YouTube being sued...

[TOhioLiberal]

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061101/BUSINESS03/611010438

YouTube named in suit by firm in Perrysburg

Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp., of Perrysburg, has sued YouTube Inc., a California Internet firm known for its popular video site on the Web, for damages.

The suit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Toledo, contends that confusion over the youtube.com Web name and the local firm's utube.com disrupted the local firm's business of selling pipe-making machinery globally.

The suit alleges that Mr. Girkins' firm's Web traffic went from 1,500 to more than 2 million hits a month because of visitors looking for "lewd and other disgusting video."

[SteppingRazor]

1. Oh brother...

another record for the Litigation Nation file.

When I read the thread title, I figured this would be about copyright infringement, not meritless greed

[Poll_Blind]

2. C'mon, you KNOW someone wound up buying a pipe-maker. n/t

PB

[MercutioATC]

3. It was only a matter of time...

...deep pockets tend to generate lawsuits.

I'll be very surprised if YouTube doesn't end up costing Google hundreds of millions of dollars.

[marions ghost]

4. what garbage

do they even have a case?

[sui generis]

5. oh well, if one loses vexatious litigation

against a billion dollar company, they can be sure that YouTube is indeed going to put them out of business, AND they'll be the BUTT of jokes on youtube.

It's almost like they predicted their own demise.

[hexola]

6. Suuuure...I guess Bono will sue them next...U2...(nt)

[zbdent]

7. That's called

free advertising ...

Universal yadda yadda yadda probably was upset because a CEO saw an anti-Bush vid ... and felt his backdated stock options were at risk for taxation ...

[truebrit71]

8. When will EweTube.com sue them...you know, the website for hot-looking sheep...??

:evilgrin:

[Warpy]

9. That one will be laughed right out of court

if it even gets that far. It's a nuisance suit by somebody who's hoping for a fat out of court settlement.