<i>Winklevoss twins lose Facebook appeal</i>

Winklevoss twins

A US appeals court ruled on Monday that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss can't back out of the settlement deal they made in a lawsuit charging that Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for Facebook.
"The Winklevosses are not the first parties bested by a competitor who then seek to gain through litigation what they were unable to achieve in the marketplace," the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said.
"At some point, litigation must come to an end," the court said. "That point has now been reached."
Twin brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss claim they enlisted Zuckerberg to finish software code for their ConnectU social-networking website while they were all students at Harvard University in 2003.
Zuckerberg, a second year student at the time, took their code and their idea and launched Facebook in February 2004 instead of holding up his end of the deal, according to the brothers. Facebook rejects that account.
Hollywood made the saga famous in the hit film "The Social Network."
The twins inked a settlement two years ago that got them $20 million in cash and $45 million worth of stock valued at $36 per share.