CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike • Hacker News Board

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by nurettin » Sun, Aug 04, 2024, 6:16 AM UTC

account42 wrote: post #210

cj wrote: post #33

FWIW: CSC is a company that other companies hire to act on its behalf. It's very likely that the company you work for uses CSC as it's registered agent in the State of Delaware for administrative purposes (CSC doesn't really do anything other than exist on paper and file annual forms to satisfy legal and compliance requirements necessary for companies to exist in the US). I wasn't aware they file DMCA requests on beh…

Lol they actually registered clownstrike. com and have it redirect to crowdstrike.com. https://who.is/whois/clownstrike.com

Underrated. It almost looks like self-flagellation.

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by bugmenow » Mon, Aug 05, 2024, 11:17 PM UTC

account42 wrote: post #212

wlesieutre wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft

Also in France https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milka_contre_Kraft_Foods

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by Terretta » Tue, Aug 06, 2024, 6:28 PM UTC

Terretta wrote: post #127

rsingel wrote: post #106

Cloudflare's lawyers should have told Crowd strike to kick rocks. The DMCA's copyright provisions apply only to copyrighted content not trademarks. Cloudflare could have told these clowns to go kick rocks without incurring any liability and could have threatened them with filing fake DMCA claims.

> Cloudflare's lawyers should have told Crowd strike to kick rocks. Not all ISPs use provisions in the DMCA that let them put the burden back on the claimant. A few do. In general, if ISPs or CDNs have a free plan, they can't, as bad actors leverage these free plans in bulk. But ISPs or CDNs that charge actual money to known customers will generally not take down until all legal avenues to keep their client online ar…

McSherry told Ars that major service providers like Cloudflare can become "chokepoints," where lawful speech gets taken down because, regardless of intent, "they can't be precise in what they do" once their platform gets too big and reports get too numerous. She agreed with Senk that a few large companies controlling vast amounts of content online can be problematic.

"It is true that there are a relatively small number of companies that have outsized influence over what is available online," McSherry said. "And that can be really difficult or create a real problem because sometimes they don't have any choice but to sort of overcensor."

"In this case, "there was just big companies using big processes and not being careful," McSherry said. "And that is not acceptable."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/parody-site-clow...