Re: [dvd-discuss] How many bits is a technical protection measure?

[microlenz(at)earthlink.net]

Yes but a NOT professional printer has PAID for the ability to use the font. 
Privately it matter not to me WHat font I use for most of what I write <I 
prefer Times Roman> but when I create something with a font, I want that font 
used when I publish it albeit to the limited distribution that I do. I have 
paid for it. Personally I have no need to use that font ONLY when I distribute 
it to others and I paid to do so-even when the printer is acting as my agent. 
In the electronic age, printers are acting more as agents as they take camera 
ready copy.

The whole notion that one can distribute a font for someone to use in private 
but not for public distribution of the work is so stupid that I wonder what 
disease affects their mind other than SchiessKopf Syndrome.





On 23 Apr 2002 at 21:14, Charles Ballowe wrote:

> As far as I can tell, the only people who actually buy fonts are professional
> publishers who do physical print work. Sometimes newspapers (like college or
> high-school, not professional ones that do their own printing) will send their
> document to the printer and be using fonts that the printer doesn't have.
> Using embedded fonts prevents this problem.
> 
> What really bothers me is that I walk past the building that houses the 
> lawyers responsible for filing this suit every day. I just wish there was
> an appropriate way to re-educate this particular lawyer.
> 
> -charlie
> 
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 06:34:42PM -0700, microlenz@earthlink.net wrote:
> > Oh...but it has the POTENTIAL for circumvention by others. I've never figured 
> > out what the purpose of unembeddable fonts was.<any ideas...other than the 
> > usual greed >  Assuming that I own a set legally, I bought it for use in 
> > communication. So if I can't embedd it into a document where somebody else can
> > use it it it's not serving the purpose I bought it. 
> > 
> > So....before the DCMA had to save the world from screaming hoards of hackers 
> > wanting pillage the intellectual property of Hollywierd..now it's protecting 
> > the world from font thieves....the framers of the DMCA really had SFB.
> >