stravanasuAug 6, 2024

Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike’s bogus DMCA takedown

https://lemmy.ca/post/26459507

Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike’s bogus DMCA takedown - Lemmy.ca

> 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…

Show threadroofuskitAug 6, 2024
Using the DMCA as a censorship tool needs to be a criminal offense subject to jail time.
Show thread4amAug 6, 2024
Why that’s literally what it was designed to do
Show threadrezifon
DMCA was designed to prevent intellectual property infringement, not as a censorship tool.
Aug 7, 2024 at 1:59amWeb
Show threadRansackAug 7, 2024

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.

Show threadludAug 7, 2024
No they literally said that DMCA was designed for censorship…
Show threadTeoTwawkiAug 7, 2024
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.