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+<img border="0" alt="Youtube_logo_3" title="Youtube_logo_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/youtube_logo_3.png" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;" />A Brazilian baby went flying out the window with the bath water yesterday when a judge ordered Google to [shut down YouTube][1] until the site removes a celebrity sex video.
+The video in question shows Brazilian model and celebrity Daniela Cicarelli having sex with her boyfriend on a beach in Brazil. Cicarelli's boyfriend Tato Malzoni filed a suit in Brazilian court seeking $116,000 in damages *per day* that the video is up on YouTube.
+The Reuters article cites legal experts who say enforcing the Brazilian judge's ruling "could be difficult ... in the United States, where YouTube is based."
+While many of the copies of the video have reportedly been removed on YouTube, rumor has it users keep posting new ones. The video was the top viewed movie in Brazil for several days.
+Aside from the fact that asking YouTube to shut down is, well, somewhat ludicrous and unlikely to happen, the real question is, what difference would it make? If the video has already been widely viewed in Brazil, the only thing the judge's decision does it make it a world wide news item which in turn further fans the flames.
+Perhaps Paris Hilton needs to open some sort of how-to-handle-your-sex-video-scandal clinic. 
+Just for the record, as sex videos go, this one is pretty tame. Not that I would know, that's just the word on the street.
+And here we always thought everyone in Brazil was having sex on the beach and no cared. I hope these plane tickets are refundable...
+[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-04T133629Z_01_N04473895_RTRUKOC_0_US-GOOGLE-BRAZIL.xml&src=rss "Brazil court orders YouTube shut on celeb sex video"
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