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YouTube Blocked in Brazil

Posted by Zonk on from the down-with-love dept.

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

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. 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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    One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
  3. 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?

  4. 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.