YouTube Blocked in Brazil 387
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.'"
The inevietable obligatory question. (Score:3, Interesting)
It is not blocked! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Not so sure... (Score:3, Interesting)
Not really power (Score:3, Interesting)
All in all, I seriously doubt that even one judge thinks that Google has done wrong on any of these cases.
Re:Funny (Score:1, Interesting)
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.
Of course we're angry (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Is it even possible for YouTube to comply? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Funny (Score:3, Interesting)
when this happened in my country (cro)... (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Of course! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Work around? (Score:3, Interesting)
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.)