Font Licenses?
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- ukit0
jimbo, I understand, but with all due respect that's a silly argument.
Your prices and licensing restrictions make you "lose customers" as well. Like I said earlier, it's just as likely - in fact, far more likely that the original buyer will illegally distribute the typeface than that someone would go through the task of buying a piece of SWF extraction software and trying to get the font.
Additionally, it's completely non-enforceable. What are they going to do, subpoena your FLA files and check to see if you embedded the font dynamically? They don't have the legal authority to do that.
BTW, I am totally in favor of the small foundries being able to make enough to keep doing what they do (and I spent a couple thousand dollars on fonts personally last year buying from these kinds of companies). I just think they are not showing much intelligence with these kinds of onerous licensing restrictions. It reminds me of the music industry and DRM.
- that is why some foundries mark their fonts, and then the buyer who shared makes a funny face.jimbojones
- Same thing music industry tried, with no results...ukit