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Brazilian court orders YouTube blocked over racy supermodel video
Posted: 05 January 2007 1228 hrs

 
 
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SAO PAULO: A Brazilian court has ordered the YouTube website blocked for failing to withdraw a compromising video of supermodel Daniela Cicarelli on a beach in Spain, a local newspaper reported Thursday.

The ex-wife of Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo was filmed by a paparazzi at a beach in Cadiz smooching and writhing among the waves with another Brazilian, Renato Malzoni.

The couple sued Globo Organizations, which runs several websites, IG and YouTube for posting the video. Globo and IG withdrew the video.

"YouTube was the only company that did not comply with the court order," said the couple's lawyer, Rubens Decoussau.

A Brazilian official told O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper that it would be technically "impractical" to block YouTube from its Brazilian customers.

A check of YouTube's site in the United States on Thursday revealed that the steamy video clip remained listed in the search index but "has been removed due to terms of use violation."

A spokeswoman for the Silicon Valley-based video-sharing website told AFP "we are going to decline to comment" when asked about the situation.

However, the nearly five-minute video could be viewed on video-sharing services operated by California Internet search engines Yahoo and Google, which bought YouTube last year in a 1.65 billion dollar stock deal. - AFP/st

 

 



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