Facebook threatens to sue man who changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg(mashable.com)
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Facebook threatens to sue man who changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg
http://mashable.com/2011/12/16/facebook-sue-mark-zuckerberg/
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I feel bad for his family ("he says he plans to change his family's names as well"). I imagine him having a teenage son or daughter that can't wait to be seen at school the next day.
Man sells likes, Facebook sues. What this has to do with someone's name or why anybody, Facebook included, should care, is beyond me.
Ignoring the name of the business owner, what are the grounds for the lawsuit that Facebook is filing, or threatening to file?
Israeli entrepreneur Rotem Guez has legally changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg. It’s his latest response to a legal battle he’s fighting with the social networking giant over his Like Store.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-is-suing-mark-zu...
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-is-suing-mark-zu...
It seems like this guy violated Facebook's Terms of Service, so they shut down his account. I don't understand how violating Facebook's ToS gives Facebook the right to sue. I was asking about that legal detail.
If a business were to pay 5000 third-party individuals to "Like" a page, that business might not have a Facebook page and may have never agreed to the Facebook ToS. In such a case it seems to me that Facebook's only option would be to shut down the 5000 accounts who posted fraudulent Likes.
How does one distinguish a fraudulent Like from a true Like? If someone gave me money to Like something, I might go check it out, and actually, truly, like it. Then what? What if I Liked the thing but gave the money back? It seems to me that a judge or jury would have to decide these things, after gathering evidence and testimony, and there's no way to scale that.
Obviously Facebook will be able to find the businesses offering to pay for Likes, but I don't see how they can go after them (legally) if they have no direct connection to Facebook.
(The 'Like Store' in this story did have a direct connection to Facebook, so Facebook was able to shut that down and able to invoke the Facebook ToS.)
If a business were to pay 5000 third-party individuals to "Like" a page, that business might not have a Facebook page and may have never agreed to the Facebook ToS. In such a case it seems to me that Facebook's only option would be to shut down the 5000 accounts who posted fraudulent Likes.
How does one distinguish a fraudulent Like from a true Like? If someone gave me money to Like something, I might go check it out, and actually, truly, like it. Then what? What if I Liked the thing but gave the money back? It seems to me that a judge or jury would have to decide these things, after gathering evidence and testimony, and there's no way to scale that.
Obviously Facebook will be able to find the businesses offering to pay for Likes, but I don't see how they can go after them (legally) if they have no direct connection to Facebook.
(The 'Like Store' in this story did have a direct connection to Facebook, so Facebook was able to shut that down and able to invoke the Facebook ToS.)
I hope facebook sues this psycho guy out of his mind, he is a disgrace as an "entrepreneur"