The latest is Aaron Greenspan, who says he came up with a Harvard networking website before Facebook and before ConnectU, whose creators are currently suing Zuckerberg for ripping the idea.
But a couple of start-ups have ripped off the idea using their own code which is open source.
Yes, we ripped off the idea from ESPN Classic, the cable outlet that rebroadcasts old sporting events: we are replaying New Jersey Supreme Court cases from the past, so that you can catch up on everything you missed before Webcasting began.
The sealing of the Magna Carta – "the Great Charter of the Liberties" – 800 years ago today, effectively ripped up the idea that monarchs have an invincible and divine right to rule, and established the contemporary powers of parliament and the laws that continue to protect and liberate us today.
As Michael McKean explained in an interview with the Guardian: "We were accused by someone from Foghat of planting a bug in their bus because they swore that we had ripped off the idea of the girlfriend taking over and using astrology to plan the tour".
Instead of investing, Henriksen ripped off the idea and started his own company in Houston.
On Twitter, Trump ripped the brothers for "bad ideas" and bragged: "I made them richer".
It didn't even pretend it was anything but a copy: Waitrose has admitting ripping off the idea and said it exceeded its own expectations.
What Homeland did wonderfully over the course of this series was rip up the idea of heroes and villains, – and in this last episode the distinction broke down completely.
Lawmakers have endorsed U.S. combat in Vietnam, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, ripping apart the idea that Congress has not been complicit all along in our military interventions.
