ActivityPub Viewer

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Its spots ran before movies in theaters and on home media from 2004–2008. One shows a teen girl clicking a big green &quot;Download&quot; button on a website promising &quot;Feature Films&quot;—but when she does so, large white text jumps onto a black backdrop: &quot;You wouldn&#39;t steal a car.&quot; The text looks like it was applied with spray paint and a stencil.</p><p>What font is this? The site Fonts in Use suggests it was FF Confidential, designed by Just van Rossum in 1992.</p><p>Melissa Lewis, a reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting, noticed Fonts in Use&#39;s identification, and she remembered that noted &quot;computer person&quot; Parker Higgins had been digging into the &quot;very similar (font) Xband Rough.&quot; Lewis contacted van Rossum, who confirmed that Xband Rough was a clone of FF Confidential. &quot;It&#39;s just been around forever and is ubiquitous,&quot; Lewis writes.</p><p>Picking up on these inquiries, a tinkerer going by the handle &quot;Rib&quot; then dug into a PDF from the anti-piracy campaign&#39;s archived website. A tool called FontForge indicated that the notable &quot;spray-painted&quot; font used in the PDF was, in fact, XBand Rough.</p><p>Van Rossum—who is the brother of Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language—told TorrentFreak that he knew the anti-piracy campaign had used his font, and he knew that the Xband Rough clone existed. He did not know that the industry group had used the knock-off version in its campaign, but he found it &quot;hilarious.&quot; Van Rossum, reached for comment by Ars, declined to comment.&quot;</p><p><a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-anti-piracy-campaign-may-have-used-pirated-fonts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0</span><span class=\"invisible\">4/you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-anti-piracy-campaign-may-have-used-pirated-fonts/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Piracy\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Piracy</span></a> <a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Copyright\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Copyright</span></a> <a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FileSharing\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>FileSharing</span></a> <a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Typography\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Typography</span></a> <a href=\"https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GraphicDesign\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>GraphicDesign</span></a></p>", "contentMap": { "pt": "<p>&quot;The anti-piracy campaign was … not exactly subtle. 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