Could FaceBook Be Shut Down?

Boston (dBTechno) - The owner of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is being accused of stealing the idea for his $1 billion website.

US District Judge Douglas Woodlock told Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra they must produce evidence that they hired Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to work on Harvard Connection.

Three former classmates have come out and accused him of stealing the idea, software, and business plan for Facebook.

The three former Harvard students said that Zuckerberg stole the idea while working as a programmer in their own social-networking site ConnectU.

“Dorm room chitchat does not make a contract, so I want to see it,” Judge Woodlock said in court as the case began yesterday.

The legal suit was originally filed in September 2004, but was dismissed on a technicality and the trio had to refile.

Zuckerberg filed a separate lawsuit in a Californian court in 2005 alleging that ConnectU hired hackers to steal thousands of email addresses from Facebook.