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Man Claims 84% of Facebook, Gets Order Blocking Assets

Cyrus writes "According to a Bloomberg scoop, a New York man claiming to own a majority of Facebook has gotten a signed court order to block Facebook from transferring assets."

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  1. Whats next???? by evanism · · Score: 5, Insightful

    given the "issues" Z-man has, one may wonder how many of these skeletons are in his closet? A bent sapling never grows straight.

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  2. Re:Contracts by Itninja · · Score: 3, Insightful

    seriously dough

    So I am guessing you were also a CS major?

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  3. Not going to matter by dward90 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Regardless of whether or not the guy wins some money in the lawsuit, nothing will change. Zuckerberg might be slightly less rich. But he will still be rich, and an asshole. Facebook will still suck.

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    1. Re:Not going to matter by bsDaemon · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Isn't Zuckerberg's money all on paper? And not the green, cash-y kind? My point is, if there is an injunction against transfer of assets, then can he sell his stock to get cash? Standard IANAL and all that, but this could prove to be more than just a passing amusement.

  4. Re:Not Facebook! by geekoid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    yes, there is no bigger pile of crap then a social media site that has made it easy for me to get in touch with family and friends, stay up to date in their lives.

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  5. Re:Not Facebook! by commodore64_love · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I like that pile of crap. It allowed me to relocate and connect with old high school and college classmates. I also learned about the reunion through facebook

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  6. Careful... by dpilot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No matter how big an jerk you may think Zuckerberg is, and no matter how bad you may think Facebook is, it is practically always possible to get worse.

    Not knowing anything that I didn't learn in the last 5 minutes, upon seeing this article, this Ceglia guy certainly has a running start on both. The enemy of your enemy may not be your friend - just a different enemy.

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  7. Re:Not Facebook! by Tom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    stay up to date in their lives.

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  8. Yes, your honor, it *is* on a bar napkin... by RevWaldo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...but it's a legally binding bar napkin!

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  9. O-L-D by IP_Troll · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The order baring transfer of assets was only good until July 9th, it is now July 13th. So what happened?

  10. Re:Not Facebook! by jadm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No offense, but 10 years ago, everything you wrote was being said about instant messaging, and before that, about email. [Citation needed], but I wouldn't be surprised if the same applied to telephones. So while I actually agree that Facebook is pretty grating and annoying, the arguments above are just the new "Get off my lawn".

  11. Re:Not Facebook! by blind+biker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can only speak for myself, of course, but I guess a lot of people who want this to happen (I am one of them) does so because of Zuckerberg rather than Facebook. Humans are naturally drawn towards justice and fairness, and see Zuckerberg as a person who denigrates his customers, abuses their privacy and takes advantage of their personal data - and always, ALWAYS pushes the boundaries of what Facebook is allowe3d to do and only retreats after a big community backlash. And so, people feel Zuckerberg does not deserve the fortune he has.

    Facebook could, otherwise, be a useful and safe tool, in the hands of an ethical leadership.

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  12. Re:Not Facebook! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe you shouldn't use Facebook then, and let the millions of other people who actually do enjoy using it, use it.

  13. Re:Not Facebook! by AndrewNeo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    More annoying to me (and more relevant to Slashdot) are sites that support Facebook Connect, but not OpenID.

  14. Re:Not Facebook! by Tuan121 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was kidding. But one can only hope something shuts down that huge pile of crap.

    Says the person with a twitter signature?

  15. Re:Not Facebook! by dave420 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why? Most people websites cater to will have a Facebook account, and if your users have Facebook accounts, sites can push their content to the FB users' friends. OpenID is great, but apart from being a mechanism to authenticate yourself, they are completely different.

  16. Re:Here is the photostat of the contract by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I predict a novel legal theory being invented that will protect the big corporation from a seemingly straightforward contract.

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  17. Re:Not Facebook! by PitaBred · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So block the app. It's not that hard. My friends all play those inane games, and I never see a peep of them. Only when a new one comes along do I see it, and that's very, very rare. 10 minutes of work too much for you to keep in touch with your family?

  18. Re:Not Facebook! by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So basically you are saying since you don't think Facebook is the most effective way to communicate, nobody else should either.

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  19. 8-bit über alles! by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    M.U.L.E. 0WNZ all your crappy newfangled web games and always will.

    since the beginning of time.

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  20. Re:Here is the photostat of the contract by Surt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I predict that thefacebook and facebook will be found to be separable entities, and that ceglia gets 84% of thefacebook.

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  21. Re:Not Facebook! by dunng808 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In this case the Slashdot conventional wisdom appears to be "Nobody needs Facebook." But, as is so often pointed out here, Slashdotters are not a representative cross-section of personallity types. Reference the frequent comments about women/dating/sex. Facebook addresses social interaction that is mostly incomprehensible to this group. On the other hand, if it weren't for the kinds of people who hang out here there would be no Facebook. Let's not fall into the "what is right for us is right for everyone" hole.

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