(6 January 2007 6:00 pm)

MUMBAI: A Brazilian judge has ordered video sharing site YouTube to find a way to stop Brazilians from viewing steamy footage of supermodel Daniela Cicarelli and her boyfriend.

Media reports state that the clip still appears periodically on YouTube, prompting the expanded order from Sao Paulo state Supreme Court Justice Enio Santarelli Zulian. Cicarelli, a model and ex-wife of footballer Ronaldo, sued YouTube after a video of her apparently having sex in shallow water on a beach with her boyfriend was posted to the site. For days it was the most viewed video in Brazil.

It was way back in September that YouTube was ordered in September to remove video showing Cicarelli and Brazilian banker Renato Malzoni in intimate scenes along a beach near the Spanish city of Cadiz.

The court says that YouTube must find a way to use filters so the clip stops popping up in Brazil on the site owned by Google. The case now goes automatically to a three-member panel of judges who will decide whether to make the order permanent and whether to fine YouTube as much as $119,000 for each day that the video was viewable state reports.