Fuck the foundries
the permission table he is talking about sounds like the copy-prevention bit in PDFs.  it's up to the reader software to enforce it, and since PDF is mostly an "open" specification, many free readers simply ignore it or allow the user to override it.<p>but how are fonts any different than stock images?  a designer/photographer creates a work, then licenses it to end users that are entitled to use it.  if you have a license to a stock image, you can use it on your website.  i can copy it and use it on my site, but that would be illegal.  how is this different than fonts?  if you have a license to use a font, use it.  i can copy it and use it on my site, but that would be illegal.<p>sites using stock images illegally are often sued or fined and there are a number of companies that offer services to find these illegally used images, even ones that have been resized or altered.<p>with fonts it seems like it would be even easier to automate the process of crawling websites looking for a particular font file and checking the licensing of it, especially since the font files wouldn't be altered.