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Facebook.com’s rival social networking site, ConnectU LLC, has subpoenaed The Harvard Crimson for all materials related to the newspaper’s reporting on the two companies as part of an ongoing lawsuit in the U.S. District Court. The move, if upheld by a judge, would require the newspaper to release all correspondences, e-mails, and notes of interviews its reporters had with either party by Dec. 1. The creators of ConnectU LLC allege in their lawsuit that facebook.com creator, Mark E. Zuckerberg, stole the concept for his popular networking site from an earlier venture, Harvard...
...ConnectU files lawsuit against TheFacebook...
...that of their company. Zuckerberg and Moskovitz have begun another semester away from school, but they don’t want to stay away forever. Meanwhile, Saverin is counting the months until graduation. And money always remains an issue: the lawsuit filed by three Harvard graduates for the competing ConnectU site costs TheFacebook $20,000 a month, even though the case has yet to reach discovery phase...
First came thefacebook.com. Then came ConnectU. Now Harvard students have a third option for browsing the pictures and contact information of other undergraduates—the official Harvard College Facebook...
...plaintiffs allege that it was their idea all along. Shame on Zuckerberg for taking their grand plans and making them happen first. Setting aside the legal questions of whether Zuckerberg fulfilled his vague quasi-contractual duties, what the plaintiffs are forgetting by starting this tiff is that neither ConnectU nor thefacebook are new ideas. Poking aside, both are Friendster knockoffs made unique by their exclusivity and a few, college-centric features. (And Friendster itself was an imitation of other sites before it.) Though thefacebook and ConnectU boast improvements like multiple profiles and the ability to display class schedules to facilitate...