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by irq11 5805 days ago
Your position is as biased as any other -- you're just choosing to focus on Zuckerberg's age, and consequently assume that he was victimized. Perhaps that's true, perhaps not.

When I look at this, I see an incredibly unsophisticated legal agreement. The author of the contract hardly strikes me as a knowledgable player, and I'm not inclined to assume that he ever had the upper hand in a battle of wits with Zuckerberg. In any case, the fact that a contract is poorly written doesn't automatically make me disregard it's intent, and here the intent of the contract is so clear that even Mark Zuckerberg -- innocent babe that he was -- could have understood it.

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Right but it's exactly the intent that seems almost predatory, however legally unsophisticated it is. Let's assume, as seems reasonable, that both parties were fairly clueless and acting without the benefit of good professional advice. When you read the contract, doesn't the stuff Ceglia is asking for seem kind of nuts? And not in any technical legal sense, just in general.