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…

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • TeoTwawki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        They have an edited version of the Crowdstrike logo on the page, which is what I was thinking of. It’s a stretch though.