Hogan vs Gawker begins

[waggy]

115 million, you got to be kidding me....

sure. It destroyed hogans reputation. after this video came out WWE scrubbed anything to do with him. They cancelled events and publications.

It cost him a LOT of money. 115 million does not seem to far off.

Also after reading about the comments the head of gawker made during the trail i feel it should have been more. totally bankrupt them.

I don't buy his excuse of joking about posting videos of 5+ yr olds. that's not something you joke about in a trial

 

[Fanatical Meat]

A Judge told them to take it down and they refused. They set themselves up for it.

I get it however

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/20/med...nsealed-documents/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom

According to the unsealed documents, Clem told the FBI that Hogan was aware he was being recorded before backpedaling on that claim in subsequent depositions.
Related: Hulk Hogan awarded $115 million in Gawker sex tape case
"Hulk knew," Clem told federal agents, saying there was "an obvious camera in play."
The unsealed records also suggest that Heather Cole was aware she was being recorded, contradicting her sworn testimony.
"I tried to get past the pain and enjoy it," she is quoted telling Clem in one of the DVDs. "You'll probably see my face squirming."

 

[Ns1]

their tears, they taste so delicious.

JUST IN: Jury awards $25M in punitive damages to Hulk Hogan in sex tape lawsuit, on top of $115M already awarded

 

[Ns1]

ooooooooooooooooooooooh shit. GGPO gawker.

2ND UPDATE, 10:30 AM: Florida Circuit Judge Pamela Campbell today upheld ex-pro wrestler Hulk Hogan’s $140M verdict against Gawker in his lawsuit for publishing his sex tape. There will be no new trial.

 

[Elixer]

ooooooooooooooooooooooh shit. GGPO gawker.

Best news of the day!
Now, that site can die.

 

[OutHouse]

ooooooooooooooooooooooh shit. GGPO gawker.

lol, good. maybe this will send a message.

 

[Jodell88]

ooooooooooooooooooooooh shit. GGPO gawker.

 

[Blackjack200]

Holy shit, do not fuck with Peter Thiel.

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/25/fo...gawker-may-have-been-a-dish-best-served-cold/

That's some Eric Cartman Scott Tenorman level shit right there. Dude was waiting seven years to take revenge on Gawker.

 

[Jodell88]

Holy shit, do not fuck with Peter Thiel.

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/25/fo...gawker-may-have-been-a-dish-best-served-cold/

That's some Eric Cartman Scott Tenorman level shit right there. Dude was waiting seven years to take revenge on Gawker.

 

[TwiceOver]

Holy shit, do not fuck with Peter Thiel.

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/25/fo...gawker-may-have-been-a-dish-best-served-cold/

That's some Eric Cartman Scott Tenorman level shit right there. Dude was waiting seven years to take revenge on Gawker.

Love it.

 

[zinfamous]

Holy shit, do not fuck with Peter Thiel.

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/25/fo...gawker-may-have-been-a-dish-best-served-cold/

That's some Eric Cartman Scott Tenorman level shit right there. Dude was waiting seven years to take revenge on Gawker.

I like Gawker's take on it

http://gawker.com/reports-tech-billionaire-peter-thiel-secretly-bankroll-1778549060

 

[Ns1]

Holy shit, do not fuck with Peter Thiel.

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/25/fo...gawker-may-have-been-a-dish-best-served-cold/

That's some Eric Cartman Scott Tenorman level shit right there. Dude was waiting seven years to take revenge on Gawker.

Updated interview.


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/business/dealbook/peter-thiel-tech-billionaire-reveals-secret-war-with-gawker.html?_r=0&referer=http://drudgereport.com/

 

[waggy]

Holy shit, do not fuck with Peter Thiel.

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/25/fo...gawker-may-have-been-a-dish-best-served-cold/

That's some Eric Cartman Scott Tenorman level shit right there. Dude was waiting seven years to take revenge on Gawker.

Holly shit. LOL

 

[darkswordsman17]

That's an interesting wrinkle to this. Not sure how I feel about that. Mostly I'm ok since he didn't seem to do anything particularly nefarious beyond putting up money and helping find good quality lawyers, but it could present some troubling prospects in the future, especially seeing how many governments have been moving to stifle press freedom (absolutely a major valid complaint about Obama is the lack of transparency that has permeated throughout government, and frankly both Hilary and Trump are likely to be even worse, possibly much much worse).

 

[master_shake_]

I like Gawker's take on it

http://gawker.com/reports-tech-billionaire-peter-thiel-secretly-bankroll-1778549060

heres the TL;DR version

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

i'm paraphrasing of course.

 

[Paratus]

Nick Denton just put out an open letter to Thiels. Challenged him to a debate

http://gawker.com/an-open-letter-to-peter-thiel-1778991227

 

[waggy]

Nick Denton just put out an open letter to Thiels. Challenged him to a debate

http://gawker.com/an-open-letter-to-peter-thiel-1778991227

LOL that letter is a great example of what NOT to do. the guy doesn't get it..


yeah lets piss of the guy that is funding the lawsuits that are destroying the company.lol

 

[darkswordsman17]

Debate? WTF? That makes no sense whatsoever. Wow, its easy to see why Gawker is such a shitty company with such a shit for brains running it.

 

[PottedMeat]

Nick Denton just put out an open letter to Thiels. Challenged him to a debate

http://gawker.com/an-open-letter-to-peter-thiel-1778991227

if this were to happen i think there would be a greater than zero chance of denton bending over and spraying thiels with diarrhea

 

[smackababy]

Rofl. How exactly is Theils doing anything wrong? If Gawker hadn't done something incredibly questionably outside the law, they wouldn't have gotten sued in the first place.

 

[Exophase]

Nick Denton just put out an open letter to Thiels. Challenged him to a debate

http://gawker.com/an-open-letter-to-peter-thiel-1778991227

A gay man telling a gay man that a third gay man was justified in outing him because he accrued more wealth. That's rather astonishing. Yeah, Denton has a really hard time knowing when to shut up.

I don't know what's worse, thinking that it's okay to reveal someone's sexual orientation because it could lead to positive attention or actually believing that Thiel's success had anything to do with said revelation.

 

[K1052]

A gay man telling a gay man that a third gay man was justified in outing him because he accrued more wealth. That's rather astonishing. Yeah, Denton has a really hard time knowing when to shut up.

I don't know what's worse, thinking that it's okay to reveal someone's sexual orientation because it could lead to positive attention or actually believing that Thiel's success had anything to do with said revelation.

I don't buy anything Denton says. Certainly not after they outed that Conde Nast CFO and helped his blackmailer make good on his threat in the process over a story that wasn't even remotely newsworthy. I don't like Thiel but I like Denton even less. He's just getting what he had coming.

 

[zinfamous]

That's an interesting wrinkle to this. Not sure how I feel about that. Mostly I'm ok since he didn't seem to do anything particularly nefarious beyond putting up money and helping find good quality lawyers, but it could present some troubling prospects in the future, especially seeing how many governments have been moving to stifle press freedom (absolutely a major valid complaint about Obama is the lack of transparency that has permeated throughout government, and frankly both Hilary and Trump are likely to be even worse, possibly much much worse).

I totally agree with this. It's a very problematic situation.

 

[Joepublic2]

As certain somebodies love to remind us, Gawker has freedom of speech, but they don't have freedom from the consequences of that speech.

Time to die, Gawker.

Remember, this is the same group of people that will readily destroy somebody's livelyhood because they said something that may have hurt somebody's feelings on the internet. Now they're crying because that sword cuts both ways.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Reading the comment responses on Ars left me baffled. I can't believe how many people were going "gawker is shit, but Gizmodo is good". Gizmodo is right in line with the rest of the gawker shit. There was that time they fucked with companies' presentations at CES (I think they used an IR blaster to fuck with like powerpoint type stuff), the stolen iPhone case, and some of the other shit they did that I've forgotten about.

I totally agree with this. It's a very problematic situation.

Its a weird situation. Takes a billionaire to be able to front the cost of putting up a good case against a large (but hardly massive) corporation in what is basically a slam dunk case. Sad state of our legal system. But the chilling affect of having to have lots of money to be able to bring worthwhile cases against rich entities is alarming.