It’s not clear that lighting a match and dropping it in the public sphere is going to be a reliable way to bring closure.
— Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School, commenting to the New York Times about the online virality of salacious lawsuits. (The Times piece by Jodi Kantor gives a shout-out to Marchuk v. Faruqi & Faruqi, where the plaintiff’s “sizzling” allegations ultimately didn’t gain traction with the jury).