Facebook law suit - surely no case to answer?!

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If I ask someone who can write code to implement my brilliant web-based idea, and then instead of doing it for me - they just go ahead and do it without me - effectively of course 'stealing' the idea - surely in law there is absolutely no recourse here?

You can't 'own' an idea.

It's a question of trust - and if that gets betrayed - then tough, surely?