YouTube Back in Brazil, Sans Steamy Video

Brazil has lifted the ban on video sharing site, YouTube.com, after a Brazilian court reversed its decision to block the site in the country. The Brazilian court had previously asked all internet service providers to block YouTube, after famous Brazilian model Daniela Cicarelli's sex video was posted on the site . The judge had demanded that the site be blocked off until the objectionable video was pulled down.

Judge Enio Santarelli Zulianio has now revised his ruling and allow internet service providers to reestablish access to the site, but only on the condition that YouTube permanently removes the particular sex video, which was the most viewed video in Brazil for days last year. However, technology experts say that getting rid of the video entirely, is difficult because users can repost it under different titles, which may be tough to track down.

Cicarelli and boyfriend Renato Malzoni, had filed a lawsuit last year, to force YouTube to take the video down and demanded $116,000 in damages for each day the video remained. The case dragged on for several months so Malzoni filed a third suit in December requesting that YouTube be shut down as long as the video is available to users.

Mazooki!.com Aims to be Asian YouTube

New free video sharing site, Mazooki.com, is the first of its kind, to be tailored for Asian users, offering a user-generated online video library.

Asian Internet users may access videos posted on Mazooki! share them, and even embed them onto their own websites without a membership. The site bans any pornographic or hate-oriented videos, and offers an interactive flagging system, to have questionable content removed.

Mazooki! offers exclusive channels for Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Asians Abroad, and other users. In addition, the site has joined the Asian Fanatics forum, one of the largest Asian communities on the Web, with over 125,000 members, in a contract to provide a Mazooki! community for site users.