Re: Thoughts on font linking and embedding

I guess the point to be made about piracy of fonts and the same origin restriction is this.

If I write a page that *embeds* a font on your site, I might be able to persuade myself that *I* didn't steal it, since I never even downloaded it. But if I have to download and re-host it, because that site has a same-origin restriction, I don't have this (admittedly small) fig leaf to hide behind.

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Thursday, 17 February 2011 05:50:41 UTC