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Facebook Wants Ownership Case Thrown Out
crimeandpunishment writes "Attorneys for Facebook and a New York man claiming majority ownership of the site faced off in a Buffalo courtroom Tuesday, and if Facebook gets its way there won't be too many more days in court. The site wants to get Paul Ceglia's claim thrown out of court. He claims a seven-year-old agreement with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg entitles him to 84 percent of the company. Facebook acknowledges Ceglia and Zuckerberg worked together, but says the contract Ceglia submitted was full of 'things that don't make sense.'"
It's the chewbacca defense! look at the monkey, look at the silly monkey
when you write a contract while stoned and in college.
"...this new social network..."
Then, almost at once, all the users of social neworking, games, apps, all of it, almost to a man, woke up, and yelled "I've been spending 10 years of my life doing what????
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
Ah, but you're forgetting the Chewbacca Defense!
-Peter
I'd love to submit an amicus curiae brief to some random trial and just copy paste www.timecube.com .
If it's part of the court record, they've got to read it, right?
You have the right to watch Facebook's ostensible founder go up in flames, online.
Let the wookie win
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well maybe not now, when it's "worth" so much, but back then when he was just a thieving punk kid with no money the relationship was beneficial to him. Contracts don't need to be written by lawyers to be legally binding.
Zuckerberg had turned down an offer to work with Microsoft on MP3 playing software ("Synapse") for hundreds of thousands of dollars when he was still in high school. While I know he worked with the Ceglia guy on streetfax for something like $1,000, I doubt he would have sold half of an idea like facebook for merely $1,000, especially since Ceglia was offering absolutely nothing other than the $1,000 -- Zuckerberg would be doing all the work.
Note to self: Stop putting jokes in my insightful comments so I can get something other than +1 Funny!
Hopefully Zuckerberg will realize he's actually bound to comply with his agreement, and will find a way to settle with Ceglia.
Hopefully? Hopefully Ceglia will acquire Facebook and as a result Facebook goes down in ruin, obliterated in full.
Ceglia is Gandalf. Zuckerberg is Sauron. And Facebook is Orodruin, or Mt. Doom, the pinnacle of Mordor.
The veiling shadow that glowers in the East takes shape. Sauron will suffer no rival. From the summit of Barad-dur his eye watches ceaselessly. But he is not so mighty yet that he is above fear. Doubt ever gnaws at him. The rumor has reached him. The heir of Facebook still lives.
I heard they have a brazilian members!
"Your Honor, I demand this contract be thrown out as evidence!"
"On what grounds?"
"On the grounds that it incriminates my client!"
By the taping of my glasses, something geeky this way passes
Erm.. Ceglia is Saruman. He doesn't want to destroy the precious. He wants to have its power for himself.
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
Not when their attorney is Lisa Simpson!
Ceglia's only chance is to get Milhouse on his team.
To be honest, most of us are dumb fucks. I don't fault him for that.
On a related note, does anyone work in technical support here?
Wow ...
I got a bridge over the ocean in Arizona, right on the beach ... I'll sell it to you for $1 since you seem like such a nice guy. Its right next to the nice guys at Zynga.
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I don't understand this analogy. I've never heard of these kinds of cars!
I hereby nominate the parent post for the soon to be announced "First Yearly Most Irrelevant Slashdot Posts Awards", under the category of "Gosh, We Did Something Similar First Back In The Day And I Thought I'd Mention It Though It Has No Bearing At All On The Topic At Hand" category (Subtitle: "Sour Grapes". Sub-subtitle: "Sweet Jesus, Why Didn't *I* Think To Do That On The Internet?!?").
:)
I'm kidding: There'll never be such on Slashdot, especially with that category - there would be 'way too many entries, and I'd be posting my own irrelevancies to every discussion, so as to be able to later flood the award nomination submission queue myself!
Regards,
dj