In a plot twist stranger than fiction, a mid-2000s anti-piracy campaign once hollered at us, ‘You wouldn’t steal a car!’—but, spoiler alert, it seems they might have been complicit in a font heist themselves.
That’s right! According to an elegantly trolling report by Torrent Freak, the very campaign preaching the perils of software piracy was outed for using a knockoff font rather than the licensed one they claimed to endorse. Just Van Rossum, the original creator of the font, got a kick out of this revelation: “I knew my font was used for the campaign and that a pirated clone named XBand-Rough existed. I did not know that the campaign used XBand-Rough and not FF Confidential… So this fact is new to me, and I find it hilarious.”
It’s like a crime movie where the cop is caught trying to steal the same loot he’s investigating! How poetic that their campaign against piracy came back to bite them like a very poorly executed plot twist.
So folks, the next time someone tries to tell you that stealing software is akin to car theft, just remember—the irony is as rich as the font they didn’t actually license.
And, hey, have you ever borrowed a font without asking? Let’s talk about it in the comments—no judgment here, just curious minds!
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