YouTube stung by $125,000 per day fine
Celeb video has cash register effect
By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 04 January 2007, 15:28
A SAO PAULO court ordered that YouTube remove a video featuring two
celebrities engaging in sex on a beach in Spain.
According to this Brazilian web site, YouTube was ordered to down
the vid, but the report said that was some time ago, and the court
ordered it to pay around $125,000 for each day it hadn't pulled
it.
That's now totted up to a hefty sum of money.
Brazilian court orders YouTube shutdownModel obtains
injunction over beach sex romp vid
By Lester Haines
Published Thursday 4th January 2007 15:20 GMT
A Brazilian court has ordered the closure of YouTube following the
site's failure to completely remove a video showing Ronaldo's
ex-missus and her new boyf indulging in a bit a of beach
rumpy-pumpy, Reuters reports.
Model Daniela Cicarelli sued YouTube after the offending film
proved a smash hit among Brazilian YouTubers. She and squeeze Tato
Malzoni last year "filed to force YouTube to take the video down
and demanded $116,000 in damages for each day the video remains
up". Although YouTube did indeed remove some copies, other users
reposted it and the whole sorry exposure dragged on for
months.
Finally, Cicarelli and Malzoni filed another suit in December
"requesting that YouTube be shut down as long as the video is
available to users". A Brazilian court agreed and a judicial clerk
today said that it had "ordered the popular video sharing service
... to be shut down until it removes a celebrity sex video from its
site".
This is likely to prove difficult to enforce, Reuters notes, since
YouTube is based the US. No-one from owner Google was available to
speak to the agency today.
In the interests of investigative journalism, and to save readers
the bother of going and tracking it down themselves, we selflessly
viewed the footage several times and can confirm it involves some
hot ice cream-sucking action followed by what appears to be a
semi-subaquatic Cicarelli riding Malzoni's visibly-armed torpedo.
Accordingly, we can confirm it's NSFW, should you fancy doing a bit
of investigative journalism yourselves.
who are the celebrities huh? 
Is it Fann
Wong?