Downsides of Web Fonts?

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• gramme0

  Why would it be so hard to tweak @font-face so that it hides font software? Surely this is not unpossible.

  Even then, who would *actually* steal the fonts if they were there for the taking? Who would even (a) know how to do this, and (b) want to do this, besides unscrupulous designers?

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  • if it were easy it would be done. a new file format would mean every browser and font app would need to be updated to support it.acescence
  • .. support it. and it would be as effective as any other DRM, not very.acescence
  • = greekgramme

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