Font leaking

Dusan Jelesijevic

I witnessed one strange situation.

Day one:
After preparing promo posters for latest typeface, I sent whole package (font files, posters, description text) to an vendor (email to email).

Day two:
The typeface got released.

Day three:
After doing search on Google with typeface name, I found an warez website that already started sharing the typeface!

This all would be "usual" today, except one thing – for period of those 3 days, I only sent ZIP package to one vendor and in those 3 days there were no customers who bought it. The vendor says it doesn't have anything to do with them.

So my question is how the hell it leaks so fast, – unsecured servers of vendors, somebody entered my computer remotely or hacked email accounts?

I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Dusan

Stephen Coles

Did you download the file from the warez site? Sometimes these sites simply replicate common search terms in order to lure visitors to their sites and sell advertising, but the files don't really contain what they claim.

Dusan Jelesijevic

Hm, didn't know that!

They use some of file hosting/cloud storages that require premium user accounts to be able to download it.

Arthur Reinders Folmer

Then it most definitely isn't the real thing. Sites like those try to lure customers with fake files. (which are generated for everything) Otherwise it would be all over the place.

attar

› Sites like those try to lure customers with fake files. 

Or worse... viruses.