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Mass-Driver
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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!

Mass-Driver
@mass-driver.com

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

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