That sucks big time. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

wow. Talk about protecting your brand. That stinks - David Jacobs from fftogo

It's not simply porn. He means to harm your image - Nikos Anagnostou

D'oh! This sort of thing means that you *have* to sign up to every service with your username to stop this happening... could be a good technique to get users to sign up... - Rich

this is why we need openid built into new apps from the start - Bill Thompson from twhirl

it really sucks, we had domain squatting, now it is username squatting - Loic Le Meur

Loic, Scoble recently reclaimed his identity in plurk. Why don' you ask him about whom he contacted? - Nikos Anagnostou

We've removed the squatter. You will receive an email from us shortly with the account password. Sorry for the trouble. - Alvin Woon

thank you Alvin, that was fast! I used loic AT gmail.com for my "loic" account so maybe you could use loic AT seesmic.com for the other one? Thanks! was fast - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

Two thumbs up, Plurk (Alvin). - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Nice to see the Plurk folks responding quickly to issues like this, Loic. - Phil G

I jus wonder if you have a homonym... we had such a discussion on Scoble's case, but it was about Scobleizer, and he was right... Now I wonder if you have cousins with the same first name... Just wondering - directeur

directeur, there are many Loic Le Meur in France, the other one I know is a city mayor. Fortunately none are too much into social software. The problem here wasn't really the squatting per say, but the porn terms to harm my "brand" which was clearly the goal - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

Loic: Thanks for the explanation, I understand this really, but if the guy used it as his personal account without the dirty stuff, I'd really be chocked to see Plurk giving you the account just because it's you... I hope you understand what i'm saying! N'est ce pas? :) - directeur

directeur yes and I am sure they would not have and that would have been fine by me - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

@Loic, you have my respect, sir! - directeur