Font Licenses?
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Yeah...anyways, interesting discussion. Just so you know I am coming at it from the POV of having worked in digital music industry for a couple years where you saw different stages of denial and failed strategies to prevent piracy.
First they tried DRM, which Jimbo mentioned some foundries are now implementing. We all know how well that turned out, and even iTunes has now dropped it. Then subscription services (i.e. Rhapsody, Urge etc) was supposed to save the day. And then they thought they were going to enforce piracy by suing individual consumers, I think we know how well that turned out.
And on the stock imagery side of things, you may not know it but GettyImages has gone through similar issues and is struggling for a solution: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/2…
The question is do we live in a world where everything is cheap and shit, or where some of the good shit is also free? Do we have to continue the exact same business model when it is clearly not working or do we try something completely different?