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    UTube sues YouTube

    Oh, the humanity!
    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.
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    Email them asking them where all the videos have gone hehe
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    I suppose they have a point, and I guess they had to wait until YouTube was worth something before hitting them with a lawsuit.

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    LOL, i love how they blame youtube for their users inability to type the URL correctly.

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    They're fools to be honest.

    Slap some cleverly placed ads on there, along with some sort of disclaimer saying "this isn't YouTube" and the ad revenue would probably allow them to pay the bandwidth bill and earn them a little bit more money/exposure.
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    Very true.

    Then put a couple of badly filmed overly compressed video of their products on there and see how many people actually watch them. Thousands i bet

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    you can see this being thrown out of court or google offering them some hosting to keep em quiet, it is ridiculous though

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    Woops

    Nice lot of free publicity though...

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    lol, dont see why they are complaining

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    Anyone cross posted the story on slashdot yet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stoo View Post
    Anyone cross posted the story on slashdot yet?

    *evil snigger*
    *snigger*

    Well I got that anyway
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    ewetube.com should be getting worried as well then.

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