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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.'"
Working link? :p
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It is a problem with people accessing through Brasil Telecom's network (one of the brazilian telcos). Since their DNS aren't recursive I couldn't check if this a DNS problem or a network problem.
I'm from Brazil and it's working ver fine (my IP is 201.92.3.130).
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If you look at all the crap that the french and other countries have done, is not so much to really block them, but to fine them. They are all looking to hit the deep pockets of Google.
All in all, I seriously doubt that even one judge thinks that Google has done wrong on any of these cases.
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This is a different thing. In your case we have one company suing another because the violating company sells copyrighted material online. Whether you agree with this or not, what is important is that both the US and Russia have copyright laws and a treaty saying that they will both enforce those laws.
In this case, with the sex on the beach, we have Brazil telling a foreign company that they can't post videos online when there is no treaty governing this material between Brazil and the US (nor can there be because of the very broad interpretation of the 1st amendment to the US Constitution). If the US agreed to a treaty with Brazil that you couldn't post videos of celebrities having sex on a beach (and it was somehow found constitutional) then this case would be internationally valid. The only thing that this case is showing is that Brazil feels that it has the right to benefit from foreign companies and at the same time unilaterally censor them. While Brazil certainly has the sovereign right to enforce its own laws, I certainly hope that IT companies will think twice before investing in Brazil in the future.
Here in Brasil we've got the crappiest Tv on the face of earth. For example there is a Mexican show called "Chaves" that is on air for more then a decade. And one of the latest most watched TV shows is Woody Woodpecker. This video is on the net for months and nothing was done. Maybe it is the tv channels trying to ban all the alternatives. And by the way, I can still watch YouTube.
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The windfall comes for companies that see their stock go up because they stand to win the lawsuit, even though they won't ever get the payoff. That's the fault of stupid investors. The lawyers aren't tricking organizations such as the RIAA into sueing, the RIAA member corps. are bragging about the potential gains from the lawsuits in their prospecti, boasting about how much their IP is worth, and the real trickery is happening in the stock market.
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When a sex video of a media starlet (singer) from my country was found on the net, people just laughed at her and watched lustingly. She tried to sue the local news site that propagated the link, but even that failed. To attempt to censor the Internet, and a gigantic site as youtube no loss for the sake of the questionable reputation of some TV hostess has really no excuse. I hope Brazilians are outraged at this court decision...
Just to add a internal opnion... In my case youtube IS blocked and is not at a DNS level It is blocked far below... using http://208.65.153.253/ wont work... Just proxys would help... Its been a long time I am shamed of this country.. its a huge joke... Talking about it.. trying to find solutions.. forget it!! Just laugh at it.. This country is proof that, in "dumb" nations, democracy sucks! The people are so badly educated that their votes are manipulated too easily! Hence.. there is no solution to this "joke"
None of this is necessary. The understanding of what makes for good education in both countries excels that of almost any other nation on Earth. The time spent in education in both nations is fantastic. Both have a thorough understanding of the dire consequences of failing - first-hand and in recent times. Both have sufficient surplus cash to invest in bringing the average skills and awareness of their citizens to levels far above the current top 1%, and could do so very easily.
As far as the video is concerned, the entire mess is caused BY a lack of education. If the Americans (and British) had better social education, then you'd get fewer paparazzi and fewer abuses of privacy. There simply wouldn't be the demand for scandal. The demand only exists because there are enough people too brain-dead to realize they only want the scandal because they've been told to. If the Brazilians had better education, they'd take better care of their privacy, wouldn't resort to stupid and pointless measures, and wouldn't go around obnoxiously pretending to do something useful when all they're really doing is creating far more interest than would otherwise have existed.
Politicians spend so much money on bribes and control - can't they afford just a little on acquiring a little knowledge? (Yeah, yeah, I know, they're acquiring as little as they can.)
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