The infamous anti-DVD-piracy PSA turns out to have used a "pirated" font. That's deliciously ironic, but is it the most ironic case of font piracy of all time?
Let's unpack a few cases from the long shared history of type design and piracy and find out.
00:00 - You wouldn't steal an iconic grunge font
01:00 - The original font: FF Confidential
02:14 - The pirate font: XBand Rough
02:56 - Can a font even be copyrighted? It's complicated.
05:10 - Grand Theft Typo, a.k.a. the Bitstream Heist
08:58 -CD-ROM: The original slop era
11:24 - Pirates of Lead (but in Latin for extra pretentiousness)
13:06 - Type Crimes... History Rhymes
18:49 - Commerce and design can never be separated