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I listened in live to a conference call with Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, two of the plaintiffs in ConnectU's lawsuit against Facebook. "You may wonder why ConnectU is holding its first press conference now," says Tyler Winklevoss in a set of prepared remarks. "This dispute with Thefacebook is over three years old." Winklevoss cites his and brother Cameron's schedules as "Olympic hopefuls" training for the 2008 Beijing games. He says that ConnectU is not trying to shut down Facebook. (Oddly, he keeps calling it "Thefacebook," even though Mark Zuckerberg's company hasn't used that name in almost two years.) Cameron Winklevoss then joins in, largely reciting the facts stated in his lawsuit, but also emphasizing that he challenged Mark Zuckerberg shortly after he launched Facebook, not, as some press reports had it, only recently as Facebook became successful.

The Winklevosses' lawyer says that the brothers have no plans right now to seek a shutdown of Facebook, but it is a remedy they might seek at trial. He also dismisses Facebook's countersuit against ConnectU as a "nuisance" suit. (Of course, the Facebook users spammed by ConnectU might have different views on what constitutes a nuisance.) He adds that "there are no active settlement talks."