Kid Rock Blocks Sex Video

A federal judge in Detroit told an Internet Porn website in California that it can't show a preview clip from a Kid Rock Sex Tape.

U.S. District Judge John Feikens signed the temporary restraining order Tuesday, an hour after Kid Rock's lawyers filed a lawsuit against World Wide Red Light District and its president, David Joseph. The order will remain in effect until a court hearing Friday - though the clip had already been removed voluntarily by the company last week.

"We don't deny the authenticity of the tape," Kid Rock's lawyer, William Horton of Troy, said Tuesday after obtaining the restraining order. "But they're using this without his permission to drive the sales of their other products.

In an affidavit accompanying the lawsuit, Kid Rock, who was born Robert Ritchie, said Stapp shot the video in December 1999 on a concert bus near Miami. At the time, Stapp was the lead singer of Creed, a popular 1990s rock group that split up in 2004.

"This was a private video and was not intended for public display," Ritchie said in the suit filing. "It was explicitly understood that the video would remain at all times the private property of Mr. Stapp and would not be displayed or exhibited to the public."

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