Do they? Even if Gawker was in the wrong here, is publishing someone's private sex tape $140 million worth of wrong? What about all the other tabloids that have done something similar?

It's exactly this kind of "jackpot justice" that illustrates how bad the system is, that everyone is one sympathetic jury away from being shut down.

I can't upvote csallen's comment enough: the cost of being wrong is far too capricious. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11824026