2007-06-06 10:52:40
"The popular video sharing site YouTube is now blocked in Brazil due to a local
court decision last Thursday. The site was ordered to block the uploaded sex
videos of Brazilian media starlet Daniela Cicarelli and, although it complied,
many users kept re-uploading it to the site. After the failure of YouTube to
keep the video off of the site, the domain was blocked nationwide at a DNS
level. Predictably, many Brazilians are annoyed and I've started to receive
even SPAMs protesting on this blocking. From the article: 'The case now goes
automatically to a three-member panel of judges who will decide whether to make
the order permanent and whether to fine YouTube as much as US$119,000
(euro91,000) for each day the video was viewable, said Rubens Decousseau
Tilkian.'"
An exercise in herding cats
Is an apt metaphor for this. My goodness, a well-known (sort of) "celebrity"
gets videotaped having sex and somehow the video makes itself public! Shocked,
shocked I am, that this would happen! You'd think that with so many of these
incidents in the past that they might become just a bit cautious. Really, how
hard is it to follow the simple ideas of:
a) Don't videotape yourself having sex.
b) If you do, invest in a safe. A very good one.
c) Don't have sex in public. No, really, people have cellphones now to shoot
footage of interesting things like that, besides the ever-popular video
cameras.
d) If you break up with someone, and you've taped yourselves having sex, get
the tapes before walking out!
Because once it's out, it's out. Court orders, forcing various sites to remove
it just don't work. All it does is add to the publicity. I'd be willing to bet
that within a week (if that) you'll see the video all over the binary groups,
P2P networks, bittorrent, and various pr0n sites. Blocking one site is simply
an attempt to bail out the Titanic with a bucket - nice try, but it won't work.