• The Ceglia Vs. Zuckerberg Story Gets Its Own Taiwanese Animation

    Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

    Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

    After parsing through all the alleged Paul Ceglia and Mark Zuckerberg emails in the Ceglia vs. Zuckerberg amendment, all I can say is that I’m pretty excited for The Social Network 2. In the meantime we’ll all have to make due with this animation from Taiwan’s NMA News.

    Partially traffic-baiting tech blogs and partially expressing creativity in what has to be hours of mind-numbing CGI work, the geniuses at NMA have this time chosen to portray Facebook as one battleship, convicted felon Paul Ceglia and his law firm DLA Piper as another trying to attack Facebook with canons and of course the recently deposed Winklevoss twins as rowers, whose dinky row boat is capsized by Facebook.

    The infamous Ceglia woodchipper even makes an appearance!

    Ceglia claims that Mark Zuckerberg signed over 50% of a project that eventually became Facebook in a contract he signed while working on another Ceglia site, Streetfax.com. While Facebook has called the contract and correspondence fake, the only people who have absolute 100% percent knowledge as to whether the emails are legit (portrayed as seagulls in this video, presumably because of the nautical theme) are Zuckerberg and Ceglia.

    So if this is a The Social Network sequel, no one is quite sure how it ends, yet.

    Company: Facebook
    Website: facebook.com
    Launch Date: February 1, 2004
    IPO: NASDAQ:FB

    Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 845 million monthly active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original...

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    Person: Paul Ceglia
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    Paul Ceglia is an entrepreneur, and is currently the owner of a wood pellet fuel company in upstate New York. However, Ceglia is perhaps most famous for claiming to be a part owner of the social networking giant, Facebook. On June 30, 2010, Ceglia filed a lawsuit against Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg, claiming 84% ownership of Facebook and seeking monetary damages. According to Ceglia, he and Zuckerberg signed a contract on April 28, 2003 that an initial fee of...

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