Court Rejects Winklevoss Twins' Facebook Appeal

angry tapir writes "A US federal appeals court has denied a request by the Winklevoss twins to release them from their settlement with Facebook over their allegations that Mark Zuckerberg improperly appropriated their idea for the social networking site. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, along with another Harvard classmate, agreed to the settlement in 2008 but the twins later asked a district court to let them back out, saying they were misled by Facebook about the value of the company's shares they received as part of the deal. On Monday, a three-judge appeals court panel sided with the lower court, noting that the Winklevoss twins have actually fared quite well since the settlement was hammered out because the value of Facebook, pegged recently at around $50 billion, means that their shares have more than tripled in value."

Knowledgeable

[Warbane]

ITT: Commenters who have seen The Social Network and, accordingly, are now experts on the matter.

Re:Not rich enough yet?

[Nikker]

So this is the "I watched the Zuckerberg movie and lets comment on it as it really happened" thread?

Re:Not rich enough yet?

[Anonymous Coward]

Aha Mark, nice try posting as AC, but we KNOW your writing style. You may not think that we are talented, but we actually are. You have been figured out by this dynamic duo. Yessir, yessiree. As Darth Vader once said, all too easy!
 
--The Winklevoss Twins
 
P.S.: You owe us a larger undisclosed amount of shares.

Look at his UID

[Anonymous Coward]

GP has been here for a very long time. Hell, he probably is actually a grand parent. He has years, decades even, more experience about not RTFAing than the rest of us.