Anonymous declares war after French firm trademarks its logo

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/31/anonymous_french_firm_trademark/

The company Early Flicker, or E-Flicker, has registered the headless man logo and the slogan 'We are Anonymous, We do not forgive, We do not forget. Expect us' with the French National Institute of Industrial Property. This would allow the company to produce and sell merchandising bearing the logo, and potentially to take action against others who use it in France.

"Their arrogance and ignorance of what they have done will not go unpunished," promised the group in a video on YouTube.

*me gets popcorn*

+1 for publicity
-1000 for making your company target #1

dan1895

This has to be up there as one of the most stupid ideas ever. Along with those Danish cartoons.

EoghanIRL

I predict their website might crash.

fasttalkerchat

Should be interesting...

EoghanIRL

dan1895 wrote: »

This has to be up there as one of the most stupid ideas ever. .

It is a French company

Kylo Ren

Why didn't Anon register it before?

*Not criticising them or anything.....OH god please don't hack me*

GoldFour4

Its a good publicity stunt. I'm glad its working and glad it's pissing anonymous off. Their arrogant "we're going to destroy you" attitude towards all enemies has become extremely irritating, especially when they shut down a websites that people use everyday for work.

TheGoldenAges

I predict a distorted voice making empty threats presides a DDOS which lasts for a couple of hours...

drunkmonkey

Sacre blue, Just as I thought I was about to get some sleep, time to get crank back up the server and let fly with some green poison. Sleep tight Paris Mu ha ha ha Mu ha ha ha mu :pac:

DesperateDan

Keno 92 wrote: »

Why didn't Anon register it before?

*Not criticising them or anything.....OH god please don't hack me*

It's weird I felt like calling them idiots on that video then I got scared they might hack me. Oh glorious new leaders we love you and your beloved logo.

BillyMitchel

They should change the name to "early bean flicker"

Johro

What a shitty bit of opportunism.. I hope Anonymous go to town on them.

Capt'n Midnight

Keno 92 wrote: »

Why didn't Anon register it before?

Whose name would they put on the form ?

Queen-Mise

It may be a publicity stunt for the company in France - but they won't be able to make much money when all their systems crash. I wouldn't be trusting them at the moment with my credit card details knowing who will be attacking them soon.

Idiocy on behalf of the company - they could just have used the logo without trying to copyright it. I wonder how much this will cost them before it is over.

Kylo Ren

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Whose name would they put on the form ?

Mike Hunt.

Amanda Hugginkiss.

I.P. Freely.

Jacques Strap.

Hugh Jass.

Duggy747

They're gonna DDOS their croissants, leaving many French people highly irritable.

Even for a publicity stunt I don't think it's a good idea when they've opened themselves for attack for a couple of months. It's going to set them back money and smear their name with constant attacks.

my my my

i blame terry henry

Duggys Housemate

I thought most of the group of acne ridden teenage shut-ins from the Scottish Isles and Birmingham bedsits had been arrested, if not then they may just be able to launch a DDOS on this guys website for the 5 minutes they will last.

token101

Aside from the backlash, their idea is slightly flawed. Who'd buy an Anonymous t-shirt?

notnumber

token101 wrote: »

Aside from the backlash, their idea is slightly flawed. Who'd buy an Anonymous t-shirt?

People who want to be anonymous?

TheGoldenAges

In fairness to Anonymous they do some decent things...
Like I know last year they messed with the Mexican Cartels after one of their members was kidnapped by them. They've also gone after the child porno ring several times as well.

Seaneh

Keno 92 wrote: »

Why didn't Anon register it before?

*Not criticising them or anything.....OH god please don't hack me*

Anon as an entity doesn't exist...

How can nobody register something?

Duggys Housemate

TheGoldenAges wrote: »

In fairness to Anonymous they do some decent things...
Like I know last year they messed with the Mexican Cartels after one of their members was kidnapped by them. They've also gone after the child porno ring several times as well.

They backed down pretty quick from the cartels.

FanadMan

Queen-Mise wrote: »

It may be a publicity stunt for the company in France - but they won't be able to make much money when all their systems crash. I wouldn't be trusting them at the moment with my credit card details knowing who will be attacking them soon.

Idiocy on behalf of the company - they could just have used the logo without trying to copyright it. I wonder how much this will cost them before it is over.

Don't think Anonymous would like them to use the logo even if they didn't trademark it. My tea leaves tell me that pickapop.fr are gonna be in a world of hurt soon :cool:

Seaneh

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

They backed down pretty quick from the cartels.

No they didn't they won.

The cartels can't threaten anon, because anon isn't anybody.

Duggys Housemate

Seaneh wrote: »

No they didn't they won.

The cartels can't threaten anon, because anon isn't anybody.

They obviously didn't win, the cartels are hardly bankrupt. Anon exists as much as any loose collection of people, on the Internet. Or elsewhere.

token101

Seaneh wrote: »

No they didn't they won.

The cartels can't threaten anon, because anon isn't anybody.

They backed down

Seaneh

token101 wrote: »

They backed down

The kidnapped member was released, I'd call that a victory, seeing as that was the entire reason it started.

token101

Seaneh wrote: »

The kidnapped member was released, I'd call that a victory, seeing as that was the entire reason it started.

"Hacker group backs away from exposing people it believes are connected to Zetas cartel after alleged threat of killings"

while he said he was comfortable with running personal risks and "passing a death sentence" on those he identified, the wider retaliation threat had made him "rethink my position".

In other words, they backed down.

Seaneh

One person, who is the opposite of anonymous, given that he allowed himself to be names, gave a sound bite to the guardian.

Operation Cartel happened because an anon was kidnapped in mexico, the reason it was started was to force them to free her with threats of releasing dox.

The anon was released, the dox weren't released, that's how it was always going to work.

They knew if they released anything the people they were trying to help would have just been killed.

Chuck Stone

The thing is, anonymous are not stopping people from using the image on whatever they want. The fact that some knob-end(s) is trying to 'capture' it for profit and prevent anyone else from using it is what's annoying.

That's what so frustrating about copyright law - you are almost forced into playing the game because some greedy bastard will 'capture' your stuff that you want to be 'open source'.

Anyone stupid enough to buy anything off the company should be summarily punched in the throat.

Pulsating Star

This French company may just be a front in order for them to make money from the logo?

Fiery mutant

Anonymous will just have to turn up en masse at the firm headquarters and they will probably surrender.

Jay D

This is great.