Utube Sues YouTube
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by Mike Zazaian November 2, 2006 - 1:44pm, 3 Comments
The company’s site, Utube.com, got 68 million hits in August alone, making it one of the most visited manufacturer websites on the Internet. Alexa.com even pegged Utube as the biggest mover and shaker on the ‘Net during the week in which YouTube was acquired by Google. However, as most of this traffic has come from confused YouTube users, the company’s site has incurred immense hosting and bandwidth costs, without seeing any real financial benefit. The heavy server loads have also caused long outages for Utube.com, often going down for several days at a time. Said Ralph Girkins, President of Universal Tube:
We’ve had to move our site five times in an effort to stay ahead of the youtube.com visitors.
Filed in U.S. District court this week, the lawsuit requires that YouTube pay for the hosting of a new site, as well as the cost of bandwidth and hosting that it’s incurred from the influx of visitors. The suit also seeks damages for business lost due to the site outages, although the amount of the damages was not specified.
Amidst the lawsuit Girkins plans to sell the rights to Utube.com and move the site to another address, although he’s not happy about it.
We were there first by 10 years,
said Girkins.
Perrysburg-based Universal Tube was founded in 1985 claims an annual revenue of about $12 million in sales. YouTube, after being founded last November, quickly developed a user base that views 100 million video clips daily. The company was sold to Google last month for a combined $1.65 billion in cash and stock.
this is probably the stupidest thing i’ve ever heard.
Alien Nine
Youtube is one of the most popular video sharing sites on the net. A year ago, co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were in between jobs, a pair of twentysomething geeks running up big credit card debts as they tooled around a garage trying to develop an easy way for people to share homemade videos on the Web.
Hurley says, “I do not want to work hard. I want to live a soft life. I want to sleep for three hours every afternoon and nine hours at night. I do not want to stay awake the whole day so that I can get a few 350 grand at the end of each month. I do not want my talents to be exploited by a ruthless employer. I am a lazy man. That is why I choose to live off the net. I am too lethargic to try and survive in the real world. That is why I did not bother to hold down a job though my credit card debt soared.
“On the net things are handed to me by Google. The idea of youtube came to me from a dinner party with a half-dozen friends in the greatest city in the world San Francisco. It was January, 2005, and we couldnt figure out a good solution. Sending the clips around by e-mail was a bust: The e-mails kept getting rejected because they were so big. Posting the videos online was a headache, too. So we created a site and put in basic software.
“What I and Steve came up with is a Web site, now called YouTube, that has become an Internet phenomenon. Show the honey and the bees will flock to it. We worked for about six hours each week for two months designing youtube. We had the idea to create a community around the video.
“Once that was done we knew that tons of millions of dollars would just flow into our laps after the Google buyour. We will not have to work hard. In the old economy you have to work really hard for a lousy promotion which might give you a few more grand if your employer is very generous. You have to get up 3early in the morning and run for a few grand. On the net you can become rich without working hard.
“On the net once you have the idea you just sit at home and then magic will happen. That is exactly what happened at Paypal, Skype, MySpace, Facebook. The basic, simple to design software that I and Chen designed allows people to post almost anything they like on YouTube in minutes. People can jack off on porn. Now we are sitting at home retired early after the Google buyout. Content has been handed to us on a silver platter. We do not have to slog hard to create content like a poorly paid online journalist who makes a lousy 450k each year. We do not have to experience daily financial pressure
because our site does not get enough readers. We are not under pressure to meet deadlines. We get up at ten in the morning and consider that to be hard work. We do not have to work for ten llllong years. That is the privilege of those in the old economy. they take the tube to go to work for a bum 350,000 dollar paycheck at the end of the month.
“We have it easy. The reason why we never held a job for more than a year was because we felt that a rope was attached to out necks. We would have had to stay chained in an office with four walls. It is such a pain to get up in the morning and run for the sake of a few 350 milli grand at the end of the month. The content that we offer is free. That is easy for us to that as we do not have to work to create it. Copyrighted work is there for our users to copy and paste as that is work which we have the right to copy. Other content
comes from common folk wanting to share stuff.
“Revenues will come from advertising. The net is a click and eyeballs business. Google understands this. The clicks come from youtube’s millions of eyeballs that we have not worked for. It is unearned traffic. We do not have to sweat and bleed for it. That is the privilege of poorly paid online journalists. I do not have to worry about losing my job as my content does not get get enough page views. So what if utube suffers losses. That is not my problem man. They are such losers. They have been ound before i was born and they still to weork for a living. How pathetic!
“I do not have to take the initiative about my own life. I do not have to discipline myself. I do not have to worry about having a career. The millions of youtube.com visitors will ensure that this will never happen. I can simply focus on trying to build relationships with my tall, tough women friends in San Francisco. We hang out together. We work out together. We sleep in the afternoon together.”
sivasankaran
adsense man, adsense.
Put adsense on your site it will pay much more than any money after all the trouble and lost energy in court.
Anyone on the net would dream to have this traffic on his site and you do not want it…
Definitively someone have an empty brain vision about the net. Please hire a net specialist consultant.
Daniel R. Lindsay
NetConsultant
Daniel Lindsay