YouTube Blocked in Brazil

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Posted by Zonk on Saturday January 6, 2007 @03:47PM 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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YouTube by Anonymous Coward · 2007-01-06 15:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
1. Re:YouTube by Anonymous Coward · 2007-01-06 16:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Judging by the number of times this has been posted, Stephen King has died thousands of times over the past 6 or 7 years... Stop already, will you?
2. Re:YouTube by Chimera512 · 2007-01-06 16:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  what? I've never read his work but I hadn't heard this and I can't dig up an actual new item on this...are ACs on /. really that far ahead of the curve? can anyone confirm this?
Re:Brazil who??? by iminplaya · 2007-01-06 16:13 · Score: 1, Offtopic

What do they export?

Nigger Toes

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Not the crappiest - remember Italy by Werrismys · 2007-01-06 19:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

While on vacation in Italy I was constantly amazed by their TV. So. Bad.

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Re:As a brazillian (luckily ouside the country) by Guppy06 · 2007-01-07 02:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"analphabet"

The English word you're looking for is "illiterate."

Sorry, just took me a second or two to realize what you were trying to say.