I see the point of the gripe and think it's a very big cause for distress, but I do NOT see ANY point in a lawsuit that holds youtube responsible for it. It's not like youtube asked people to not know how to spell their site name and I'm certain there was no intent.Originally posted by: dxkj
I don't see why so many don't think this makes sense... especially since they are pronounced the same.
If they had the servers and bandwidth to handle it, I still think it would stand up in court.
Dear Australian Police:Originally posted by: Aflac
"We have even been contacted by police in Australia accusing us of having child pornography on our Web site. I resent this personally and this confusion is hurting our business."
Priceless.
LOL look at Exhibit 1.Originally posted by: Mark R
Did anyone actually read the formal legal complaint to the court by utube.com?
Friggin hilarious. You don't often get to see stuff like tampon fetishes, corpse defilement, etc. in legal documents.
Exhibit 1 is a message left by one visitor who asks ?WHERE THE .... ARE ALL
THE VIDEOS??? 1.5 BILLION FOR THIS PIECE OE .... WEBSITE? GOOGLE GOT
TAKEN!?[q/]
probably $1.6bn. a modest (and coincidental) sum for damages.Originally posted by: Jeff7
Dear Australian Police:Originally posted by: Aflac
"We have even been contacted by police in Australia accusing us of having child pornography on our Web site. I resent this personally and this confusion is hurting our business."
Priceless.
Check spelling first, then investigate.
No figures are given in the article as to how much money that Universal Tube is asking for to settle any of its grievances.
Probably the fast and dirty solution to make some money back from all the bandwidth usageOriginally posted by: Umberger
look at the utube website. they have some of those crappy search headers full of ringtone adds, personals, etc... what kind of respectable corporate website is that? they're full of ******.