"Closing the book", Gawker releases data on traffic and posting statistics

[Skeptic]

@piers_whyte

Every time I think about this case I think of how much a snowball’s chance in hell I’d have as a relatively poor private citizen fighting a company the size of gawker. They got their day in court before a jury in a situation where the lawyers on each side were well-paid and the jury said “guilty”.

Yeah, about that, the actual guilty party was never tried in civil court. It was Hogan’s “friend” Bubba and Bubba’s wife who convinced Hogan to have an affair, who secretly recorded it, and leaked it. Hogan settled with Bubba for $5,000. The $10,000,000 that Thiel spent on this skewed the lawsuit against Gawker rather than the people who actually tricked Hogan and infringed on his privacy.