YouTube is being sued by a company whose website crashed after being swamped by tens of millions of visitors seeking the phenomenally popular online video-sharing service.
Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp, a small Ohio-based manufacturer that employs just 17 people, claims its website became a victim of YouTube’s success after being engulfed by 68 million hits in August. It says the cost of maintaining its own website – utube.com – exploded from $19 a month to more than $3,000 a
