I'm not sure it does look that way. As Sorkin writes "MARK: The 'Winklevii' aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, things didn't go exactly the way they were supposed to for them."
They were incredibly lucky to get the settlement they did and for them to consider risking that, or at minimum legal fees, seems very foolish.
Also Sorkin:
MARK: Did I use any of your code?
DIVYA: You stole our whole goddam idea!
[…]
MARK: Match-dot-com for Harvard guys?
[…]
MARK: You know you really don’t need a forensic team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook you’d have invented Facebook.
Because art both affects our beliefs and provides a nice form for expressing them.
Today's trivial "Follow the money" does not appear in the book "All the President's Men" and the relevant reporters never said or wrote it. It comes from the movie, written by William Goldman. And now "every" story about investigative journalism cites it.
They were incredibly lucky to get the settlement they did and for them to consider risking that, or at minimum legal fees, seems very foolish.
Also Sorkin:
MARK: Did I use any of your code? DIVYA: You stole our whole goddam idea! […] MARK: Match-dot-com for Harvard guys? […] MARK: You know you really don’t need a forensic team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook you’d have invented Facebook.