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Thefacebook.com faces suit

Lawsuit against Harvard undergrads asks court to shut down Web site

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, September 15, 2004

A lawsuit filed earlier this month against a group of Harvard undergraduates may put an end to one major time-wasting technique for students at Yale and across the country.

The suit alleges that Thefacebook.com founder Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard sophomore, breached his contract with the founders of rival Web site ConnectU.com and made use of their source code to launch his own site after committing to work for them.

The suit asks the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to close Thefacebook.com and award its profits to the plaintiffs as...

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