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It all started when a video depicting Brazilian supermodel Daniela Cicarelli and her boyfriend, banker Renato Malzoni having sex on a beach (in the literal sense) showed up on YouTube. The couple sued the website in September and won an injunction for the video's removal, but news of the court case only made the steamy clip all the more popular among YouTube viewers. A Brazilian judge then issued a ruling that YouTube must remove all traces of the clip, and the internet video service has since attempted to comply by stomping out copies like wildfire. But, as CNN reports, the video simply won't die, and instead keeps popping up under varying titles. Meanwhile, the judge's ban wasn't exclusive to YouTube; he also stipulated that any fixed-line telephone operators providing service to Internet providers must participate in the ban until YouTube could prove that the clip was no longer available on its site. Brasil Telecom SA, Brazil's second largest fixed-line operator, responded by prohibiting access to YouTube across a wide swath of the country from Brasilia to the Amazon, though the site still worked in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where Internet use is reportedly heaviest. A three-judge panel is scheduled to review the case and could fine YouTube up to $119,000 a day for each day that it fails to stay Cicarelli-and-Malzoni free, according to the New York Post. That's some pretty high incentive to keep trolling those archives and hitting "Erase" at the sight of any sexy oceanside antics.
