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That one famous anti-piracy PSA campaign may have used a pirated font
Instead of using the original font called “FF Confidential,” which was designed by Just van Rossum in 1992 and requires ...
You wouldn’t steal a font.
But the folks behind the mid-2000s anti-piracy campaign that once compared pirating software to stealing a car might have, ...
Iconic Anti-Piracy Ad May Have Used Pirated Font
As Torrent Freak points out, the font in the PSA appears to be FF Confidential, created by Just Van Rossum in 1992. And ...
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Font used in famous anti-piracy campaign was pirated
"You Wouldn't Steal a Car" was an anti-piracy campaign of the early 2000s, famously ineffectual and the target of many parodies. It has long been known the campaign exceeded the licensing terms of the ...