The first to go is Vic Fontaine. This is a no-brainer. Then they find the holodeck programmer who created Vic Fontaine, and kill him too. You seem to be active in several newsgroups. My presence on the newsgroups is primarily for tech support and marketing purposes.
Software piracy is always an unfortunate part of the computer game industry.
We're just two people working hard to create neat games and sell them. We aren't a huge corporation. We sell these things to buy food and make house payments. If you met us, you'd like us. But, over the years, I've gotten really blase about piracy.