[HN Gopher] CrowdStrike attempts takedown of parody site
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CrowdStrike attempts takedown of parody site
Author : clownstrikelol
Score : 256 points
Date : 2024-08-01 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| dmitrygr wrote:
| See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
| xanderlewis wrote:
| Do not click the link above. Its viewing has been officially
| outlawed. I'm warning you. Do not look.
| actionfromafar wrote:
| It's hard to top the attention they already got though. From
| specialised vendor to house-hold name.
| kurthr wrote:
| Well, if you don't protect your trademark?
|
| It was how most people at M$ were referring to them last week.
|
| edit: OMG, I thought it would be obvious I'm kidding. I guess
| garbage HN comments win garbage HN prizes.
|
| Maybe there will be a supreme court ruling that George Kurtz has
| to wear a clown nose due to the Krusty precedent?
| jjulius wrote:
| There's "protecting your trademark from genuine copyright
| infringement" [nods], and "trying to silence legal parody via
| weak trademark arguments" [shakes head].
| hn_acker wrote:
| > There's "protecting your trademark from genuine copyright
| infringement"
|
| You mean "genuine trademark infringement".
| jjulius wrote:
| Touche, thank you!
| jsheard wrote:
| CrowdStrike/CSC has owned at least clownstrike.com and
| clownstrike.net since 2012, but they weren't on the ball with
| those new TLDs it seems.
| Avicebron wrote:
| I get it, staying on the ball in fast-changing dynamic
| environments can be tough, good thing they don't run an EDR
| scintill76 wrote:
| Their TLD scraper created a file of nothing but zeroes, so
| the registration script crashed and went into a bootloop
| trying to read it.
| xanderlewis wrote:
| It's quite surprising to me that they thought to do that,
| although maybe I'm just naive.
|
| I wonder what other parody names and altered versions they
| own...
| jsheard wrote:
| CSCs whole deal is securing domain names for huge brands,
| they probably have people whose job is to think of derogatory
| domains like that so they can grab them pre-emptively. The
| people behind the .sucks TLD turned that into an incredible
| grift, they charge an exorbitant amount (about $300 a year)
| because they know that every big brand will buy brand.sucks
| no matter what.
| duskwuff wrote:
| [delayed]
| volkl48 wrote:
| I mean, there's now what, 2,000 TLDs and growing? I'm not sure
| it's going to be practical to own every likely parody domain at
| every TLD.
| subpub47 wrote:
| Surely those resources could be better spent on functional Uber
| Eats gift cards.
| tonetegeatinst wrote:
| I heard they canceled the gift cards or they didn't work.
| hatsunearu wrote:
| that's really pathetic. they should own up to the mistake
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| They get paid to look competent for the checkbox, not be
| competent.
| Alupis wrote:
| > they should own up to the mistake
|
| They did! They issued $10 Uber Eats Gift Certificates that were
| revoked minutes later[1]. What, you didn't get to use yours in
| time?
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058261
| new299 wrote:
| I wonder to what extent companies consider the reputational
| damage these kinds of enforcement actions cause. I recently came
| across this when googling for information on a small Biotech
| startup:
|
| https://udrp.adr.eu/decisions/detail?id=65fab3e46fc02956a010...
|
| Will probably be the first thing I remember when I hear their
| name.
| fxtentacle wrote:
| Oh wow, they sued someone who used his last name as a domain
| name because they feel like their trademark should allow them
| to prohibit him from using his family name ... And obviously
| they registered their trademark after he started using his
| name.
| AcerbicZero wrote:
| Must be contract renewal time, and they're rushing to pad the
| numbers ;)
| mmaunder wrote:
| This is why you want to remove as many intermediaries between
| your content and your audience as possible. Ideal scenario is
| your own ASN and a pipe with a commit and your own physical box.
| The only takedown target is your upstream bandwidth provider.
| From there you're adding takedown targets: hosting provider, edge
| cache/firewall provider, commercial CMS, etc. So pick your middle
| ground carefully.
|
| I'd suggest that choosing a commercial CMS makes you an easy
| target. Apparently so does choosing Cloudflare.
| actionfromafar wrote:
| Next up - Cloudstrike.com?
| asdefghyk wrote:
| How would I find these other ClownStrike parody sites ?
| EADDRINUSE wrote:
| Ironically the site takes me back in time to the Attrition era,
| where sites like these were used as defacement to point out
| similar clownishness. Well done.
| mistercow wrote:
| > 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...
|
| I mean that's kind, but the whole point of DMCA safe harbor
| provisions is that they aren't in the middle of this. They send
| along the notice, you file a counter notice, and that's it for
| their involvement, yeah? If CrowdStrike wants to press the issue,
| they go after you, not CloudFlare.
| ronsor wrote:
| Judging by the amount of upvotes this post has received, I
| believe CrowdStrike has made a major PR mistake.
| nerdponx wrote:
| [delayed]
| swayvil wrote:
| They'll change their company name inside a year. Bet on it.
| MarkusQ wrote:
| CrowdStrike definitely has the chops when it comes to taking
| sites down, I'll give them that.
| cj wrote:
| [delayed]
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