I did not know that the campaign used XBAND Rough and not FF Confidential, though. So this fact is new to me, and I find it hilarious,” said Just van Rossum to TorrentFreak.

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Whether the "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign stole the music is up for debate, but I found today that the font they used throughout was a pirated clone (XBAND Rough) of a real font ...

I did not know that the campaign used XBand-Rough and not FF Confidential, though. So this fact is new to me, and I find it hilarious,” [Link: "You Wouldn’t Steal a Car” ...

Bluesky user Rib extracted the fonts used in one of the campaign's old PDFs and discovered the pirated font Xband-Rough was used instead of Mr van Rossum's licensed font FF Confidential.

The user discovered that the pirated XBand-Rough was used instead of Rossum's original creation. The creators of the ad campaign are unlikely to have been aware of their font being pirated as it ...

Topic: xband rough “You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy campaign may have used pirated fonts. Digging into archived site points to use of questionable text styling.

Rib describes Xband Rough as a 'pirated font' and Lewis as an 'illegal clone', but while fonts are copyrighted in the UK, they are not in the US, so it seems difficult to judge the legality of ...

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Well, one Fediverse user found the XBAND Rough font embedded in a PDF file that was hosted on the official campaign website. TorrentFreak confirmed that XBAND Rough is embedded in both an official ...