Oh god, I forgot to select "plain old text".

> And, btw, what is the FBI doing going after a brazilian national anyway? Isn't that slightly out of their jurisdiction?

From TFA: "According to the report, the fed only requested help from USA in early 2009, after experts from the National Institute of Criminology (INC) failed to decode the passwords on the hard drives."

It's badly translated, but "fed" is the Brazilian Federal Police and INC is a Brazilian institute.

> And, btw, what is the FBI doing going after a brazilian national anyway? Isn't that slightly out of their jurisdiction? From TFA: "According to the report, the fed only requested help from USA in early 2009, after experts from the National Institute of Criminology (INC) failed to decode the passwords on the hard drives." It's badly translated, but "fed" is the Brazilian Federal Police and INC is a Brazilian institute.

Article 20 of the proposed legislation (Google translated)

"The Internet service provider may only be liable for damages arising from content generated by third parties if it is notified by the victim and not take steps to, within the framework of their service and within reasonable time, make unavailable the content identified as infringing."

Why don't you whitelist the blocks from your region instead?
Banning Brazil is a stupid thing because:

a. The majority of spammers aren't using Brazilian IP's;
b. The majority of Brazilian IP's aren't being used by spammers, legitimate users will come and they should not be blocked.

Besides that's kind of a dick move, the US has been the top spam source for years and no one banned their IP ranges.

Perhaps Google could make a Summer of Code for the southern hemisphere too. I'd love to participate if it were in January.