p2pnet.net News:- YouTube is being sued for an undisclosed amount, but this time, the entertainment cartels have nothing to do with it.

Rather, a site owned by Universal Tube, which sells pipe machinery, “crashed repeatedly under the weight of millions of mistaken clicks,” says Guardian Unlimited, and UTube is accordingly demanding satisfaction.

Surfers were looking for YouTube, aka GooTube, the video download service whose already consdierable online fame was hyped beyond reason by copyright infringement claims and the fact it was bought by Google.

The Utube site, “has become one of most clicked manufacturing sites in the world and recorded 68m hits in August as computer users mistook it for the video sharing website,” says the story

The Register has Universal Tube owner Ralph Girkins saying, “This is an enormous expense and distraction for us. Contact with our customers has been disrupted, so I fear we have lost sales. We have even been contacted by police in Australia accusing us of having child pornography on our website. I resent this personally and this confusion is hurting our business.”

Utube predates YouTube by a decade or so, says Girkns, who wants YouTube to find a new home for its site, or, “for the company to cough up cash to help his company establish a new corporate identity”.

Also See:
Guardian Unlimited – Utube to sue YouTube amid site confusion, November 2, 2006
The Register – YouTube faces UTube lawsuit, November 2, 2006

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