YouTube Forced To Shut Down In Brazil

Reuters reports that a Brazilian court has ordered YouTube to be shut down due to not preventing a celebrity sex video from being posted time and time again. Daniela Cicarelli and company sued YouTube after being notified that a video of her and her boyfriend having sex on a beach was posted and reposted on YouTube. This judgment might be impossible to enforce outside of the US, the article says.

On a related note, Google does not have good relations with Brazil, just start here and click through all of Google’s woes with Orkut and Brazil.

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