Youtube.com sued finally..

[Syringer]

But not by who you'd expect.

 

[Ika]

"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.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Syringer
But not by who you'd expect.

Well, he has a legitimate gripe.

 

[Skunkwourk]

I guess he doesn't like the free press.

reminded me of this

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Reminds me of Nissan.

 

[EarthwormJim]

How is that even a legitimate suite...

 

[akshatp]

This comes just weeks after YouTube gets bought by Google for 1.6bn. Timing is everything..

 

[silverpig]

This guy wants either youtube to change its name, or to have youtube pay for utube to set up a new corporate identity. Why not just ask youtube to pay for the added bandwidth + hosting upgrade? I mean, it's freaking google...

 

[Syringer]

But Google's lawyers >> Youtube's lawyers.

 

[DrPizza]

I've gotta sympathize with that company... They've got a good point.

 

[Firsttime]

Haha wasn't expecting that. The poor company, it would seem smarter just to ask for more servers or something to support the extra traffic, but I fail to see how Utube's argument will stand up in court.

 

[randay]

utube lol.

 

[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.

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Syringer
But not by who you'd expect.

Well, he has a legitimate gripe.

Except they didn't sue until AFTER Youtube cashed out $1.6Bill I'm sure it's a mere coincidence.

 

[Injury]

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.

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.

 

[Jeff7]

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.

Dear Australian Police:
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.

 

[herkulease]

I saw this coming, especially after this article that came out after the acquisition.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2563599

Its likely where Youtube name became widely known with people coming to see what's the deal with that google threw 1.65 billion at them.

 

[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.

 

[shabby]

Dont blame youtube.com, blame the 2 million people who cant spell you.

 

[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 ******.

 

[xtknight]

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.

LOL look at Exhibit 1.

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/]

 

[RapidSnail]

Why don't they change their domain to "universaltube.com"?

 

[MoPHo]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

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.

Dear Australian Police:
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 $1.6bn. a modest (and coincidental) sum for damages.

 

[doze]

Originally 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 ******.

Probably the fast and dirty solution to make some money back from all the bandwidth usage

 

[d3n]

Maybe Google should just host them and give them a nice cush spot at the top of the ad word listings. Everyone wins.