Comment by a2tech

The sex tape was provided to them legally by someone (bubba the love sponge) that had the right to give it away. It was video taped at his home with hogans permission and was bubbas property. Thiels lawyers was perusing multiple suits at the same time as the hogan suit-as part of their strategy of bankrupting gawker. It worked. Gawker felt like they were in the right but resource exhaustion got them in the end.