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

[Charles Ballowe <hangman(at)steelballs.org>]

The market for fonts is developed around a model where documents are not
distributed in electronic form. For electronic distribution, non-embedable
fonts make no sense.

Of course, those 2 bits don't prevent somebody from taking the font file
and dropping it in their fonts directory. They just prevent it from being
embedded in a document. You could still copy the ttf file to your receipient,
but that would be direct infringement - but not circumvention.


On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:25:36PM -0700, microlenz@earthlink.net wrote:
> 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.