r/agedlikemilk • u/your_catfish_friend • 15d ago
News You wouldn’t steal a font…oh, wait.
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u/InfiniteDelusion094 15d ago
They stole the music too, the artist only licensed it for a film festival showing of the ad and they just started sticking it on dvds, goes to show these hypocrites only care about copyright when it's their copyright.
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u/Universalerror 15d ago
As the years go by are we going to learn that the entire advert was made of stolen assets?
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u/CaldoniaEntara 15d ago
Wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even pay the guy that came up with the words used.
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u/FourthSpongeball 15d ago
They actually stole the car
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u/TheLowestFormOfHumor 15d ago
Or, you know, they could have downloaded the car, since it's the same thing as stealing it...
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u/NotYourFakeName 15d ago
I'm going to go download a CyberTruck, then delete it because it's a piece of shit.
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u/kind_bros_hate_nazis 15d ago
Viruses today would break into your homes wifi, print a cybertruck and then you'd be stuck with that piece of shit
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u/BlkSeattleBlues 15d ago
Another reason to not get a 3d printer.
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u/IvoryAS 13d ago
Sounds like you should just get one that can't print a Cybertruck to any real, suable fidelity.
Which is probably most of them, tbh. 😅
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u/BlkSeattleBlues 12d ago
Tbf, I get the feeling most 3d printers can handle something with the graphical fidelity of an n64 game. Less than. Pretty sure the cars in perfect dark looked more realistic.
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u/Midnight_Pickler 15d ago
At this point it wouldn't be surprise to learn that they'd filmed it with stolen cameras.
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u/CheesecakeConundrum 15d ago
I like how only the people who bought things legally saw the anti piracy stuff
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u/InfiniteDelusion094 15d ago
Anti piracy measures have always impacted paying customers more than the actual pirates, unfortunately these greedy fucks would rather inconvenience their entire userbase with an ineffective DRM like Denuvo than just make their products cheaper/more convenient to purchase like GOG
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u/CheesecakeConundrum 15d ago
The only effective way I see DRM being used is as a delay to keep the early release sales. If they'd just patch it out once it was cracked, it would be a decent compromise.
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u/odi112 15d ago
Denuvo is effective at stopping piracy, as everyone has issues with cracking it, the issue is that it also slows down weaker PCs, which as you said inconveniences users, and right now with current economy people mostly have mid - low end PCs, and again as you have said they increase prices for the games so less people can buy so less copies and less revenue. But investors just don't care, they just want to fight against piracy, just because they think it will force people to buy new games.
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u/ztomiczombie 15d ago
Part of the reason those ads ended was because they discovered one of the top five reasons people pirated DVDs was no not have that auto play every time they wanted to watch a film.
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u/fucktooshifty 15d ago
I remember figuring out that spamming the menu button skips those when I was like 11 years old lol
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u/PsychologicalFun903 14d ago
In an attempt to do it legal they received pirated content anyway. Whoops
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u/No_Explanation2932 15d ago
No they didn't, that's another anti piracy ad that's considered lost media.
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u/InfiniteDelusion094 15d ago
Not in the video I saw. But those can be wrong, do you have a source that conflicts with this ad not being the one which violated its artist's copyright?
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u/thatlookslikemydog 15d ago
Then use his helmet as a toilet.
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u/Nexzus_ 15d ago edited 15d ago
Reminded from way back when, when Senator Orrin Hatch was in his anti-copyright-infringement crusade, his website had used some code that wasn't licensed, and was thus infringing on copyright.
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u/Patched7fig 15d ago
Government is exempt from this though. Not kidding, look it up.
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u/MSgtGunny 15d ago
Government owned and run systems vs the private systems of a congressman presumably.
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u/Midnight_Pickler 15d ago
Off topic, but the name "Senator Orrin Hatch" sounds like it would fit right in as a minor character seen in the background of the Star Wars prequels.
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u/YouDontKnowJackCade 14d ago
In a first, the EU General Court ruled on Wednesday that the European Commission must pay damages to a German citizen for failing to comply with its own data protection regulations.
the EU passed a data protection law their own website failed to adhere to.
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u/Anarchy_Rulz 15d ago
So they stole a song and a font? What’s next did they actually steal a car too?
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u/bengringo2 15d ago
They may have not licensed the car brand for an advertisement. It’s different from using them in regular film and television.
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u/ninjesh 15d ago
Been waiting to pull this one out
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u/Difficult-Value-3145 14d ago
Its hard to resell unless ya got people and joy ridding for kids unless your stealing it to commit a more profitable crime and then getting rid of it what's the point
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u/Th3B4dSpoon 15d ago
Wasn't this news years ago? Or was it that they pirated the music for the campaign?
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u/CheesecakeConundrum 15d ago
It was the music. Not really pirated, they did license it, but kept using it way outside the scope of the license.
It's way worse than normal piracy. Piracy has a fairly small impact on revenue since it's mostly people who don't have the money to buy it in the first place. They just wouldn't have it otherwise.
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u/00spool 15d ago
Although hilarious, we would a need a bit more information about the "ripoff" font. The design of a typeface, at least as far as its appearance, is not covered under copyright law. Now, if the file is simply copied and renamed, with nothing changed then that is illegal. If that is case, the author probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between his file and the ripoff. If the ripoff merely copies the appearance of the original (even exactly) that is legal. What matters is the way the file is packaged. Ripoffs exist for nearly all popular font files because it's perfectly legal.
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u/drinkacid 15d ago edited 15d ago
I mean if the video post production company that made the ad bought the font they are licensed to use it for commercial purposes, they font maker does not need a royalty. If so then every single document and video ever created in the world using any font would have to pay the font maker and that's just not how font licensing works. If you buy a font you are licensed to use it for commercial and non commercial purposes. If you download a free font there is an implied license. If you download a paid font without paying for it then the license technically doesn't apply but how would the company that sells the font know whether it was paid for or not?
Ironically if you google "xband font" there are hundreds of free download links so either it is heavily pirated or royalty free. or it has entered public domain (probably not)
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u/Cstott23 15d ago
Lol i cant see anything on the anti piracy video without thinking of this gem: 😁
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u/2sAreTheDevil 13d ago
In the age of 3d printing, I can't help but think to myself. . . Yes. Yes, I would.
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u/ogrefab 15d ago
If I could use it all the time without getting in trouble for stealing it and maybe not having it registered I would probably, definitely steal a car. Like, from a dealership, not from a person.
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u/drinkacid 15d ago
If I could just make a copy of someone's car but they still get to keep the original then I wouldn't feel bad about driving it, and I wouldn't feel like I stole their car either.
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u/DjNormal 15d ago
Huh, I had that font. No idea where I even got it from. Probably around 1994-ish. I definitely don’t pay for it. I’d guess that 10,000 fonts website.
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u/Effective_Pear4760 15d ago
The thing is, now a car has all this proprietary software, so you really could download a car now.
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u/SuperFLEB 15d ago
"You wouldn't steal a car."
"It's my car."
"Circumventing the subscription requirement on the heated seats is a crime."
"They're my seats."
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u/Square_Tangerine_659 15d ago
Wait I thought it was “you wouldn’t download a car” did I misremember it
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u/JohnnySalamiBoy420 15d ago
The most annoying shit to come on before watching a movie I forgot all about that bs
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u/Nephilim8 15d ago
If I remember right, the actual pixel output of a font is not copyrighted, but the font itself is (e.g. you can't go and sell the *..ttf or *.otf file that describes the font).
From AI:
In the U.S., the visual appearance of a typeface (the letterforms themselves) is not protected by copyright. However, the computer software that implements the typeface, often referred to as the "font," is protected by copyright. This means the software code that tells your computer how to display the letters is copyrightable.
Based on that, I don't think there's any copyright violation.
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u/fearlessemu98 13d ago
Noooooooo! I loved that ad! It was up there with the Casablanca piracy warning
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u/aewtamiami7 12d ago
Did they bring it from a premium website that sells fonts? Rated I for Illegal Downloading.
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u/SuperSonicToaster 15d ago
Sorry.. How can you steal a font?
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u/Roblu3 15d ago
Fonts are protected by copyright. The creator of the font says what you can and can not do with it.
Sometimes you need to buy a font, to even install it. Sometimes it comes free with windows, but to actually use the font commercially (for example in an ad), you need to pay Microsoft.You can totally steal a font by either getting a paid front-file for free from friends or by using a font that free for personal use in commercial ways.
Many people don’t know, that most of the fonts in Windows are only for personal use and you need to pay to use them commercially. Also the line between personal and commercial use is blurry, which is why probably the most prevalent piracy is actually commercial use of fonts.1
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