Brazil Wants YouTube to Remove Sex Video or Shut Down

Sure Google and the Brazilian legal system have had their rifts in the past, but this one takes the cake.

Daniela Cicarelli, model, opportunist and ex-wife of Ronaldo has sued YouTube (now owned by Google) over a very popular sex video which was posted of her and her boyfriend which was illegally uploaded to YouTube.

In an example of how influential the celebrities and uber-rich are in an uber-chic online Brasil, Cicarelli’s lawsuit has made it to the top of the Brazilian courts and there is now a court order for YouTube to remove the videos, or shut down its access in Brazil.

Brazil of course is Google’s cornerstone of South America and the driving force behind Orkut.

From Reuters:

A Brazilian court ordered the popular video sharing service YouTube, a unit of Internet search provider Google Inc., to be shut down until it removes a celebrity sex video from its site, a judicial clerk said on Thursday.

Cicarelli and boyfriend Tato Malzoni filed to force YouTube to take the video down and demanded $116,000 in damages for each day the video remains up. Some copies of the video have been taken off the site but users have reposted it.