You wouldn’t steal a font: Famous anti-piracy campaign may have used pirated typeface
https://news.sky.com/story/you-wouldnt-steal-a-font-famous-anti-piracy-campaign-may-have-used-pirated-typeface-13357462?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
Posted by ThatchersDirtyTaint
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Pirated the music, pirated the font. Was any part of the ad actually paid for?
Ok the sheer hypocrisy of this shit is astounding. An anti piracy advert where the visuals and the audio were pirated.
Did they pirate stock video footage too?
Obligatory [IT crowd link ](https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg?si=vs0mpM5ifv7_k4-A)
If I remember correctly, the music in those ads was also pirated
> If purchasing isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing…
– Something, something, high seas.
That ad probably ended up teaching more kids about pirating movies than actually preventing it
I was the designer of the font. I would claim royalties just out of shear spite and for the comedic value.
> You wouldn’t steal a font
Most people definitely would.
The average person’s knowledge of copyright typically extends to knowing things like not being able to use Disney characters to advertise your company.
The average person doesn’t consider that you would have to pay to use a font.
You wouldn’t steal a handbag. You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a baby. You wouldn’t shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn’t go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman’s grieving widow. And then steal it again! Downloading films is stealing. If you do it, you will face the consequences.
>There’s no evidence to suggest that the campaign’s designers were aware that the font was pirated, as copies of it were being widely shared at the time.
Horseshit.
Every professional designer knows full well that fonts have licenses and that copyright is a thing because they wouldn’t want the assets they spent hours/days/weeks/months creating being passed to the good and plenty without compensation (unless that’s what they chose for the benefit of open source!).
You think the media industry allowed ignorance as an excuse when they were putting elderly people and young kids in prison for sharing MP3’s because they were “widely shared” over P2P? Like fuck they did.
These people know they stole the stuff they did. Personally, I’m more pissed off that the media is trying to proclaim that stealing from an independant artist (the typographer who likely spent months making that font) is absolutely fine, yet if people torrent a movie rental on an overpriced subscription service owned by billionaires, they’re foaming headlines about us being scum that deserve the death penalty.