Font Licenses?
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- jimbojones0
There is no good solution to protect digital files. That is all.
- boobs0
You guys have been busy while I was gone!
My overall point is this: it doesn't seem like the EULA which demands an extra fee for .swf embedding is a good approach from their point of view. Because obviously there's an enormous amount of font piracy out there, and this policy is actually discouraging me--who does not engage in piracy!--from purchasing their fonts.
Purchasing a House Industries font would mean I would have to track every single use of it in my work, and call them each and every time I thought about using it.
Would you buy a shirt if each time you wanted to wear it you had to call and ask? "Yep, you can wear it to work. Yep, you can wear it to the mall. Sure, school is OK. Wedding? Sister's wedding, or friend's wedding? Friend's wedding, opposite sex, with a date of your own? The surcharge for that is $120!!"
I know it's an absurd analogy, but the idea that you would have such a relatively inexpensive product--which could theoretically get used almost daily--where you would have to maintain constant communication with the "seller" is absurd.
People only have to deal with the landlord once a month! And I don't even have to call Apple when I boot up my MacBook!
- jimbojones0
boobs, if you had only 1 single hard copy of the font, which could be *taken away* from you if someone could extract it from a swf, you'd think twice if you want to embed. you can't really compare real goods like shirts and whatnot with digital data, which can be copied and shared without any loss on your side.
That said, if you only have to buy House fonts for swf use, and don't like the idea of calling them every time, (I don't like it) just don't buy their fonts, there are many alternatives.
- boobs0
That's why I started the thread!
Who are some font suppliers that allow embedding into .swf files?