Facebook is getting sued and could be shut down

Facebook founders sued for "stolen" site, again
Published: 2007-07-16


Three former Harvard classmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will face him in Massachusetts district court next week, claiming for a second time that the social networking site's original development team stole the idea and source code for Facebook after Zuckerberg worked for them in 2003.
The dispute began when Zuckerberg launched TheFacebook.com in February 2004, a month after promising to help finish the Web site for the Harvard Connection, now ConnectU, according to a complaint filed in April 2007 by the three plaintiffs in the case -- classmates Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra. As early as November 2003, the three ConnectU founders had discussed the possibility of working on the Harvard Connection Web site with Zuckerberg, the court filing stated.
This is the second time around for the lawsuit. A previous court action was dismissed due to a technicality on March 28, and ConnectU's founders immediately filed a refurbished complaint, according to Conde Nast's Portfolio.com. With Facebook currently valued at as much as $2 billion, the stakes of the lawsuit have risen dramatically in the past three years.
Misappropriation of source code and other trade secrets, whether by insiders or hackers, has become increasingly common. In 2003, playable portions of the game Half-Life 2 circulated around the Internet after a online thief breached the security around the developer's servers. In 2004, a 27-year-old Connecticut man was sentenced to two years in prison for trying to sell the source code to Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system, even though he was not charged with originally stealing the code.
The three founders of ConnectU have brought ten claims against Facebook, including copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, and a number of violations of common law. The three former classmates are requesting that the court grant an injunction prohibiting Facebook's operations, requiring that the company destroy all materials derived from the allegedly infringed-upon code, and holding the firm and its officers liable for the civil claims.



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Discuss... hopefully this won't happen if it does it might be redirected to connectu..

 

Lol i dont use facebook, doesnt bother me at all.

 

Same, I don't usually use these sort of sites where you blog and chat. But Facebook is a huge community with a lot of members...hmmm. That's pretty big if it got shut down.

 

Finally!!!! I hope it gets shut down. Goooo Myspace!!!

 

I don't really like any social networking sites so I don't really care lol.

 

Word. lol.....only one i use is Bebo and it's gay as shit

 

Maybe it wont get shut down I like face book but only people who use it is in middle or high school

 

I'm kinda glad to be honest. I am fucking sick of my inbox being spammed with "this noob has invited you to facebook."

 

Hell yeah.

 

Lets just hope myspace gets owned next.

 

Meh. I don't go for either of them. But personally I think Facebook is better than Myspace, Myspace is hell whenever I go on.

 

Myspace is full of ads and stuff, and when people put music on their pages it makes things much worse.

 

myspace ftw

 

woot, Facebook ftl, Myspace ftw lulz

 

RIP Facebook?

 

Facebook Is way to rich to lose this lawsuit. Moreover There were sold to same major company, Moreover i like facebook over myspace due to saftey. Meaning Like the network system is amazing, I left my old high school to join another, and i have to have other friend comfirmation to go there, Plus i had to tell facebook all the school information.

 

I dont use myspace anyways

 

Facebook won't get shut down, it's to big.

 

They should just give up, no website like that will ever be more popular than myspace...

 

lulz.

myspace > facebook