Agreed. Gawker have obviously done the wrong thing and do deserve to pay but... 115 million? That's injustice. 

"People could lose jobs" - Not compelling motivation for a court to ignore misconduct.  Also, you think 115 million is steep?  Yeah, that's just the jury award.  Wait until the punitive damages come in, which can be up to 3x the amount of the jury award :)  

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If someone has an AH.com account, please let me know what they think of this. I have to laugh a bit!

Good for you, brother!

His net worth was 8 million before this so.... What... 500k a year on a legends contract and a couple of wresltemania apperences? 

It's also been wwe for about 20 years now. Trust me, it's unreasonable. 

Moved to general discussion.

OT: Probably a good attempt to find balance between free press and personal freedom.

This is what people need to remember in terms of the damage that they were happy to do, it was a sex tape recorded without the knowledge of the person in it, released without their consent, uploaded and taken out of their control, even when a court judge told them to remove it, they refused.

Even the fucking moderators at 4chan had the decency to remove the constant threads of the fappening pictures from there after the initial couple of days and shit storm had gone over, but clearly from what Gawker got in terms of views on these 2 Hulk articles 4.9m and 242k views pictured here, compared to their normal drival (combined less than 1m views from both articles trying to be white knights about nude pictures) whoever was in charge of both sides of those articles should really take a long look at themselves in the mirror (if they can afford one) and think if the genders were reversed would they have insisted on keeping up a sex tape of a woman and suggested blending your phone and hand for taking a nude pic of Hogan and sharing it online?

Also when it comes to Hulks image and what it is worth, keep in mind that it isn't just what he has in the bank, his estate would still be earning money for years to come even after Hulks death selling Hulkamania t-shirts and DVD boxsets of his matches if his career had come to a proper clean end with the WWE on top of obvious money for appearences at WWE events over the next few years.

Punitive Damages have been determined:

BREAKING: Hulk Hogan sex video jury awards $25M in punitive damages, above the $115 million already awarded.

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 21, 2016