Re:HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
by jaysonqpt on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @11:03PM
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HackeRank sends pretty nasty DMCA requests.
I recently received one from a Pakistani company hired by HackerRank. The material in question was a simple blog entry on a well known programming problem and its solution. The problem is DMCA doesn't provide any way to fight these fake requests and Google simply removes the content until you send a counter notification and wait for over 2 weeks.
DMCA should have a provision that if a company is misusing DMCA at large-scale, their requests should go through additional validation.
I recently received one from a Pakistani company hired by HackerRank. The material in question was a simple blog entry on a well known programming problem and its solution. The problem is DMCA doesn't provide any way to fight these fake requests and Google simply removes the content until you send a counter notification and wait for over 2 weeks.
DMCA should have a provision that if a company is misusing DMCA at large-scale, their requests should go through additional validation.