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Hi Vivek, why was the DMCA filed in the first place?

Reading elsewhere in the thread it looks like they have been relying on firms in Pakistan and elsewhere to scour the internet for strings that appear in Hacker Rank and submit DMCA takedowns when they find these strings elsewhere. This becomes awkward when it is in fact Hacker Rank that copied the strings from the source they are DMCAing.

They should probably never send a DMCA again. It's political suicide in this industry anyway.

We really need a strikes policy for DMCA submitters built into the legislation. Like submit three dubious claims, and you lose your copyright. I've been saying it for literally 15 years.

>Reading elsewhere in the thread it looks like they have been relying on firms in Pakistan and elsewhere to scour the internet for strings that appear in Hacker Rank and submit DMCA takedowns when they find these strings elsewhere.

Who ever thought this was a good idea? Those firms and the "monkeys" they hire have an incentive to send takedowns everywhere to make it look like they are "doing something".

But since there are no consequences for sending them to the wrong places, I guess they don't care much.

Except hitting HN frontpage

That is how business is run in the US, but not exclusively. They don't want to have dirty hands and hired some company with specific profile to do this job for them. They took a time to find company like this. This is not an unexpected accident. And when things become hot, they blow some money to shut other mouths.

Shady practice for the bad people who got caught several times. Taking responsibility for them will be ceasing whole business. Just stop doing bad things.

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