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HackerRank takes down FizzBuzz Q&A on Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com)
6 points by wubin 1094 days ago
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...by DMCA request.

However, Spolsky's 2007 FizzBuzz post predates the existence of Hackerrank (2012) by five years.

Since they seem to enjoy that sort of thing, can a suit be brought against Hackerrank for copyright infringement?

I think dcma could benefit from a rewrite by more neutral organizations.
Can someone please, explain, give some context?
Hackerrank runs a business which helps companies test candidates by doing code challenges.

Presumedly they don't invent every test from scratch - more likely they plagiarise existing tests and profit from them - which isn't really a problem until they start treating it as their own IP

Seems like probably someone at hackerrank added a classic code challenge to their library (FizzBuzz)

And presumedly this then resulted in their legal team/bots going out and initiating DMCA takedowns

Good Ol' late stage capitalism ...

Interesting!! thanks!