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02 Nov 2006
Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment has had enough of serving web visitors looking for a similarly named online video service.
The industrial equipment maker from Perrysburg, Ohio runs an internet site at utube.com, but has received millions of visitors in recent months looking for the similarly sounding YouTube.com.
Universal Tube is demanding that YouTube either changes its name or pays the manufacture for a corporate rebranding and new internet domain.
Utube.com has seen its internet traffic grow dramatically in recent months as the video service gained in popularity.
The load on the company's website peaked to paralysing levels after Google announced that it would acquire YouTube for $1.65bn.
"We have moved our website four times during recent days to servers with increasing levels of bandwidth capable of handling not only our customers and reps, but the continuing deluge of confused video searchers," said Universal Tube.
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Their glass is definitely half empty rather than half full.
I daresay it may have been a bit of a pain for them in some ways to have to deal with all the extra traffic - but talk about ungrateful ... and blind ... to the incredible extent of the free exposure their products have got. They should be chortling with glee at the free International publicity they've got - they're a darn household name by now so many people have clicked on them and discussed the mix-up. Personally I think they're a shower of glum old f**ts!
Posted by: ImReallyAnElf 10 Nov 2006
Never look a gift horse in the mouth
Never Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth.
Posted by: avenwaq 02 Nov 2006