When we were organising 'Rock Against Venkys' I received a couple of weird emails stating that I should not use Venky's brand name to advertise the event and that I should remove all references immediately. This happened after the story was covered in the Daily Telegraph. I have no idea how the sender got my email address but I had been communicating with lots of newspapers and radio stations, bands, venues etc using that email.
I just dismissed the warnings as they came from a GMAIL.com address and didn't seem in any way official. I was really hoping it WAS Venky's as the publicity of them trying to stop the gig would have been fantastic. I replied pointing out that I had not put the apostrophe in VENKYS so was not actually using the brand name. No idea if this was a valid defence but I never heard anything else.
I would think the publicity of Venky's taking legal action against venkysout.com would not be worth their while. Again, the publicity that could be generated would do more harm to Venky's than the website itself I would think.
When I was handing out flyers for Rock Against Venkys at Ewood before the MK Dons match earlier this season I got a very mixed response.
I would say 50% of people I spoke to were broadly supportive, 40% were ambivalent about Venky's and 10% were totally against any protest and were happy for Venky's to stay.
All valid opinions, of course, but a couple of people reacted as if I was an escaped lunatic and gave me a right mouthful. I suspect someone with these views sent the emails to me. But I will never know.