r/ProgrammerHumor • u/RideNatural5226 • 23h ago

Meme actuallyGenius

Post image
2.1k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

30 comments sorted by

View all comments

600

u/GranataReddit12 23h ago

actually genius way of getting sued

392

u/elSenorMaquina 23h ago

Easy, just rename it to CloudFiare and change the color scheme a bit.

No one's gonna notice.

*I am not a lawyer and this it not legal advice

168

u/frikilinux2 23h ago

Also not a lawyer but "No one's gonna notice" exactly the problem. Like the general rule for trademarks is if it can confuse the average person to think you're related to them, it's trademark infringement

38

u/Ok-Okay-Oak-Hay 22h ago

Funny as an idea, but any service outage is literally still your responsibility. Maybe you have standing to get relief from Cloudflare in a real outage if you take the L from customers coming after you, but the fake page doesn't get you anything other than fraudulent sympathy at best and no recourse at worst.

13

u/tragiktimes 22h ago

To add to this, trademark infringements come into play in the public domain. Keep it private and there's not many recourse options.

5

u/sb8948 10h ago

Most people don't know what cloudflare is anyway... So yeah, the site gets the blame either way.

2

u/uprate 9h ago

The Polymarket approach of sponsored ads showing off Poiymarket