However, yesterday, Ceglia introduced a new batch of emails that support his claim of a 50 percent stake (you can see them here), and his case is building buzz and curiosity. One exchange between Ceglia and Zuckerberg sticks out in particular. To put it in context, Zuckerberg is arguing with Ceglia over the initial terms of their contract in which Ceglia was entitled to a "1% per day" stake in Facebook every day the launch of the social network was delayed. At the time of this exchange, Facebook's launch had been delayed so long that Ceglia was entitled to an 80 percent stake in the site. Zuckerberg was writing Ceglia to say this wasn't fair because a) Zuckerberg had done all the work on it and b) the launch was delayed because Zuckerberg was doing development work on Ceglia's other site StreetFax.com. Here's the crucial exchange:

Zuckerberg:

Ceglia agrees to the 50/50 ownership agreement:

People now reading the emails are beginning to take them very seriously. "The emails don't read 'fake,' writes Henry Blodget at Business Insider. Felix Salmon at Reuters agrees. "The emails Facebook says are fake don't seem that way to me." In any event, everyone agrees that, if the emails are fake, it should be easy for Facebook to demonstrate that. "Facebook almost certainly has a forensic analysis of Mark Zuckerberg's hard drives and email boxes from this period, because these drives would have been the same ones analyzed in the Winklevoss lawsuit," writes Blodget. "Perhaps the drives show different versions of the emails in question--or no emails at all."

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