According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, Friendster is 'weighing its options' and deciding whether or not to sue some of their more successful counterparts for copyright infringement, based on the awarding of patents last month that appear to cover "a method and apparatus for calculating, displaying and acting upon relationships in a social network". Hopefully, they will weigh their options very carefully and NOT sue. This is really one of the biggest reasons why many of the social networks today will eventually fail, lose steam or have to reinvent themselves; they all want to be the center of ALL networking activity and have no desire to have open relationships with each other. I have discussed how annoying it is to have to sign up for all these different sites from youtube to flickr with many people recently, and how there should be a way to import friends, contacts, relationships and even data from one place to another. One group that freeformed has spoken with has contemplated this very thought. To me, it makes incredible amount of sense yet it appears that in the tradition of its existence, Friendster is out to make more enemies then friends.