Is this the largest blog-related lawsuit to date? Pardon the pun, but wonder how will this one shake out? Nick Denton has rolled the dice on hosting via Gawker, albeit for “only two hours”, a stolen sex video from Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst. See Gawker’s disclaimer:

Gawker is a gossip site. The site publishes both rumors and conjecture, in addition to accurately reported information. Information on this site may contain errors or inaccuracies; the site’s proprietors do not make warranty as to the correctness or reliability of the site’s content. Links to content on and quotation of material from other sites are not the responsibility of Gawker Media.

I’m not a lawyer, but I seriously doubt this disclaimer will protect the hosting of the video by Gawker because it doesn’t matter if it was for two days, two years, two minutes or two hours, if there was no consent here on Durst’s part for the release of this video. I’d guess that the upstream hosting providers will fare better in this one. One thing that does stand out is the $80 million dollars price tag for a look at Durst’s privates (no thanks), and I suspect this is more about money and exposure than family jewels being exposed. We’ll see, er, I mean thank goodness most of us didn’t see.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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