Formula one boss Max Mosley today failed to get a high court injunction preventing the News of the World from putting a 90-second videoclip showing him and five prostitutes on its website.

The paper wasted no time, putting the video back on its site shortly after today's high court ruling and challenging Mosley to answer a series of questions about its allegations.

Last week, the tabloid removed a video of Mosley - the son of British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley - from its website, pending a ruling on the high court injunction banning the tabloid from showing images from the clip.

Mr Justice Eady, in the high court in London, said the events, which were chronicled in the newspaper last month under the headline "F1 boss has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers", had received massive worldwide coverage, both in newspapers and online.

Anyone who wished to access the footage could easily do so, and there was no point in barring the News of the World from showing what was already available, he added.

The judge said: "I have come to the conclusion that the material is so widely accessible that an order in the terms sought would make very little practical difference.

"One may express this conclusion either by saying that Mr Mosley no longer has any reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of this now widely familiar material or that, even if he has, it has entered the public domain to the extent that there is, in practical terms, no longer anything which the law can protect. The dam has effectively burst.

"I have, with some reluctance, come to the conclusion that although this material is intrusive and demeaning, and despite the fact that there is no legitimate public interest in its further publication, the granting of an order against this respondent at the present juncture would merely be a futile gesture."

Tom Crone, the News Group Newspapers legal manager, said: "Max Mosley's attempt to suppress the News of the World's video of his sordid activities has failed. The film will be placed back on the News of the World website forthwith.

"As the judge acknowledged, he was able to see only 'very brief extracts' - less than two minutes - of the very much longer video. Had he seen it in its entirety, we are confident that he could not fail to recognise the Nazi connotation which Mr Mosley so strenuously denies."

Crone added that the paper had six questions about the video for Mosley, who claims it does not have Nazi connotations.

"1. Why are German military uniforms worn? 2. Why does he issue orders and threats in German to women who cannot speak German? 3. Why does he deliver and count out beatings in German to women who cannot understand German? 4. Why does he put on a German accent when speaking English?," he said.

"5. Why are the victims of these beatings in German made to put on sinister striped uniforms? 6. Why the head lice inspections, the forced shaving of body hair and the sinister references to inmates being housed in 'facilities'? We look forward to Mr Mosley's answers to all these questions," Crone added.

Mosley, who was not in court, is also pursuing a claim for breach of privacy against News Group Newspapers, with a five-day trial expected in July. He has recruited former News of the World editor Phil Hall to advise on PR matters.

The News of the World has splashed with details of Mosley's meeting with five prostitutes in London for the past two Sundays and said it would be sending videos of his visit to a Chelsea flat to the FIA, formula one's governing body, of which he is president.

Steeles, the law firm acting for Mosley, who is under pressure to step down as president of the FIA, applied for the injunction at a hearing on Friday.

"The News of the World stands by its story and will vigorously defend all legal action from Mr Mosley," a spokeswoman for the paper said on Monday.

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