Re: CSS3 @font-face / EOT Fonts

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Thomas Phinney <tphinney@adobe.com> wrote:

> If people want to actively pirate fonts and strip DRE information out of
> them, they can and will. But having such info in the fonts there means that
> people will have to knowingly do something that most people think is wrong,
> and experience (PDF, SWF) and survey data both suggest that most people
> won't go so far.
>

Downloading a resource (font, image, script, or text) from someone else's
server and republishing it on your own server, without checking licensing,
is also something "most people think is wrong". The same-origin restriction
requires this action, so why isn't it a high enough barrier?

Rob
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own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah
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