" against CrowdStrike. That would be absolutely amazing for marketing! Especially given the timing of such events... Additionally, using the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to attempt to takedown a parody site for Trademark Infringement is absolutely hillarious. There are several ways that anyone is allowed to use a trademark belonging to "others." This is considered "Fair Use." Fair Use is an important aspect of trademark and copyright law. It is a right to use trademarks and copyrighted works for parody, criticism, transformative works, news reporting / journalism, education, etc. Corporate cyberbullies don't like that anyone else has rights. Again, I don't care, because the only thing that matters is the law, and what a court thinks about it. Luckily... Parody is a well recognized "right" for "fair use" TRADEMARK LAW: PARODY and the Fine Line Between Humor and Trademark Infringement Supreme Court Ruling Confirms Limits on Parody Defenses to Trademark Claims Satire and Parody in the Recent SCOTUS Decisions Laugh It Off: A Guide to Parody Under U.S. Trademark Law Parody Products: When Should Brand Owners "Smile or Laugh" and When Should They Sue? Additionally, there is a statutory exclusion for "Any noncommercial use of a mark" in 15 U.S. Code SS 1125 (c)(3)(c). Seeing as how this site is an obvious parody, that any "reasonable person" would be able to cleary identify AND there is no commercial use, no product being sold, no money being made in any way, shape, or form... You can go straight to hell CrowdStrike. This is fair use. Fuck your feelings. Now... Return to Clownin' P.S. Don't your lawyers have more important shit to be doing right now anyway? P.P.S. btw George you look great in a clown suit: [George_Kur] CrowdStrike, Inc., CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. License for this derivative work is also under CC BY-SA 4.0 (c) 2024 ClownStrike Inc.