Winklevoss Twins Drop Facebook Lawsuit: About Time?

If I was up against Mark Zuckerburg, I would quit too.

I think that the Vinklevoss Twins would have better luck if they were to sue their Parents for saddling them with a name like Vinklevoss.

Those guys clearly didn't have half the brains zuckerberg did.

So stealing intellectual property makes you smart?

Yay!

They shouldnt have even recieved what they got to begin with, hope they go crawl in a hole.

Suit'ers are Con'men with Dressing.

It's always about settlement.

did they have proof that it was their idea? and how in the heck do you agree to take the settlement and then turn around and say that it isn't fair? these guys should get kicked in the head

Do they understand the concept of "snooze, lose"?

They are just mad that the idea they had, Mark actually acted on it and its worth so much, and like the deal they got isn't enough? its sad tho it ruined their friendships though.

They got screwed over, why should they just bendover and take it

There idea got stolen and they got 65 million and facebook is worth over a billion

then why argee to a settlement and sign paperwork stating that they agree to take the settlement? These guys should be politicians...greedy and 2-faced liars

Kind of like your mate Mark

he isn't my mate, but he did prove that these other 2 are even greedier bastards than himself

They had plenty of money to begin with, you really think two guys with olympic aspirations care about money?

FINALLY.

it was just annoying

OK, I don't follow this thing and don't normally dis people on looks but all I can say is; Millionaire Munsters!!

Haha. They really do look like the epitome of spoiled, slightly inbred rich kids.

They have realized that Face Book has lost some of its shine to Tweet and that they might lose all

lol who is hotter the twins or mark?

What a couple of spoiled Creeps. They didn't do anything but row around in their silly boats while Zuckerberg did all the work! They should not have received this much. But now they should go away and dream up their own real idea about a new social network , if they are such geniuses.

Whoa now, I think they're a couple of douches as well, but don't go making cracks at rowing! :(

Lol. Ok no rowing is a very worthy sport! In the movie they were portrayed as putting that above all else. That is all I meant.

Oh, but rowing DOES come above everything else ;D

I kid, I kid (kind of).

I understand a passion, that's great.

Man, they have some neat hair looks.

Now they need to take the money and just go away.

Not so fast! That is only one part of the story!

"A day after Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss indicated they wouldn't take their fight with Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg to the Supreme Court, they pushed ahead with another suit.

In a status report filed on Thursday in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the twins and their business partner Divya Narendra told the court that they would push for discovery in a claim that Facebook "intentionally or inadvertently suppressed evidence" during 2008 settlement proceedings over whether Mr. Zuckerberg stole their idea for a Harvard student social network."

Zuckerberg is nothing but a car thief!

They got what they wanted out of it.

They sort of had the idea. Facebook didn't make it big until they made it open and available to EVERYONE. Which if it was up to the Winklevoss' they would have made it more of a elite society thing. Wouldn't have been worth half what it is now.

Having an idea and doing something with it are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. They got paid for their IDEA. Zuck gets the major bank for the BUSINESS WORK.

lol like you said an IDEA. No way in hell would I have paid them.

The court ordered it because the evidence of their participation and work in the building of it and creation through idea was documented within their project for school. We did something similar in my senior design project for my engineering degree. We created a video targeting and tracking system that I wanted to market to paintball places. If I had gone public and become a billionaire off of the idea they would have the right to the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY nature of the project. After all I used their effort, their work, and their ideas for the creation of an item that was sold and made money. At the time I had no agreement with them that I would own exclusive rights so the 'business' would owe them for their 'fair portion'.

However, what they wanted was to be part owners of a business that they did NOT take part in creating. They are only due reciprocation for their IDEAS & EFFORT.

JMHO

If they wanted to get rich, they should have gotten off their high horse and done the work themselves. Just coming up with an idea, without the brains to back it, just doesn't cut it. They shouldn't have gotten as much as they already did.

I don't know but the one to the left is kinda cute....

Hey he's rich too.

Yeah... But I'd have to meet him first lol.

That's the most they were going to be able to get out of the case really.