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"[Now that we've lost] I'm more confident than ever that we will come out on top." is a pretty amazing attitude.
 
Gawker have always been the journalistic equivalent of fucking vultures and hopefully this is the one that brings them down. Remember when Gawker tried to crowdfund 100k to buy a video from crack dealers of that crackhead Canadian mayor smoking crack? Honestly this was a long way coming.
 
Dr. Tran said:
Gawker have always been the journalistic equivalent of fucking vultures and hopefully this is the one that brings them down. Remember when Gawker tried to crowdfund 100k to buy a video from crack dealers of that crackhead Canadian mayor smoking crack? Honestly this was a long way coming.
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They're lucky there wasn't a creative prosecutor around, because they could have been nailed for conspiracy, solicitation, drug distribution, and all kinds of crimes for that.
 
I am going to necro. Apparently one of the founders of paypal, Peter Thiel, is funding this. Gawker made some powerful enemies in Silicon Valley with their antics.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac...-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker/#5c4638bb7805

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...secretly-funding-hulk-hogan-lawsuit/84883502/

Choice quote:
Money may not have been the main motivation in the first place. Thiel, who is gay, has made no secret of his distaste for Gawker, which attempted to out him in late 2007 before he was open about his sexuality. In 2009, Thiel told PEHub that now-defunct Silicon Valley-focused publication Valleywag, which was owned by Gawker, had the “psychology of a terrorist.”

“Valleywag is the Silicon Valley equivalent of Al Qaeda,” Thiel said at the time.
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There is also the fact that more suits are coming too...

A partner with Harder Mirell & Abrams LLP, Harder is a well-known Hollywood lawyer whose past clients included George Clooney, Julia Roberts and a slew of other celebrities. He is also representing plaintiffs against Gawker in other lawsuits, including a defamation case on behalf of Shiva Ayydurai in Boston that was filed earlier this month. Ayydurai, who claims to have invented email, was the subject of a story by Gawker journalist Sam Biddle, who wrote that the plaintiff was a “fraud” according to former colleagues. Ayydurai’s lawsuit seeks “no less than $35 million in damages.”

Harder has represented writer Ashley Terrill since January and filed an amended complaint in her lawsuit against Gawker and Biddle in April. She alleges that the site published “a false and highly defamatory hit-piece” about her written by Biddle last year after she had initiated a working relationship with Gawker to publish a story. Earlier this month Gawker’s lawyers argued that Terrill’s case should be dismissed. On May 18, the judge in the case gave Terrill’s legal team two weeks to file a second amended complaint before the case moved forward. As of Tuesday, no additional documents have been filed in the case.”
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SunLightStreak said:
I am going to necro. Apparently one of the founders of paypal, Peter Thiel, is funding this. Gawker made some powerful enemies in Silicon Valley with their antics.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac...-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker/#5c4638bb7805

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...secretly-funding-hulk-hogan-lawsuit/84883502/

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There is also the fact that more suits are coming too...
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Looks like Hogan's suit has opened the flood gates of people unhappy with Gawker's practises. Good.
Glad to see what goes around, comes around.
With any luck, they'll be sued into oblivion and disappear soon.
 
SunLightStreak said:
I am going to necro. Apparently one of the founders of paypal, Peter Thiel, is funding this. Gawker made some powerful enemies in Silicon Valley with their antics.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac...-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker/#5c4638bb7805

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...secretly-funding-hulk-hogan-lawsuit/84883502/

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There is also the fact that more suits are coming too...
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Even the world's smallest violin is too big to convey the apathy toward Gawker's legal struggles.
 
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Biddle's name keeps coming up a lot in these.
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Ka-ching. Hope Nick Denton doesn't mind paying out more of those Biddle bucks he used to think were so funny.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/12/8558320/gawker-discusses-cost-gamergate

The "gamergate" controversy cost Gawker Media "seven figures" in lost advertising revenue, the company's head of advertising Andrew Gorenstein said at an all-hands meeting on Wednesday afternoon, according to two people in attendance at the meeting.
 
Dr. Tran said:
Gawker have always been the journalistic equivalent of fucking vultures and hopefully this is the one that brings them down. Remember when Gawker tried to crowdfund 100k to buy a video from crack dealers of that crackhead Canadian mayor smoking crack? Honestly this was a long way coming.
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Now is that just saying they're vultures, colloquially, or that they are equivalent to having intercourse with vultures? Two very different things.
 
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