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OK… where do you sign up for the sex tape scam?
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I understand the judge awarded him $25 million per inch.
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Ouch.
If it was just about Hogan’s sex tape they might have gotten away with it, but once the subject drifted into stuff like them publishing a video of a girl being sexually assaulted and, upon being asked by her to take it down, responded with “blah blah blah get over it,” that was the point where they were pretty much done. Regardless of if what they did is technically covered by the first amendment, in the end, people don’t care about “the law” so much as they care about justice. When you’re such massive scumbags that people hate you more than they like a free press they’re going to want to see you burn regardless of the law.
If you want to be mad at anyone for how this may harm free speech rights, be mad at Gawker. Because in the end the biggest threat to any freedom we have (speech, religion, right to bear arms, etc.) are the people who abuse that freedom so horribly that most people would rather see them be stopped/punished than have that freedom protected.
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Oh come now … stop don’t —
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Bubba did that tape and he did the tape in an attempt to get paid later. Hogan reportedly had issues after his divorce and Bubba offered up his now ex wife as a one night stand.
Now if this case was about Erin Andrews and her not knowing that she was being filmed, then I could agree with that settlement. But frankly while Hogan will still get maybe 3/4’s of a settlement, one of the issues that will still be in most folks wheelhouse is the following: who anted up that tape to Gawker?
ummmm
Steubenville?
and those guys are doing jail time.
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It depends - length or diameter?
Alex, I’ll take Slut Celebrities Playing Victim Cards for $115 Million…
It was a BS move by Gawker. They should have known better.
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Well, for length the ouch is for one person, for diameter it’s for the other.
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Does Gawker even have pockets that deep? $6.7 in profit on $45 million in revenue. Hulk, I mean Mr. Bollea, may be waiting a long time to get paid.
So this brings up another question: Can any celebrity who has changed his/her name claim invasion of privacy when s/he is having “private” time? How are people who give a shit about being around them supposed to tell?
And is this a three-dimensional setup by which Hulk, I mean Mr. Bollea, conspires with Bubba the Love Clam (and who is he in private?) to collect a huge payday?
No, there’s plenty of sleaze to go around on this one. l feel dirty just having gone this far.
Where will I go to get my “nineteen celebrities who had plastic surgery - number 13 will ASTONISH you!” info?
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Wise words indeed.
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$115 mill ought to heal the wounds, am I right?
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I can;t imagine any anyone would want to see his sex tape. Geezuz. Don’t people have anything better to do with their time.
Like make sex tapes and then sue to get richer)
This seems veeerry fishy to me.
That’s also the point where an appeals judge (if the jury actually thought that way and the judge didn’t clearly instruct them otherwise) voids the verdict and awards Gawker attorney’s fees. Juries are famous for awarding huge judgements against people and companies they think are rotten stinking bastards, and apellate judges are somewhat less famous for saying “No, you have to decide whether the act at the center of the lawsuit violated the law and how much damage it caused the plaintiff.” (Which is one of the reasons we have class actions, btw.)
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Yeah maybe you’re right
I hated the HH tape, also the outing of the CFO, that was BS. Unforced errors.
The part that gets me is I like many of their reporters and associated blogs. Jezebel, Deadspin, Jalopnik, FoxtrotAlpah, Gizmodo, Kotaku, etc.
The Gawker format with their links exposed me to things I don’t normally pay much attention to. I will hate it if they go away.
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