"We entered into correspondence with Rogers, informing him of our discoveries and letting him know that all our member wanted was for him to destroy the unlawful stock of copied software he had manufactured, acknowledge that he had breached copyright, and enter into discussions regarding compensation."

Surely an email stating "OK!, Done" would have sufficed and then just carry on as normal, thats what Paris would have done! *nods*

There can be only one Federation - and Paramount has the copyright on that!

On second thoughts, perhaps FAST should carry on referring to themselves in that way. Paramount's lawyers can then ask them to chase themselves to stop them using a copyrighted name.

Won't that be fun!

Haha, "please call us The Federation in all your correspondence. It makes us feel big and important."

Bunch of a$$es.

Sounds a lot like "The Empire"...I wonder if they have a cool army of stormtroopers.

With a name like The Federation, I think they were more aiming for the Trekkies....

Will they be re-running their Nazi Youth recruitment adverts again?

Redruth is nowhere bloody near Penzance. Penzance is in the hundred of Penwith, whereas Redruth is in the hundred of Kerrier, not really known as the hundred of piracy. It's actually better known for another activity.

Camborne School of Mines, arguably the best mining academy in the world, is located in Pool, halfway between Camborne and Redruth. It also boasts the last operational Cornish beam engine (and the father of steam locomotives, Richard Trevithic. Stevenson who?). It's more likely that this "piracy ring" were data miners in Kerrier. I'll get me coat...

...is a nominal phrase that I, and many others like me, will forever associate with Star Trek and pretty much nothing else.

'Cos they like to get caught ... eventually .... it isn't just the dosh it's the Challenge and the Glory and the Chase in a world that is "controlled" [ usually not very well] by Bill Gates and his clones ( read clowns!) Life would be a bit less lively without the Gaelic Entrepeneurs and their "innocent customers" ... buy one get one Free !

How can software be stolen when it's licensed, not sold?

He only lives 10 miles away from me!!!

I need a t-shirt with THE FEDERATION on it

in a Star Trek Font

Oh Well

... were the bad guys in Blake's Seven, possily more approrpiate this side of the pond

Camborne & Redruth are full of it. St. Austell is just as bad. If they did a house to house search round here I bet they'd pick up hundreds of these guys, and tens of thousands of machines with dodgy software installed...

...bit like everywhere else in the country then.

Cornish persecution to me. The CLA will be up in arms (or pointed sticks as I don't imagine they have any arms or weapons to speak of)

British sci-fi series? Featuring an oppressive, all-encompassing police state called “The Federation”? I for one would be rather worried if FAST started recruiting a black-garbed paramilitary enforcement squad, especially if they wear silly-but-sinister ring-shaped head visors. Or if FAST’s next chief executive wears her dark hair very, very short. And if you are visited by an aggressive man who refuses to take both his gloves off, no matter how hot it is, don’t let him look at your computers and don’t let him point the hand with the rings on anywhere near you.

Now all we need is for someone to start smuggling grey imports in on a boat called the “Liberator”.

Ooo-oooh, The Federation's lot is not a nappy one!