Font Licenses?

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  • boobs0

    Frankly, I don't understand the technical reasons for these restrictions on Flash embedding.

    I mean, I could get a House Industries font, and use it to print say, a billion napkins for a restaurant chain, with no additional charges.

    What is so special about embedding something in a Flash file that it falls into a whole other usage category? Is it that easy to swipe a font just because it's embedded in the .swf? Is that what they're worried about? (And, you know, practically speaking, no one embeds the whole character set of the font--just the ones they use.)

    • The "special" thing is they have a way of selling the same thing to you again.raf
    • you can't extract a font from napkins, swf: no problemo.jimbojones
    • ding ding ding!version3
    • google trends says "archer swf" is now most wanted, hmmmmmjimbojones

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