Lawsuit Filed Against "Facebook"

Hi all,if u want to find out real files of lawsuit against facebook,this is the one. Details about the lawsuit. Social networking website Facebook faces legal action today from the founders of a rival site over claims that their ideas were stolen, in a case that could lead to a change of ownership at the fast growing $10bn (£4.9bn) internet business.At the time, Zuckerberg was a 20-year-old computer science and psychology major well known on campus for launching a website called Facemash that allowed users to rate who was "hotter." The site eventually landed Zuckerberg on probation for unauthorized use of Harvard photos.Narendra and the Winklevoss twins asked Zuckerberg to help them launch ConnectU.In a 2004 interview with the Globe, Zuckerberg said he did about six hours of work on the site but had no business relationship with ConnectU.The founders of the ConnectU site allege that Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, stole their site's software code while he was working for them as a Harvard student.They have accused Mr Zuckerberg of fraud, copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets, and have demanded to be given ownership of Facebook.ConnectU now has 70,000 users, while Facebook has become a worldwide success with 52 million users, 6 million of whom are based in the UK.One of the nine complaints in the lawsuit alleges that TheFacebook.com uses the very same sourcecode as ConnectU.com. Sourcecode is the internal programming of a site that makes it run properly.When asked how he could tell the programming codes for the two sites were identical, Winklevoss would only say, "Mark had total access to the programming guts of our website, the sourcecode."Before turning to the courts, ConnectU founders brought their complaint to Harvard's Administrative Board, a panel similar to the Honor Committee at Princeton. The board ruled that the matter was out of their jurisdiction.