Anonymous is already gearing up for war against the company and the people behind it

Aug 1, 2012 15:03 GMT  ·  By

Anonymous is not exactly "anonymous" these days. Everyone has heard about it one way or another. Few people know what Anonymous is and how it works, perhaps even a few that think of themselves as Anonymous "members," but one thing that everyone knows by now is that you don't mess with Anonymous.

Its members are easily provoked as it is and they don't really need any provocation to go after you. And when they do, there's little you can do to escape the power of the hive mind.

Well, it seems that one company in France, Early Flicker or E-Flicker, didn't get the memo. This company sells novelty t-shirts, among them ones with the famous Anonymous logo and their fighting words "We are Legion. We do not Forgive. We do not Forget. Expect us."

That's all well and good, except this company has filed a trademark request for the logo and the words. This would give it exclusive rights to use them in France.

The company probably does this for all of its products and probably didn't think this one t-shirt should be different. Hopefully, that is, if the French company went out and tried to trademark this logo in particular knowing full well how widespread it is then it deserves everything that's coming to it.

And things are coming, make no mistake about it. Anonymous has already "issued" a YouTube video declaring that it will not rest until the trademark is removed and a public apology is given.

OpAnonTrademark is already underway and the site selling the t-shirts and the company requesting the trademark has been doxed, i.e. info such as phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses and so on has been made public on Pastebin. As of yet, the sites associated with the company are still live and operational.