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.'"

Comments

Unjustified slippery slope is weak.

[Kadin2048]

I fail to see why the terrorist rendition flights have any link to copyright infringement cases. If you can provide any evidence of the U.S. using such tactics against copyright infringers, I'd be interested.

The "slippery slope" is a very weak argument. It's only logically applicable in situations where doing action A makes actions B, C, and D more likely. If you can't prove that doing A makes B more likely to occur in some direct way, then it's a fallacy.

Although I'm generally the first to tell you that the average American is probably fat, lazy, and ignorant, they are not as completely devoid of thought as seems sometimes to be assumed in some circles. The average red-state American, on the whole, seems not to have a problem with the government torturing terrorist suspects, or any sort of radical Islamists for that matter. However, despite what you might think of that stance, it doesn't say anything about their opinions of the government torturing somebody for downloading MP3s -- which is probably a subject far more near and dear to said American's heart, because while they'll probably never read a Koran, they probably have downloaded (or their son/daughter/nephew has downloaded) their share of MP3s. The two activities (and more importantly, the would-be perpetrators of each activity) are seen as being quite different in kind, and I can pretty much guarantee that there's little stomach for the CIA hauling off downloaders in the middle of the night.

You might as well say that people who support the death penalty are going to green-light public hangings of jaywalkers. It's a ridiculous exaggeration, and frankly it's intellectually dishonest and prevents rational and meaningful discussion of the actual situation, by replacing fact with hyperbole.

Or were you just trolling for mod points?