Parody site ClownStrike defended the "obvious" fair use.

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…

  • rezifon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    534·
    3 months ago

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

    • Ransack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2711·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
        212·
        3 months ago

        No they literally said that DMCA was designed for censorship…

        • TeoTwawki@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          3 months 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.