....let them carry on, sue the bollocks off Facebook and hopefully close the shithole down.

..had they patented the idea or something? Unless he actually nicked their code, what exactly is their argument?

I thought of a really great idea for a small product about a month ago. After some hunting on the net, I found that another person has made the same thing. I'm not too bothered though - I'll simply make a better one. This has happened to me several times in my life with various things. Can I sue them for getting there before me?

Someone having the same idea as you is not illegal, even if you inspired them.

They agreed to settle (meaning both sides concede that there might be some cause of action but neither side are sure so they cut their losses), then change their mind because they think they can win?

Is this not having your cake and eating it too?

Go Boston Legal

Facebook's countersuit is pretty funny - because in order to populate the site enough so that it was vaguely useful to the users at Harvard (this is back in 2004 when the site was only open to Harvard undergrads), Zuckerberg took photos from the Harvard student directory without students' permission (and got hauled up in front of the University administrative board for it). They may have stolen some of his data, but he did exactly the same thing to a different directory...

who by being so whiny and making themselves look worse and worse... even worse than their pal who set up facebook. lol