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THEY WOULD STEAL A CAR

Oh the irony!

They were trying to tell us we would get away with it

Hilarious.

I think what's extra funny is that the usage rights for XBAND Rough is for "personal use" on most sites, because it's a dupe and not the licensed FF Confidential.

You WOULD download a font, if only to ensure you could view the message in its intended form.

@drolemit.cidadedorme.com.br voce nao roubaria uma fonte

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Also it is super ironic that it became an unskipable annoying commercial for everyone not pirating. "Let's piss off the people doing what we want."

NOOOO 😂

I thought the font was too cool for everything else in those ads. I would absolutely steal anything if it was as easy as downloading it. Like, who wouldn't?

Found it. It was actually the FCC's Kidzone. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/12...

@baitybait.bsky.social

This is too perfect LMFAO

This is just further proof that they didn't care about piracy, they just cared that someone somewhere might not be giving them specifically money.

Those were probably my most used fonts back in the late '90s. The place I worked for made sure to have licensed copies after hearing rumours that a rival company had been fined.

piracy is moral <3

oh my god thats fucking hilarious

Also stealing a car takes it away. If I could wave my hand and make a second car just like the first and they don't lose anything. I would. Copying is a copy. Not a move. Locking up out cultural heritage behind a paywall for a century+? Now THATS theft!

Somehow it doesnt surprise me!!

Oh yeah people don't know you have to pay for those, too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZ...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

this is beyond hilarious XD "YOU WOULDNT STEAL A... well ok WE would, but YOU shouldn't! because you want to steal OUR THING!"

Kinda? There’s definitely a long history of knockoffs and bootlegs. But we’re a small industry, there are generally accepted practices regarding what makes a legitimate revival (usually they do adapt or improve the source material across technology lines). Actual theft between foundries is rare!

and the 9/10 times and 1/10 times are not statistically sound. they are ment to say "most of the time" and "not most of the time"

bsky.app/profile/ufbd...

Since this seems to have found an audience: hello! Fonts are made by humans and (mostly) sold by small businesses — if you’re going to pirate something (like assets for an anti-piracy ad campaign, for example), there are probably other options to consider first <3

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)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjq2...

Feels like the closed-dource Linux distro (RIA or MPAA?) distributed to Post-sevondary admins to catch torrent traffic on their networks way back when

@el-navegante.bsky.social The campaign did the exact thing it was suppose to be against.

Rules for thee and not for me

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either that or it was a remix of that song, it definitely sounded different because it didn't have the loud ass feedback sample that the original had

D'oh!

Because like with so many things - it’s fabricated rage that at its core is simply unacknowledged projection.

Makes it even more tempting to download a car

What a bunch of fucking hypocrites 😡

Even more proof that those ads were estúpida. Eh the Spanish is accidental but I'm keeping it.

Same...with writing, music, etc. Then again, whenever it wasn't being restricted by a publisher I've also given digital versions of pretty much everything away for free.

Vinegar that has turned so acidic that it's worse than xenomorph blood.

ironic

I was browsing fonts in use the other day and my gf told me about the music being pirated, now I get to tell her about the pirated fonts hahaha

you wouldent steal a font X3

Such hypocrisy, I always knew preservation isn't a crime