Comments on: Facebook Loses Lawsuit Against German Clone StudiVZ, Gets Criticized For Sloppy Preparation

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:04:16 +0000

Wow. I can’t believe some comments.Do you guys realize that the fight against “Nazi-Germany”is over?Do you guys realize that there wouldn’t be the NASA and moon trips without german engineering by copying Nazi-Engineers.
Facebook couldn’t proof their case.In every democratic country it leads to not guilty.In Europe and the USA.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:00:50 +0000

I’ve heard in another article that the guy that made facebook worked with the developers of that facebook lookalike in university and there was a row and some of his source code and ideas were stolen :S. Sucks for facebook really, it definately is a knock off ><

By: Linking In » Facebook vs. StudiVZ

Linking In » Facebook vs. StudiVZ — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:04:37 +0000

[...] concerning Internet cases is inconsistent and weird at best, maybe a reason for this verdict. The court seems to have argued that “StudiVZ isn’t trying to trick users into thinking they are actually on Facebook. [...]

By: This week StudiVZ won a battle against Facebook - will they lose the war?

This week StudiVZ won a battle against Facebook - will they lose the war? — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:39:02 +0000

[...] out that the Court didn’t have a problem with that. As TechCrunch’s own Serkan Toto wrote this week: The court argues that it can’t identify any unfair practices, mainly due to the fact that StudiVZ [...]

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renaissance chambara alias Ged Carroll - Links of the day — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:02:21 +0000

[...] Facebook Loses Lawsuit Against German Clone StudiVZ, Gets Criticized For Sloppy Preparation [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:44:46 +0000

Vkontakte.ru is a 1:1 copy of facebook, they didn’t even change the coloures. It’s russias most famous website with over 36 mio registered members. coriously fb doesn’t sue them…

xiaonei.com is also a 1:1 copy of facebook, they do evenhave more than 40 mio registered members. they are also not sued by facebook…

but studivz.de with a bit more than 5 mio members gets sued…

why? – fb might have no chance to become market leader in china and russia, but they have a chance to become germanys leading social network… thats why they sue them, not because of copying the website…

By: Ffffr

Ffffr — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:07:23 +0000

LOL.
Facebook the hypocrite. Suckberg and his sister are a joke. Anyone putting their trust in him is foolish.

By: Daniel Franz

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:42:04 +0000

Judges have no clou how web applications are built or even what source code theft is. And I dont think facebook can prove that studiVZ stole their code (they obviously did!). But I wouldnt criticize their lawyers too harsh for losing. The whole sue wasnt necessarily meant to go through. It was effective PR/marketing communication. Germans now know facebook and I give studiVZ maybe 2 more years. After all they are a copy – of facebook 3 years ago. They suck.

By: Free email marketing

Free email marketing — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:07:26 +0000

The greatest benefit of Facebook is that it has many groups on the site that you can join. So if you are interested in Chicago Cubs you can research Chicago Cubs in the groups section and you will be able to find friends on there that like the Cubs. This is just one example, I know that you can join groups of your favorite football team, television show, or whatever you want for the most part! If you can’t find a group for your interest, you can simply create one!

James

By: FinallySomething Interesting

FinallySomething Interesting — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:30:48 +0000

Truth is: the Samwer brothers promised Facebook to take care of the StudiVZ problem IF they were allowed to invest in Fb. Well that hasn’t happened…

Germany is a nation of copiers and they are proud of it. No innovation. Just copy. Nothing wrong with it since they admit it outright.

By: blatant

blatant — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:41:15 +0000

Yea.. Germans are not as bad stealing society as Chinese.

By: tech.monk

tech.monk — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:38:51 +0000

connectU is a parent class, Facebook and StudiVZ are instances of it … no wonder there will be some similarities.

By: blatant

blatant — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:35:24 +0000

Design is not code you fools. It is blatant copy of “old facebook”. If they launch english version i would love switching to studi….what?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:49:31 +0000

After the verdict, Randi stated she would have the judge’s FB pages taken down.

By: led screen

led screen — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:44:28 +0000

oh ..lost …bad for facebook .

By: Daniel G.

Daniel G. — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:34:07 +0000

I wonder if there is ever going to be a discussion about something German-related without parallels instantly beeing drawn to the holocaust, the nazi regime or anything like that.

This is a serious question: Is this the only thing you learn about Germany? Or is it just mor fun milking the stereotypes? (That, I could actually understand…)

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:30:11 +0000

nothing more to say… http://www.info...RSSfeed_TechWeb

By: grza

grza — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:27:25 +0000

This is how the web rolls. Facebook should know that. Pathetic attempt so somhow damage studivz.
And in the end they don’t even need to do this. Instead they should concentrate of coming up with an awesome Facebook service that has better features and works better than studivz. (What they did pretty successful the last couple of months if you ask me)

By: BombayNinja

BombayNinja — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:18:16 +0000

And since it is server side code, facebook wouldn’t know about it unless they illegally accessed StudiVZ servers.

By: Avatar X

Avatar X — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:11:33 +0000

The only way they can win in Germany and then Europe is buying StudyVZ….the same goes China and the Facebook version there.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:11:26 +0000

Funny. I guess what one learns depends on where one goes to university. I learned (in university and real life) you have to be careful of industial espionage everywhere. No country business or industry is innocent, or safe. There are thieves everywhere – if you want to call them thieves. Depending on how you want to see things, maybe Ford, GM and the other US automakers should sue Japanese automakers for using assembly lines! But seriously, I learned in College that you had to be most careful when dealing with China, Russia, Japan, and Europe. I guess it depends on which Big Brother you grow up with.

By: humorless

humorless — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:00:06 +0000

brilliant, you should be a lawyer. The article says just the opposite: “The lawsuit against StudiVZ in the US is still on. “

By: steve

steve — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:58:52 +0000

According to this article, the fight is still on here in the USA.

By: humor

humor — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:41:19 +0000

As you can read Facebook also lost in USA not only in Europe…

By: geekevaluation

geekevaluation — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:10:03 +0000

facebook gets taste of own medicine