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

Parody site ClownStrike defended the "obvious" fair use.

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. Currently on the ClownStrike site, when you click a CSC logo altered with a clown wig, you can find Senk venting about "corporate cyberbullies" taking down "content that they disagree with" and calling Cloudflare's counter notice system "hilariously ineffective."

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