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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."
Ignoring the rest of your comments which really lack any kind of logic whatsoever, I'm going to stick to your "idiot or troll".
The goal of both sites is (Or was, in Facebooks case) to network college type students. "Facebook" is a pretty narrow slang term that I've never really heard anyone use in a "paper" context before now, but it might be the case. However "Students directory" is much more straight foward. So according to you, if I wanted to make another social networking site aimed at college students I'd have to call it something random, otherwise I'd be a plagiarist?
Actually I can't stop myself from pointing out the huge flaws in your remarks. Please don't tell you went right-click -> View page source and then decided "Hmm these are kinda the same"?
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So, more than anything it means a USA company trying to outdo competition in other countries using typical USA strategies (i.e., don't-worry sue-happy!).
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Interestingly, DRI's page on wikipedia makes no mention of this lawsuit but the page on Apple's litigation does .
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