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YouTube Blocked in Brazil

keeboo writes "The popular video sharing site YouTube is now blocked in Brazil due to a local court decision last Thursday. The site was ordered to block the uploaded sex videos of Brazilian media starlet Daniela Cicarelli and, although it complied, many users kept re-uploading it to the site. After the failure of YouTube to keep the video off of the site, the domain was blocked nationwide at a DNS level. Predictably, many Brazilians are annoyed and I've started to receive even SPAMs protesting on this blocking. From the article: 'The case now goes automatically to a three-member panel of judges who will decide whether to make the order permanent and whether to fine YouTube as much as US$119,000 (euro91,000) for each day the video was viewable, said Rubens Decousseau Tilkian.'"

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  1. Of course! by Jason+Straight · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course they are all angry it's blocked! They want to see the damn video!

  2. For the next time... by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Try not make love in front of masses of people on a public beach.

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  3. Not so sure... by srgvie · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure about this post.Im accessing youtube right now.

    1. Re:Not so sure... by keeboo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, I'm in Brazil and I can access youtube normally.

      No problem, no need to worry.
      Please provide me your IP and I'll gladly forward it to the authorities so they can fix that.

    2. Re:Not so sure... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sure! It's 127.0.0.1!

  4. Only 119,000 a day? by canyon289 · · Score: 4, Funny

    In international news, The Brazilian goverment has just recieved 10 shares of Google.

  5. Re:The inevietable obligatory question. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that all?

    So where's the money shot?

  6. Re:The inevietable obligatory question. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now you did it! They'll block Google too!

  7. Re:Agreed by gardyloo · · Score: 1, Funny

    the fact remains that most of the living creatures on the planet have sex, including most humans. We are built for it and driven to it.

          You're new here, aren't you?

  8. Re:The inevietable obligatory question. by sumdumass · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think the problem revolves around the quickness of the sex. I dunno if it was just editing or if it was realy over that fast but it probably embarassed her and her boy/guy about how quick it was over with.

    I think it was the editing. That or she is missing out on something.

  9. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  10. Re:Work around? by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all, the Intarnet was designed to route pr0n around a nuclear war--it has special tubes for that!

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  11. Re:The inevietable obligatory question. by Otter · · Score: 4, Funny
    Bah, it doesn't even have anything explicit (other than a very blurry image of a couple making out in skimpy clothes).

    And almost all of it seems to have taken place at public places (i.e. beaches, parties etc.)

    I believe that wearing skimpy clothing to the beach is considered very scandalous in Brazil.

  12. Re:The inevietable obligatory question. by kalpaha · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought whoever filmed the first video was a creepy stalker. Well, the new video takes creepiness to a whole new level. What are those things in the movie anyway?

  13. Re:Work around? by Osty · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all, the Intarnet was designed to route pr0n around a nuclear war--it has special tubes for that!

    Fallopian tubes?

  14. Re:The inevietable obligatory question. by kalpaha · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok, based on some comments to my post, I was too quick to judge. The video is an educational video! Boy, don't I feel silly now. Just goes to show, never judge a book by it's cover.

  15. Re:The inevietable obligatory question. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    >I find it strange that the video is considered as a "sex" video.

    You obviously watch too much porn.

    They are having sex. Just because there's no close up of penetration, don't mean it ain't happening. You kids today are spoiled, what with your internets and your bittorrents... back in my day, we used to walk ten miles up the hill backwards in the snow, just to catch a peek at a bra in the Sears catalog, and it would give us stroking material for a week.

  16. Re:Is it even possible for YouTube to comply? by bky1701 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Welcome to celebrity, Daniela--your privacy is now forfeit.
    Could have been worse, it could have been flying penises on second life.
  17. Re:The inevietable obligatory question. (WHY?) by wolrahnaes · · Score: 3, Funny

    im guessing because Brazil already has a bad reputation for pornography. A media starlet whos supposed to be representative of it only encourages brazilian women to continue their slutty ways which also gives off a bad perception to the outside world. Wait....slutty women cause a BAD perception? I don't follow...
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  18. Re:Is this really You-tubes fault by mgabrys_sf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spelling might be a solution.

  19. Re:Work around? by kennygraham · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all, the Intarnet was designed to route pr0n around a nuclear war--it has special tubes for that!

    Fallopian tubes?

    only people on slashdot need a wikipedia link to know what fallopian tubes are. after all, they're somewhat related to sex.
  20. Re:The inevietable obligatory question. (WHY?) by bestiarosa · · Score: 3, Funny

    encourages brazilian women to continue their slutty ways In fact, my Brazilian 89-year-old grandmother still likes to act in pr0n movies. Besides, it is widely known /all/ Brazilian women are sluts.

    One should think before posting.
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  21. Re:What, this video? by Xymor · · Score: 3, Funny

    What have we become my friends. The day is here where the law punishes a site for having porn, and the internets as we know it dies...

    I hope our children will forgive us, for leaving them a porn-less internets.

  22. Re:What, this video? by scottv67 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now, they will have to block Google too.

    No one (except Chuck Norris) can block teh Google!

  23. in other news... by fmobus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Brazilian IT industry show a growth of 20% in production, as its main source of procrastination is put offline by court order.