If I could steal a car by downloading it over the internet without depriving the original owner of it and with similarly low risk of getting caught/prosecuted for it I would absolutely steal a car. I wouldn't steal a font tho, that's just beyond the pale. :P
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My eighty year-old parents have "borrowed" my car for a year.
I, too, would download one if I could.
And so would they I suppose. It crosses generations!
Sligthly off topic but I think this actually may be some kind of Mandela effect, because I think a large number of people actually think the commercial said 'You wouldn't download a car' because of all the memes but it actually said 'You wouldn't steal a car'
I've heard that too, but I saw the original commercials and remember it as 'you wouldn't steal a car'.
Huh, I thought it was called the Mandala effect
I mean, just think about the meaning. "You wouldn't download a car" doesn't make any sense lol
I haven’t been this shocked since I found out the original McGruff voice actor was arrested with a bunch of guns and weed plants
It looks like I'm using an adblocker you say? Well, I have to agree there!
Short of being able to actually read the article, "free my mans he didn't do nothing." So what he had weed and guns including destructive devices according to the ATF, did he hurt anyone or was he just mega fucking cool? If nobody was harmed and he didn't have a manifesto, the worst crimes he's guilty of are "possessing metal we say no to" and "smoking herbs we say no to," I.E "not shit."
Now, if he did hurt someone or threaten his wife or some shit, then yeah, lock him up and give me his guns and weed for safe keeping.
Wasn't there also a problem with the music rights?
The thing about the parasitic class is that they are not obligated to be logically congruent... They are always right.
These standards only apply to the wage slave class.
Didn't the commercial use unlicensed music too? I feel like I remember there being a lawsuit for unpaid royalties or something.
Edit: Yup!
Edit 2: I'm an idiot who didn't fully read what I posted.
From what I read that actually wasn't true , at least not for the 'you wouldn't steal a car' (or more officially: 'Piracy. It's a crime.') clip.
Edit: Yup!
Your link claims the exact opposite.
Yeah. I didn't fully read the article lol. Thats on me.
Funny, but fonts can't be copyrighted.
They say the ad used XBand Rough, an "illegal clone".
If you redraw an entire font, pixel for pixel, manually, it is not an illegal clone. This happens all the time. The creators of the ad just used a copy that was free.
So ironic, yes, illegal, no.
pixel for pixel
I don't think it was a bitmap font.
If you copy a font, bitmap or not, you're doing it as a pixel map on a pixelated monitor.
most fonts nowadays are vector based, so they aren’t really created with pixels :)
Vector is still pixel maps. Open an SVG in a text editor 😉
The font of Theseus!
I love our spiderman meme culture where everyone is pointing their fingers at each other accusing them of stealing their idea/song/art/etc.
I can never understand how people carry so much water for corporations who could care less about them. We are supposed to rearrange our entire society around their revenue streams.
The hypocrisy is unreal. I have been successfully holding onto my final shred of hope in the goodness of humankind, but this tips the scale. I give up. Now I only have despair in the badness of humunkind. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to drown my sorrow by bingeing on Napster, Scour, BitTorrent, newsgroups, and Gnutella.
I'm just waiting to be able to download a house.
With VR, you kinda can.
You wouldn't download a bear
Fuck you. You don’t know what I’m into!
I'd rather download a bear than download a strange man, that's for sure.
It sucks that today, this message would hit hard with theaters of people cheering and clapping.
In fairness, I poisoned one food item in every music executive’s house as punishment for them being thieves.
I forgot about Dre but I was fairly comprehensive.
Did you forget, or you just act like you forgot about Dre?
Didn't they already get busted for not licensing the music?