Matthew Butt­erick ▸ Does software piracy exist?:

From time to time, readers let me know that my fonts are circu­lating on such-and-such website devoted to some cate­gory of soft­ware piracy.

Well yes—of course they are. In the font world, as in most areas of soft­ware endeavor, there’s been much hand-wringing over the last 40 years about the (suppos­edly) massive losses to this kind of unau­tho­rized redis­tri­b­u­tion and copying, and the lack of any satis­fying protec­tion mech­a­nisms to prevent it.

A short and enlightening read, and the “Trajec­tory” examples made me laugh out loud.

Via

Matthew Butt­erick ▸ Does software piracy exist?:

From time to time, readers let me know that my fonts are circu­lating on such-and-such website devoted to some cate­gory of soft­ware piracy.

Well yes—of course they are. In the font world, as in most areas of soft­ware endeavor, there’s been much hand-wringing over the last 40 years about the (suppos­edly) massive losses to this kind of unau­tho­rized redis­tri­b­u­tion and copying, and the lack of any satis­fying protec­tion mech­a­nisms to prevent it.

A short and enlightening read, and the “Trajec­tory” examples made me laugh out loud.

Via DF.