p2pnet news | Freedom:- A new Brazilian YouTube sex video scandal threatens to close down every WordPress blog in the country.

The home-made porno flick is implicated in a court order against a specific WordPress blog, but the fate of every Brazilian WP site hinges on it.

According to Abranet [Brazilian Association of Internet Service Providers], for the court order to be implemented, the entire wordpress.com domain would have to be shut down, says Global Voices, going on >>>

Judge Jorge Alberto Araujo gives a little of the supposed story’s background, which he has called YouTubeGate:

The case is as follows: a very silly girl lets her boyfriend film/photograph her shamelessly having sex, she fights with the said boyfriend (who has kept the records), betraying him with another guy. And he, disgusted, publishes the spicy and intimate scenes on YouTube. [O caso é o seguinte: uma menina muito burra se deixa filmar/fotografar pelo namorado fazendo sexo despudoradamente, briga com o namorado (que está na posse da gravação), não raro traindo-o com outro. e este, indignado publica no YouTube as cenas picantes e íntimas.]

In January 2006, a Brazilian court ordered YouTube to close down until it removed a “celebrity sex video” featuring model and ex-wife of soccer player Ronaldo, Daniela Cicarelli, notes the story.

YouTube was briefly banned, but following protests from thousands of users and bloggers who launched an email campaign in protest, Cicarelli she pulled out of the lawsuit and YouTube was reinstated, according to Global Voices, which adds:

“Brazil is not the first country to face such a problem.

“In August last year, Turkey faced a similar situation and Wordpress has in fact been blocked and remains inaccessible in that country.”

Slashdot it!

Global Voices – Brazil: Bloggers united against Wordpress ban, April 12, 2008
celebrity sex video – YouTube deletes Cicarelli flic, January 5, 2007

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