We at MediaPost aren't the only ones who've give the matter our professional scrutiny. Information
Week also looked at the vid and concluded that Cicarelli has only herself to blame for this mess, and that YouTube shouldn't be obliged to do anything more to help her out. In this day and age,
every little thing celebrities do in public is caught on film, so why is a Brazilian supermodel surprised that someone filmed her having sex in the waters of a very public beach?
At this point, the video can be found nearly everywhere but YouTube, but Cicarelli's lawyers are still targeting the Google site in their lawsuit. Regardless of its outcome, the video will always be on the Web somewhere, so punishing YouTube is useless. Sites like YouTube, MySpace, Blogger and Facebook offer too many opportunities for free speech to be responsible for screening user content in advance.