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Legal Issues

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 Eventually, following quite an uproar, the judge rescinded the ban, but the case went on.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. Jun 28th, 2007 @ 10:54am

    I'm moving to

    by Ajax 4Hire

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  2. Jun 28th, 2007 @ 10:55am

    Re: I'm moving to Brazil

    by Ajax 4Hire

    so excited, I hit the enter key prematurely.

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  3. Jun 28th, 2007 @ 11:31am

    wow

    by Anonymous Coward

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

    he's had that

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  4. Jun 28th, 2007 @ 11:37am

    Yeah, right.

    by The infamous Joe

    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. Jun 28th, 2007 @ 11:46am

    Honestly

    by J

    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. Jun 28th, 2007 @ 3:26pm

    maybe she wants the attention...

    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. Jun 29th, 2007 @ 5:48am

    What really happened is...

    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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