I'm actually surprised they (ConnectU) won this case (or Zuck buckled), from the sounds of things a new social network idea was "in the air" at the time and several teams were close to launching something similar.<p>Who's to say ConnectU had an exclusive "right" to this idea? They simply hired a freelance coder aka consultant to hack away and <i>surprise</i> he though it was a good idea and made his own (apparently more popular) version.