Senator Ted Stevens’ claim to fame (and Wikipedia entry) is not his legislative work, but his famous metaphor, comparing the Internet to series of tubes. The world ridiculed him .. but is he turning out to be right?
uTube, as in Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, the Ohio pipe equipment company who saw their website wiped out by traffic looking for Youtube first filed a lawsuit againts Youtube – but does anyone really want to figth Google? So the next best thing is figure out how to monetize the unexpected traffic. Solution: uTube now sells ringtones. Their tube business became a Web business overnight…
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Not just ringtone! They’ve got a whole lame header bar pimping everything from Ringtones to gambling to “Film School” and “Utube Search” which generates 100% spam results.
Check it out: http://utube.com/
I have to say their reaction is about as lame as could be possible. Try to sue YouTube for lost business while simultaneously trying to profit from YouTube in the most disreputeable way possible… lame.