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Utube Sues YouTube
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samzenpus
on Thu Nov 02, 2006 05:43 AM
from the koca-cola dept.
from the koca-cola dept.
An anonymous reader writes "From The Age article: Universal Tube, which sells used machines that make tubes, has said it has lost business because customers have had trouble accessing its site." So now Utube is suing YouTube seeking a cease and desist on the youtube domain. (I wonder if they think Google's pockets might be deeper that the previous owners'.) This again raises the problems of domain names colliding across different industries and countries, and reminds me of the etoys/etoy tussle a few years back. Should domain name simply be exempt from trademark legislation in all countries or is it a legit thing to fight for?"
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No EToy for Christmas 376 comments
It's been a long week for etoy.com. On Monday, a judge issued a
preliminary injuction fining them $10,000 each day that their website
was hosted at their domain. They shut it down right away, of course.
They're just internet artists. They don't have six billion
dollars like the company that filed the suit:
eToys.com.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Click More.
Update: For more information about etoy, see the freshly-updated
dmoz category.
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Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
obviously (Score:2)
Obviously, because the internet is clearly not a truck, that you can just dump things on.
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Um... (Score:3)
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You missed a word in that sentence. s/geeks/geeks on Slashdot/
publicity stunt (Score:2)
this sounds like a simple case of getting publicity by suing a big name!
meanwhile, on the other news channel, I am suing google for US$1M for no other reason than that Google have more money than me, and thus Google are causing me to feel anxiety about my relative poverty.
What about... (Score:5, Funny)
I know, that was baaaaad.
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Common sense will prevail (Score:2)
If Utube came first, then yes, this is valid if YouTube is exploiting their fame. However, this isn't the case, if I'm not mistaken. YouTube is the one that is famous. Utube is the one that is trying to extort money from YouTube.
To give another example, imagine if I created a site with a name similar to Microsoft, and whenever someone Googled Microsoft, my domain would come up, and a significant number of people came to me first.
In related news... (Score:2)
The Amazon tribe of Brazil has sued Amazon.com for $1,000,000,000, complaining that they have potentially lost hundreds of dollars in sales of beads and feminine hygiene products while having to deal with dozens of accidental hits to their website.
More sues (Score:2)
Because they have customers so deeply confused by mistyping and misreading, they need to get as much cash as possible out of anything in order to remain alive in the market.
Eh? (Score:5, Insightful)
After all, it's clearly their fault that people are idiots.
Google Provides Servers? (Score:4, Interesting)
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It's the all encompassing .com that's the problem (Score:4, Interesting)
ooh, the wayback machine is fabulous, here's a rant I wrote years ago about ICANN and the flatness of the current DNS system.
And of course we now have phishing problems as well. Oh happy days.
Re:It's the all encompassing .com that's the probl (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:It's the all encompassing .com that's the probl (Score:4, Funny)
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HTH.
Imagine the scene (Score:3, Funny)
MD: "Ok folks! We need to buy 3 miles of indutrial tubing to complete this job, get paid, and then we can have our bonuses for working hard!"
Lackey1: "Ok boss! I'll just go to U-Tube to buy the tubing."
MD: "Good one lackey1. You make sure we place that order by 5.00pm tonight."
Lackey1 goes off to his computer in his office.
Lackey1: "Duh, ok! Let's type in youtube.com and order them tubes."
Watches screen.
Lackey1: "Hey! There's a video of some fat guy miming to Shakira!"
Later, in boardroom at 5.00pm.
MD: "So did you order those tubes we need to make money and get bonuses?"
Lackey1: "Duh, no boss! All I could find was videos of people! They didn't sell no tubing!"
MD: "What the f___?!?!"
Lackey1: "S'true I tells yah! I typed in youtube.com and never realised that it was the wrong website. That honestly never occurred to me!"
MD: "Gahh! We're going to go bust! If only we could have found u-tube's website, we'd have been rich! Wahhhhh! I want my mommy!"
What utube should have done (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Icons are incorrect for story (Score:5, Informative)
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Yes, and we also know that aluminum doesn't stop the mindcontrol rays like tin does, asshat*.
* Sorry for the inaccuracy. I know that "rectum hat" would be more accurate, but it takes longer to type.
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Wait a minute... don't these people make pipes? If they strung together a series of their tubes, I bet it just might work...