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The ‘Piracy. It’s a Crime’ campaign used pirated music, *and* as it turns out, also used pirated fonts. Incredible.

fontsinuse.com“Piracy. It’s a Crime.” PSAFrom Wikipedia: “You Wouldn’t Steal a Car” is the first sentence and commonly used name of a public service announcement that debuted on July 12, 2004 in cinemas, and July 27 on home media, which wa...

Rib ΘΔ@rib.gay

By using FontForge on a PDF from the website for the campaign (web.archive.org/web/20051223...); I can confirm that they are indeed using the illegal clone version of the font, rather than the licensed one!

Trouble System

@treat.kandicritter.sqky.one

24 Apr 2025

font clones are not technically illegal provided they don't use identical stroke data. it's only a pirated font if you nabbed the original font file and used it in breach of licence.

Mass-Driver

@mass-driver.com

Under US law yes, you can (indirectly) copy outlines without breaching IP law. But that’s a very specific loophole that I don’t think applies here (the FF library also wasn’t US-based)

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