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Facebook Wants Ownership Case Thrown Out

Posted by samzenpus on from the your-own-personal-facebook dept.

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.'"

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  1. like wookies by lostros · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the chewbacca defense! look at the monkey, look at the silly monkey

  2. Re:What's this got to do with "my rights online"? by blair1q · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have the right to watch Facebook's ostensible founder go up in flames, online.

  3. Re:make sense? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, 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.

    //because I can.

  4. "Your Honor, I demand..." by CptNerd · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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
  5. Re:make sense? by djlowe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whose idea was it to centralize a location where college kids could keep in touch with one another? I don't know. We were doing it on VAX/VMS back in the early 90s before it was migrated to an OSF2 system. Long before that it was probably the direct successors to ARPANET. Zuckerberg is a newbie.

    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