Facebook Sues German Company, Claims Ripoff

azuredrake writes "Facebook, the largest social networking site in the US, has sued German social networking site studiVZ on the grounds that studiVZ has copied the look and feel of Facebook in order to piggyback off their success. According to the article, 'The German company sued by Facebook for running a "knockoff" of the social networking Web site said on Sunday it asked a German court to declare that Facebook's claims are without merit.' However, a simple glance at the two sites' homepages seems to tell a different story — studiVZ copies many things from Facebook, from their button layout down to the font they're using."

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Didn't you know?

[Anonymous Coward]

Didn't you know that many people in Germany refer to studiVZ as StudiVotze, which can literally be translated as StudentCunt.

Re:What timing!

[xtracto]

Wow,

Now that is a story. I had no idea about the origins of FaceBook... according to that story the founder of Facebook is a total asshole.