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(FAST) A non-profitmaking organisation, formedin 1984 by the software industry with the aim of eradicatingsoftware theft in the UK. FAST was the world's firstanti-piracy organisation to work to protect the intellectualproperty rights of software publishers. Initiallyconcentrating on lobbying parliament to revise Copyright law,FAST also prosecutes organisations and individuals forsoftware theft on behalf of its members and publicises thelegal penalties and security risks.FAST Corporate Services Limited runs the FAST Standard forSoftware Compliance (FSSC-1:2004). This was developed incollaboration with the British Standards Institution as anindependent standard of excellence in software compliance.In 1995 FAST proposed to merge with the Business SoftwareAlliance created by Microsoft and which has a world-wideinfluence. However, the talks fell through and in 1996,Novell and Adobe Systems, Inc. defected to BSA.FAST Home (http://fast.org.uk/).E-mail: .Address: York House, 18 York Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL61SF.Telephone: +44 (1628) 622 121