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I’m curious - why even bother? What will you do if someone torrents the solutions? Focus on figuring out another solution.

Leetcode for instance puts the solutions out there.

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It's not an either or. We need to do the takedown AND figure out a way where we can do things like randomizing questions but preserving the integrity of it to ensure a fair evaluation, etc.

Why do the takedown though? You’ll never get rid of solutions being online.

There are solutions to most questions on leetcode on GitHub as we speak.

I don’t get it. If your assessment is designed that knowing the solution ruins it then your assessing process is broken.

I’ve literally showed candidates the solution to leetcode questions and they still don’t get it. Trying to remove solutions seems like a poor use of effort imho.

> figure out a way where we can do things like randomizing questions but preserving the integrity of it to ensure a fair evaluation, etc

How does any of these have anything to do with copyright infringement in the context of DMCA takedown? Do you even own the copyright to the alleged leaked solution?

Is your company's legal position seriously that you hold copyright on independently written solutions to your prompts? If so, I'd love to see you sued for this. This issue goes way beyond just one misfire.

Exactly. When you file a DMCA takedown notice you are asserting under penalty of perjury that you own the copyright. While few have suffered consequences for false notices, pissing enough people off might change that.

This is a horrible abuse of the DMCA. HackerRank does not own the copyright to independent solutions.

No, no you dont need to do take downs, ever.

literaly everything your assessing is programming 101. its not something that you can or should be asserting any copywrite on.

infact I would challange you to register the copywrites on your questions/answers and see exactly how far you get with that process before you even consider sending a single DMCA notice.

no, you need to find a better business idea

> we need to do the takedown

You’ve made a serious mistake somewhere in your reasoning. What you believe is the property of your relatively insignificant enterprise, the whole rest of the world knows damn well is not your property.

Besides, this is small potatoes. Why don’t you copyright Wikipedia, then DMCA WikiMedia, then put your copy behind a paywall.

For content you copied to begin with????

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