“Perhaps the most curious aspect of the trial is that there was one. Few traditional publishers would have ever found themselves in this position. Both because the issue would have seemed tenuous enough and dubious enough to avoid — showing a surreptitiously recorded clip of a sexual encounter — or because it would have been settled beforehand. As strong as the publishing industry’s belief in free speech is its belief about never going in front of a jury.”
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