"Copy Catting" Cost Facebook $65 million
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Dayum!
According reports filed Tuesday, Facebook doled out $65 million to settle a lawsuit with the social networking site ConnectU, who claimed that the super popular site 'stole' their idea.
The details of the settlement were supposed to be confidential, but a law firm that helped ConnectU sue Facebook back in 2004 disclosed the sum in a newsletter that 'accidently' went public!
The $65 million in cash and stock options go to ConnectU founders, twin bros Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.
Is one of them gay, cute, single?!
Where Is Chris Brown's Mugshot?
Sports Illustrated Gets Experimental
Yawn
myspace owns!
:)
God Mario-this isn't even interesting-what's with you today?Oh I forgot you got a big announcement coming up-wooHoo!
Yay I hate facebook anyway!
Hey Perez did you pose naked for something? Is that the secret? Or you donated your spermy sperm to some friends who want a baby.
Re: Sugar Titz – Your #1 -good job!
THE ANSWER TO PEREZ'S THING HE'S BEEN HINTING AT HAS SOMETHING TO DO W/BRITNEY SPEARS.
CLUE #1: ALL EYES ON ME (from her song circus-"all eyes on me in the center of the ring, just like a circus")
CLUE #2: CENTER…ATTENTION (the album is called circus-center ring, etc…)
CLUE #3: AGAIN…I DID IT (in reference to the song "Oops I did it Again"
MY GUESS IS THAT HE WILL BE IN A VIDEO OR AT HER CONCERT IN SOME WAY
I love that you claim to hate gold diggers so bad, and yet we all know it's what you aspire to…
(Or really you hate them when they're gold digging (in your opinion) someone you like… madonna, paul M…. realistically, I think Guy's a hero for putting up w/ that lady as long as he did.)
the Winklevoss twins and straight, Olympic rowers….they are cute however!
WOW that's a lot of money!! damn! lol
I believed from CLUE ONE that the secret is Britney Spears related! Maybe you are opening up for her concert tour..some type of stand-up routine?
testing my avatar lol
I think it ate my comment lol
Re: someonesmarter – yeah thats what i originally thought, it had something to do with britney, but I dont wanna believe that she'll ever pull a katy perry and befriend this fat pig.
15!
Re: RedWingsFan – Thanks!
PEREZ' SURPRISE HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH BRITNEY SPEARS
he keeps posting her lyrics like the last one took a sip from my devils cup.thats from toxic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gross!!! No one would want to date you Perez, you disgusting shitbag.
you crack me up
facebook sucks!
about time someone tried to milk facebook
facebook sucks!…
what the hell is connectU?
Change it back to the way it was to make it good again. NO ONE likes new facebook. What were they THINKing..?!
The twins are straight, cute and single. Can be found on any given night at Manhattan's 1Oak.
Happy hunting.
O c'mon there are 1000 sites like Facebook and Myspace
Re: JustAViewerForcedToMakeAName – hahaha yeah I thought the same! GO FACEBOOK!
Mr. & Mr. PeePee Tinkletoss
Schmoopie
ConnectU is a stupid name anyways.
Wonder what that means for Facebook. Will we now have to pay to use it in order for them to get their money back?
google them, and you´ll see that IF the WERE gay, they could do WAY better than dating you…
Good for them. I've read this story and the creator of Facebook, without a doubt, ripped them off.
Oh please. There is no such thing as originality anymore. ConnectU was probably hoping that the publicity would give them more exposure. I'd never even heard of them. We might as well start suing each other because OMG, you copied my eye colour.