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"Mr. Chieffo, a veteran entertainment lawyer, usually responds with what he calls "the facts of life" in the never-ending battle between these publications and

by cft 10y ago

"Mr. Chieffo, a veteran entertainment lawyer, usually responds with what he calls "the facts of life" in the never-ending battle between these publications and the famous people". Why 1. That Hogan had sex with his friend's wife 2. That he was taped are not "facts of life"?

jdminhbg 10y ago
Don't think the issue is that Gawker reported that Hogan was taped having sex with his friend's wife.
- chimeracoder 10y ago
  No, the issue is that they literally wrote a headline bragging about ignoring a court order to take it down[0]. Whether or not the lawsuit itself was justified (though the jury ultimately did thing so), it's pretty stupid to ignore a court order. It's even more appalling to brag about it the way they did. Quite frankly, they kind of got off easy, since the consequences could have been a lot worse. People literally go to jail for behavior like that. Look at Kim Davis, who was jailed for contempt. [0] http://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hogan-sex-tape-po-481328088 http://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hoga...
  - dingo_bat 10y ago
    I don't understand. Why did gawker fight for this? Was there any big ideal behind it or just for the lulz? I can understand if it was the President instead of hulk Hogan, but it's just a private individual in his private premises doing perfectly legal things. Why would you publish this and then fight the judicial system over it?
99812912 10y ago
I'm very glad that a lot of people here have zero chance to have any political influence, ever.
omegaham 10y ago
The biggest reason is that Gawker had a court order not to release the tape, and then did anyway. That's a very different issue than publishing a story.
- kupaka 10y ago
  No, they had a court order to take down the post, including the excerpt of the video that they posted, and they only took down the video (and, on appeal, was found to be in the right).

by cft 10y ago

jdminhbg 10y ago

Don't think the issue is that Gawker reported that Hogan was taped having sex with his friend's wife.

chimeracoder 10y ago
No, the issue is that they literally wrote a headline bragging about ignoring a court order to take it down[0]. Whether or not the lawsuit itself was justified (though the jury ultimately did thing so), it's pretty stupid to ignore a court order. It's even more appalling to brag about it the way they did. Quite frankly, they kind of got off easy, since the consequences could have been a lot worse. People literally go to jail for behavior like that. Look at Kim Davis, who was jailed for contempt. [0] http://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hogan-sex-tape-po-481328088 http://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hoga...
- dingo_bat 10y ago
  I don't understand. Why did gawker fight for this? Was there any big ideal behind it or just for the lulz? I can understand if it was the President instead of hulk Hogan, but it's just a private individual in his private premises doing perfectly legal things. Why would you publish this and then fight the judicial system over it?

99812912 10y ago

I'm very glad that a lot of people here have zero chance to have any political influence, ever.

omegaham 10y ago

The biggest reason is that Gawker had a court order not to release the tape, and then did anyway. That's a very different issue than publishing a story.

kupaka 10y ago
No, they had a court order to take down the post, including the excerpt of the video that they posted, and they only took down the video (and, on appeal, was found to be in the right).