[atonse]

It's very likely that this was an intentional leak to send a message to other media outlets that they should think twice before attacking billionaires.

Nothing to stop the Koch brothers from doing this.

[ryanlol]

I thought he himself came out with this? I think even "intentional leak" is taking it a bit too far.

The goal here seems to be to make sure that Gawker won't be able to secure funding for further litigation which it'll lose anyway.