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Re: A tool that lets you pirate all fonts on any website, instantly.
I think what bothers me most about this is not so much that it enables an easy method for people to steal fonts (which indeed is nothing new), but how straightforward they are in “educating” people a…2 -
Re: A tool that lets you pirate all fonts on any website, instantly.
John, rest assured that “professional design houses” regularly put OTFs on websites as web fonts, in violation of their license. Mostly they are not consciously violating their EULA, but they are jus…3 -
Re: A tool that lets you pirate all fonts on any website, instantly.
There’s always been a legal gray area when it comes to tools that enable piracy. Sometimes those same tools enable a valuable and legal use as well. Well-known court cases have hinged on that argumen…4 -
Re: Corporation letting public download my typeface for free
Yeah, wow, “Agency got the files thru Adobe Fonts” is not a thing. If that’s an accurate description, it would involve a deliberate circumvention of the technical measures that protect Adobe Fonts. (…5 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
I really don’t get the “monopoly” arguments here. Type 1 was essentially replaced by OpenType 20 years ago — forever in software terms. The format has been considered legacy software for quite a long…4
