As we discussed the other day, Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was going after 02138mag.com for publishing documents from his time at Harvard. The social network founder was requesting the documents be pulled due to them violating his privacy. According to the judge, the documents were part of the "core journalism", and that they were made available by the magazine as a way for readers to further evaluate the story.

The documents were originally part of the court case between ConnectU and Zuckerburg. This was the case where the smaller social network alleged that Zuckerburg had stolen ideas from them to begin Facebook. During that case, Facebook's CEO had requested that the documents be sealed, but somehow they still made their way to 02138. This was the basis of his case against the magazine, but he still lost.

In the wake of all the questions over privacy due to Facebook's "Beacon" service, this is just endlessly amusing in how ironic it is.

(via allthingsd)