uTube sues YouTube

[regic]

Universal Tube, a company that sells pipe making machinery, has embarked on a lawsuit against YouTube, claiming that the video sharing site has disrupted its business thanks to the similarity in the two company's web addresses.

Universal Tube's website resides at www.utube.com, and it seems that plenty of wannabe YouTubers, fluent in text-speak, but less adept at typing out full words, are surfing their way over to the Universal Tube site by accident.

In the suit, Universal Tube alleges that its traffic has soared from around 1,500 hits in a month to over two million because of vast numbers of visitors looking for "lewd and other disgusting video"...

full article: http://www.theregister.com/2006/11/02/pipes_youtube/

[thentavius]

and it seems that plenty of wannabe YouTubers, fluent in text-speak, but less adept at typing out full words, are surfing their way over to the Universal Tube site by accident

;D  ;D

[FiberGuy]

They should just put up Google adwords on their home page that are video related... I bet they'd make a killing!

[mandy]

Update:

The judge hearing the case just dismissed a number of uTube's complaints, but also refused to grant YouTube's motion to dismiss the entire suit. The judge also gave uTube permission to amend its complaint to see if it can revive any of the dismissed causes of action.

Specifically, the court said that uTube didn't have a case for trespass to chattels, since some physical contact with an object must be involved for such a claim to go forward. Domain names aren't physical objects, the court argued, and uTube used a third-party hosting service, so it couldn't claim ownership in the computer equipment that crashed as a result of the influx of visitors...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/12/...ube_alive/

[regic]

[quote author=FiberGuy link=topic=5727.msg30527#msg30527 date=1162492226]
They should just put up Google adwords on their home page that are video related... I bet they'd make a killing!



[/quote]

They took your advice

In true Midwestern fashion, the company made the best of a bad situation by adding a ringtone search engine to the site, as well as links to dating, insurance and gambling sites. These new features now pull in $1,000 a day or more

[FiberGuy]

Fiberguy = internet marketing consultant



Too funny... maybe they're TulipTools lurkers???   :-*

ETA:

utube management:  That will be $4700.00 in consulting fees, or a lifetime one-way link to my web site on your home page.