YouTube.com being sued by utube.com - GoFuckYourself.com

redguy · 11-02-2006, 03:11 AM

Who wouldn't kill to own utube.com - 68 million "hits" in August. And these fuckers are suing over it

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A firm selling machinery to make tubes and pipes has sued internet sensation YouTube - saying the video-sharing site causes havoc at its own business.

Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment said its own website - Utube.com - had to be moved five times after millions of inadvertent hits made it crash.

The Ohio-based firm has now filed a claim in the US district court.

It says it wants YouTube to stop operating or alternatively pay for it to create a new web domain.

'There first'

Universal Tube said the cost of hosting its site had grown significantly in the last two months, and claims that it had lost business because customers have had trouble accessing its site.

In August, the company, founded in 1985, got 68 million hits on its site which eventually crashed.

"We were there first by 10 years," Universal Tube's president Ralph Girkins told the Associated Press news agency.

"We've had to move our site five times in an effort to stay ahead of the YouTube.com visitors."

YouTube, launched in February 2005, has grown quickly into one of the most popular websites on the internet.

It has 100 million videos viewed every day and an estimated 72 million individual visitors each month.

Last month it was bought by Google for $1.65bn (£883m) in shares.

It has more than 60 staff including co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.

YouTube was unavailable for comment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6108502.stm

loster · 11-02-2006, 03:24 AM

LoL..saw that. Our world is whacked.

$5 submissions · 11-02-2006, 03:26 AM

Even more publicity

Paul Markham · 11-02-2006, 03:31 AM

I'm on the phone to these guys telling them to stinck in a redirect to my site.

tenderobject · 11-02-2006, 03:32 AM

oh oh thats funny. why didn't they sue youtube last august?

JFK · 11-02-2006, 03:35 AM

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Originally Posted by tenderobject

oh oh thats funny. why didn't they sue youtube last august?

I guess they wanted to see what the trafic would do for them

toddy1999 · 11-02-2006, 03:36 AM

crazy world indeed

Dirty Dane · 11-02-2006, 03:37 AM

LOL why dont they take the opportunity to make some money out of it instead

JJonesGrind · 11-02-2006, 03:39 AM

do they actually think they're going to make YouTube stop operating?

redguy · 11-02-2006, 03:42 AM

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Originally Posted by tenderobject

oh oh thats funny. why didn't they sue youtube last august?

did they have Google's billions in August?

suicidemessiah · 11-02-2006, 03:43 AM

publicity

redguy · 11-02-2006, 03:44 AM

fuck it, just emailed them and offered to take utube.com off their hands :lol:

$5 submissions · 11-02-2006, 03:46 AM

I mean, how hard could it be for them to write some text on video hosting and slap an ADSENSE ad on it?

Either that or have Webmasterlabor.Com write it....... (pimp style) :D

polish_aristocrat · 11-02-2006, 03:54 AM

they could park the name and don't work a single day anymore in their lives

rowan · 11-02-2006, 04:53 AM

68 million hits sounds like a lot but can it be monetized? If you're making $1 CPM then that's only $68k... a company with 60 employees would have a lot more turnover than that...

(I don't even know if $1 CPM is realistic these days

)

polish_aristocrat · 11-02-2006, 04:58 AM

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Originally Posted by rowan

68 million hits sounds like a lot but can it be monetized? If you're making $1 CPM then that's only $68k... a company with 60 employees would have a lot more turnover than that...

(I don't even know if $1 CPM is realistic these days

)

Youtube has 60 emploeyees, not Utube

rowan · 11-02-2006, 05:03 AM

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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat

Youtube has 60 emploeyees, not Utube

Whoops, just realised that...

Well, there's 3 unique names on the contact page

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11-02-2006, 03:46 AM	#13
$5 submissions I help you SUCCEED Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The Pearl of the Orient Seas Posts: 32,195	I mean, how hard could it be for them to write some text on video hosting and slap an ADSENSE ad on it? Either that or have Webmasterlabor.Com write it....... (pimp style) :D __________________ Need a NON-ADULT income stream? We build your YOUTUBE CHANNEL for only $20 per video! For Hire: $3/hour or $400 per month Marketing Specialist Virtual Assistants

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rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	68 million hits sounds like a lot but can it be monetized? If you're making $1 CPM then that's only $68k... a company with 60 employees would have a lot more turnover than that... (I don't even know if $1 CPM is realistic these days )