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by Mike Masnick





After Banning Entire Site, Brazilian Court Sides With YouTube; Tells Model To Pay Up

from the talk-about-an-about-face dept

Remember when a judge in Brazil banned the entire YouTube over a video of a famous Brazilian model having sex on the beach? Eventually, following quite an uproar, the judge rescinded the ban, but the case went on. Boing Boing is now reporting that the judge hasn't just sided with YouTube, but is ordering the model to pay Google and other video hosting companies as compensation for the lawsuit. Of course, when the ban first was making the news, the model had said that she wasn't so concerned about the video, but that it was her boyfriend in the video who didn't like it. Wonder which one of them will pay the fine?

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  1. I'm moving to

    by Ajax 4Hire - Jun 28th, 2007 @ 10:54am

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  2. Re: I'm moving to Brazil

    by Ajax 4Hire - Jun 28th, 2007 @ 10:55am

    so excited, I hit the enter key prematurely.

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  3. wow

    by Anonymous Coward - Jun 28th, 2007 @ 11:31am

    I don't think her boyfriend will care...

    he's had that

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  4. Yeah, right.

    by The infamous Joe - Jun 28th, 2007 @ 11:37am

    I know if there was video proof of me having sex with a Brazilian model I'd *definitely* not want that to leak out.

    /sarcasm.

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  5. Honestly

    by J - Jun 28th, 2007 @ 11:46am

    If you don't want people to see you doing "it", don't do "it" at the beach ...

    Whatever "it" means ...

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  6. maybe she wants the attention...

    by myspace collector - Jun 28th, 2007 @ 3:26pm

    a lot of girls love that sort of attention. Similar to many of the fine ladies on myspace. I'm a collector, see my site: www.myspacecollector.com

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  7. What really happened is...

    by Alexandre Barbosa - Jun 29th, 2007 @ 5:48am

    Acording to Brazilian law, the part that looses the lawsuit has to pay all legal expenses, like Google´s lawyer. The process also involved Globo, a major news company and the iG web portal, because of them reproducing pictures and links to copies of the video on YouTube.

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