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**LeeD** · 11-02-2006, 08:11 AM

TOLEDO, Ohio - A company that shut down its Web site because it was overwhelmed by millions of people looking for YouTube has sued the online video-sharing portal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061101/...tube_vs__utube

**Fredto** · 11-02-2006, 08:41 AM

That's a funny story

The smartest thing to do for Universal Tube would be to auction the domain name on eBay (that should fetch quite a price), or sell it to Google, and buy a new one.

I don't think you can blame the company that used to run YouTube for having stupid users that can't type properly (sorry, I don't mean to offend any people that have trouble spelling ;p).

**MonkeyBiz** · 11-02-2006, 11:47 AM

Utube should get some form of compensation for the excess useless traffic. Google has deep pockets.

**briansol** · 11-02-2006, 01:26 PM

utube should simply dump a ton of ads an popups on their domain and move their real site to universaltube.com or something :P

**Fredto** · 11-02-2006, 11:35 PM

Worldwebuser: And exactly how is it Google's fault? Or the company / people that used to own YouTube?

Explain that to me, I'm curious.

**MonkeyBiz** · 11-03-2006, 02:24 AM

Utube.com is down which means they are losing business. I'm not a lawyer but compensation is due. Google has so much money it would be a nice PR move to donote extra servers to utube to help cover the extra bandwith consumption.

Google should have taken this into account b4 buying youtube.

**Next** · 11-03-2006, 12:24 PM

No it's not their fault at all because people can't spell. Wanting to sue and get money for such stupidity is just being greedy.

Next you will say that people can sue Digg for taking their website offline too.

The judge will laugh and throw the case out.

**MonkeyBiz** · 11-03-2006, 12:26 PM

Considering google spent so much money on youtube would it really hurt to throw in an extra million or so to help cover utube's additional server costs?

**imported_feros** · 11-03-2006, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Worldwebuser

Considering google spent so much money on youtube would it really hurt to throw in an extra million or so to help cover utube's additional server costs?

Would it hurt? No. Will they do it? Hell no. Corporations just don't "throw in an extra million" to help anybody ... what world do you live in?

This lawsuit is ridiculous. YouTube never marketed themselves as "UTube.com" or promoted users to go there in any way. It's not their responsibility.

**Hobbit** · 11-03-2006, 02:07 PM

Time to purchase new text links.

**xtrafile** · 11-03-2006, 07:57 PM

Wow..
I guess I should also look for domains that people will probably type in :P
That's a cool story though

**imported_Cory** · 11-05-2006, 06:40 PM

Well i would like the unqiues

**smartweb** · 11-05-2006, 09:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Next

No it's not their fault at all because people can't spell. Wanting to sue and get money for such stupidity is just being greedy.

Next you will say that people can sue Digg for taking their website offline too.

The judge will laugh and throw the case out.

I agree, that this is not their fault. In my opinion, they should have taken advantage of this opportunity.