HackerRank takes down FizzBuzz Q&A on Stack Overflow

HackerRank takes down FizzBuzz Q&A on Stack Overflow(stackoverflow.com)

6 points by wubin 3 years ago | 6 comments

skilled 3 years ago |

March 9th, 2023 Capture

https://web.archive.org/web/20230309033559/https://stackover...

tsukikage 3 years 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 3 years ago | |

I think dcma could benefit from a rewrite by more neutral organizations.

slashtab 3 years ago |

Can someone please, explain, give some context?

pentaphobe 3 years 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 3 years ago | | |

Interesting!! thanks!