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HackerRank takes down FizzBuzz Q&A on Stack Overflow

• slashtab 3y ago
  Can someone please, explain, give some context?
  • pentaphobe 3y ago
    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 ...
    • slashtab 3y ago
      Interesting!! thanks!
• tsukikage 3y ago
  ...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?
  • whelp_24 3y ago
    I think dcma could benefit from a rewrite by more neutral organizations.
• skilled 3y ago
  March 9th, 2023 Capture https://web.archive.org/web/20230309033559/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16620665/fizzbuzz-program-details-given-in-javascript https://web.archive.org/web/20230309033559/https://stackover...