Infamous 'You Wouldn't Steal A Car' Anti-Piracy PSA May Have Illegally Used An Unlicensed Font

"You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy ads may have used a stolen font

The ad first appeared in cinemas in 2004 as a joint production of the UK's Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and the Motion Picture Association of America...

Infamous 'You Wouldn't Steal A Car' Anti-Piracy PSA May Have Illegally Used An Unlicensed Font

You Wouldn't Steal A Car from MPAA anti-piracy PSA The entertainment industry made a concerted effort to combat the piracy that became a hot topic of conversation toward the start of the 2000s, and the MPAA produced a PSA that’s intimately familiar to most people who went to see a movie during that era. However, that spot may have actually featured a font that also skirted the law. Most people were still getting acquainted with the internet towa…

Font used in famous anti-piracy campaign was pirated

analysis of the font shows it to be a replica of a commercial typeface designed by Just van Rossum--which is to say, pirated

In TorrentFreak they tell how they have been able to investigate the irony that the "piracy is a crime" campaign used a pirate typography. It’s something like saying “Nothing teaches better about intellectual property than violating the rights of others discreetly in the process” or “Bits don’t steal, atoms don’t steal either... the sources, well, that’s it.” The announcement, broadcast on television, cinemas and insaltably included in many DVDs…

Did the Famous Anti-Piracy Ad of the 2000s Commit Piracy? - theGeek.games

The only way to describe the case of the ad, which is particularly well known in the English-speaking world, is “how ironic”…   There’s an infamous anti-piracy ad from 2004 that we might even recognize, even though it’s in English. “You wouldn’t steal a car,” it says, along with a handheld camera shot of someone picking a lock. The ad then switches to another kind of theft, which puts it on par with downloading Shrek 3. It dramatized piracy, but…

The 'You Wouldn't Steal a Car' Campaign Used a Pirated Font

The iconic "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" anti-piracy campaign, which dramatically equated digital piracy with physical theft, appears to have used a pirated font in its own materials. New evidence indicates the campaign utilized "XBAND Rough," a free clone of the commercial "FF Confidential" font, whic...