A Florida jury granted famous wrestler Hulk Hogan $115 million in compensatory damages to be paid by Gawker, the news site that Hogan has accused of violating his privacy by publishing a video of him engaged in a sex act. An adverse verdict is what Gawker was expecting, and the company plans to appeal, but even if Gawker prevails the need to post a bond equivalent to the full total of damages ordered will be a major financial burden.

The details are about as salacious as they come: pornographic footage of Hulk Hogan having sex with a friend’s wife, taken without his knowledge and later posted on Gawker based on an anonymous tip.

The iconic wrestler (whose real name is Terry Bollea) sued the site claiming privacy violations and emotional damage after the video was posted in 2012.

Gawker, on the other hand, claims it had a right to post the video, which was a matter of "public concern."

Both sides have declared the trial's outcome could have outsize consequences: Hogan is claiming a loss would mean weakened privacy for all Americans; Gawker says that if Hogan prevails, the nation’s press freedoms are at risk.

Legal experts tend to agree that no matter how the case is decided, it will help clarify the largely undefined line between privacy and freedom of expression on the internet.

Hogan argues that the video’s publication was a unique and humiliating violation of privacy

The grainy surveillance footage in question was taken in 2006 of Hogan and Heather Clem having sex in Clem’s home she shared with her then-husband, radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge Clem (born Todd Alan Clem, though he legally changed his name).

Hogan has claimed that the video was taken without his knowledge or consent, a fact that Bubba Clem disputed to Howard Stern.

Clem says the video was stolen from his office — though no one has accounted for how the video was then distributed.

Gawker then received the full 30-minute video, burned onto a DVD and mailed to its office in Manhattan. Rather than posting the video in its entirety, Gawker cut a "highlight reel" featuring about 101 seconds of footage, of which about 9 seconds contain actual sex acts.

Regardless of how it surfaced, Hogan’s lawyers argued to the six-person jury that Gawker’s publication of the video was a crass tool to pull in ad dollars and clicks. It served no purpose for the public good, they say, and inflicted significant emotional and privacy damage to the now-retired wrestler.

"There’s a world of difference between discussing something and showing a pornographic video, something that goes online and can be seen forever," David Houston, Hogan’s personal lawyer, told the New York Times. Hogan’s legal team is not challenging the text of Gawker’s post, which described the full 30-minute video, blow by blow, in lurid and unflattering detail.

Gawker argues in return that as a celebrity who frequently raises details of his own sex life — including the video’s existence — Hogan has created sufficient public interest around the topic to merit the video’s publication.

Houston told the Times that Hogan has been known to say outrageous things in appearances as a wrestling personality. "But that does not mean that Terry Bollea the person has forsaken all rights of privacy," he said.

Hogan asked for the huge sum in part to deter other publications from publishing similarly slanderous private details about other celebrities, his lawyer said. But First Amendment experts say even if Hogan wins the case, the monetary award is incredibly high.

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/8/11181536/hulk-hogan-gawker

Gawker thinks posting Hogan's sex tape served a valid purpose

In addition to arguing that Hogan exempts himself from some privacy expectations by virtue of the fact that he’s a celebrity, Gawker makes the case that posting the video of him and Heather Clem ultimately served the public’s interest.

Gawker posted the video seven months after TMZ first reported its existence and five months since the gossip website the Dirty posted screen shots — all after Hogan had repeatedly denied sleeping with Heather Clem. The site’s lawyers will point to these posts as evidence that the public had an interest in seeing the video.

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otunbakplu:
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Jazzlite:
A Florida jury granted famous wrestler Hulk Hogan $115 million in compensatory damages to be paid by Gawker, the news site that Hogan has accused of violating his privacy by publishing a video of him engaged in a sex act. An adverse verdict is what Gawker was expecting, and the company plans to appeal, but even if Gawker prevails the need to post a bond equivalent to the full total of damages ordered will be a major financial burden.
The details are about as salacious as they come: pornographic footage of Hulk Hogan having sex with a friend’s wife, taken without his knowledge and later posted on Gawker based on an anonymous tip.
The iconic wrestler (whose real name is Terry Bollea) sued the site claiming privacy violations and emotional damage after the video was posted in 2012.
Gawker, on the other hand, claims it had a right to post the video, which was a matter of "public concern."
Both sides have declared the trial's outcome could have outsize consequences.
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/8/11181536/hulk-hogan-gawker

Jazzlite:
read the bolded

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