Facebook lawsuit threatens shutdown
The owners of a rival social networking website, ConnectU, are trying to shut down Facebook on charges that Mark Zuckerber, founder of Facebook, stole their ideas while they were students at Harvard.
The three founders of ConnectU, Zuckerberg’s classmates, claim that they were working together on ConnectU while Zuckerberg repeatedly stalled and eventually created Facebook using their ideas. The charges against Zuckerberg include fraud, copyright infringement, and misappropriation of trade secrets. The lawsuit also asks the court to give control of Facebook (and its assets) to ConnectU’s founders.
Facebook did hit the web 3 months before ConnectU. The lawsuit claims that by beating ConnectU to the market, Facebook gained a “huge advantage”.
Haha… Sorry I can’t help but laugh on this one.
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