"You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign used unlicensed font

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Melissa Lewis (@melissa.news)

While cloned fonts may not be illegal, it certainly wasn’t in the spirit of the campaign.

The music was definitely used illegally though.

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I am going to download an entire car the moment it is technically possible and feasible to do so with a sufficiently large 3d printer. I don't even care if cars are still a thing by that point, I will do so simply out of principle, to be able to say "Yes I absolutely would download a car, I just did!"
- You could just download it, no need to actually print the thing for no reason
  I would buy a larger drive to do that though, just to say I did
  
  in which case there are already open source cars out there to download.
  
  How much ram do i need to download first?
- Yes I absolutely would download a car
  This campaign joins D.A.R.E. as one of the most ironically unsuccessful campaigns of all time.
- I mean the original anti-piracy ad said you wouldn't steal a car, because they were trying to equate digital piracy with physical theft, it's the meme edits that say you wouldn't download a car
  
  I will copyright some schematics so everyone can enjoy the thrill of piracy to really drive the point home.
If I could download a car and use it in real life, I certainly would.
- If I could let you copy mine I'd be the first to offer a torrent.
  
  I would download your car, not because I need one, but just to seed it.
If your car can't run without its firmware, and you download a new version of it.. Etc.
Anyway, I've heard that this ad possibly resulted in more piracy as people became aware that it was even possible to save money by downloading movies and music. Hard to measure though.
- Frankly it's kinda wild that cars are basically whole computers these days.
  
  Everything's computer.
  
  even more so if you think about the newer ones recording their environment, the whole neighborhood etc, with cameras and/or radar/lidar
As evil as Graham Lineham is, I do need to post the parody of these forwarders that was in The IT Crowd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
- looks up Graham Lineham
  If ever there was a case for separating the art from the artist (while still being careful not to support him monetarily or otherwise)..
  
  After an episode of The IT Crowd was criticised as transphobic, Linehan became involved in anti-transgender activism. He argues that transgender activism endangers women, and has likened the use of puberty blockers to Nazi eugenics. Linehan says his views have lost him work and ended his marriage
  Wikipedia
  
  Hey at least his ex-wife is probably a lot more happy now. Good for her
Also, just a week or two ago, I DID download a Rimac Nevera.
In Cyberpunk 2077, but still..
Yeah my understanding is the musician licensed the music only to be shown at a few live events, like film festivals, but that PSA was on an entire era of DVDs.
- What an irony.
The music AND the font? Jeez.
I'm sure as hell downloading it!
How exactly does one even make a whole new font?
- Basically draw every character individually as a vector graphic and put them all together into a font file with something like FontForge.
- It's not that hard, technically speaking, though of course it takes skill to come up with a set of glyphs that work well together and such.
  Also, there are websites that can scan your handwriting and turn it into a font file, which is pretty cool. I have a font I created of my wife's handwriting.
When I made https://lemmy.world/post/26809917 I used stamPete Regular
Wouldn't steal a car? Shit I just might.

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