I'm a big believer in freedom of the press, but Gawker distributed surreptitiously recorded sex tapes without the knowledge or consent of participants. That's i

I'm a big believer in freedom of the press, but Gawker distributed surreptitiously recorded sex tapes without the knowledge or consent of participants. That's illegal and it should be illegal. It's not just this one case either. They did it repeatedly: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a55146/gawker-editor-sex-tape-aj-daulerio/ https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a55146/gawker-edi... It's not outrageous that a person with billions of dollars footed the legal bill to take the cases to trial. It is outrageous that the victims, even one with millions of dollars, couldn't afford an adequate legal effort to get a fair showing under the law without a benefactor.