Given our issues with IP theft, I am expanding an article I was originally writing on Font Installers to include font theft as well. Thus, I'm looking for anyone who would like to be quoted in regards to this article. If you're interested in doing so, please feel free to comment below and let me know I can use it in my article. I'll have the draft up probably around Friday or so, so everyone can see and add points to it, though if your comment is overly long I might have to edit for clarity and length (you know how that goes.)
Thanks for any assistance!
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Of course, once your draft is up, getting comments is a fine way to get quotes.
Hopefully this should clarify things.
Pirate font sites resembling free font sites
Pirated fonts are presented as being free. There's nothing to indicate to the customer that what they're downloading is a pirated font. When people download them, they have no idea that a "pay" version exists. I think those sites lead directly to lost sales. Some people who download those fonts would have been willing to pay for them if they knew they weren't legit. If they added a black skull and bones flag to their logo and called it "Font StealAAARRRR.com" I'd be satisfied.Free font sites hosting pirated fonts
It's similar to the first example but more frustrating. Free sites like dafont.com 1001fonts.com and 1001freefonts.com are maintained by people who do their best to keep pirated fonts away. But most other free fonts sites aren't careful about what fonts end up on their sites. A user submits a pirated font with the license stripped off it claiming it's free and it goes live on the site, unchecked. If you request removal, most of them will comply if you can get past the barriers. Many sites have broken contact forms, no contact email, no contact information whatsoever. Even if you succeed in having the font removed, these sites don't maintain blacklists. A user uploads the same pirated font a few weeks later and it goes up on the site, unchecked.When your work does get pirated, get over it as fast as possible.