Facebook has launched a lawsuit against German social network, StudiVZ.  Facebook accused StudiVZ for copying the look, feel, and features exactly as facebook.  StudiVZ has about 10 million users and claim to be most popular social network in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Ehssan Dariani, the site’s founder has agreed that StudiVZ is a Facebook replica.  “It was also clear from the get-go that we would strongly distinguish ourselves by other things, that we wanted to be original,” stated Dariani. Because the German version was successful, Dariani created an Italian version.

StudiVZ was bought out by a German media company called Georg von Holtzbrinck for a price that was close to €100 million a few months ago.

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