FAST is a strange organisation whose leaflets are full of very weird (often totally nonsensical) stuff (sometimes unrelated to copyright violation) some of which is probably slanderous/unlawful in some way. I phoned them once and they're very shifty and seemed to have no idea what they actually do or why nyone would want to phone them.
I always assumed they weren't a genuine anti-copyright-violation organisation but some kind of front for some other activity, but they may `just' be a run-of-the-mill copyright-related extortion and protection racket (targetting users and copyright holders)--not that that is not illegal in itself. People must be pretty stupid to give them any money, though, but I guess I should stop understimating the power of human stupidity. I'm not sure why you would want to tell them if someone was breaking the law (as opposed to the copyright holder and the police). Although some copyright holders (e.g.: Microsoft) seem to want to encourage people copying their products illegally as part of their business model. I did report someone to MS once and they didn't care even though it was quite a large violation. Does anyone know if FACT actually have the backing of any software companies, just out of interest? Yours, Joe Ll. G. Blakesley -- This mail sent through http://webmail.bangor.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
