An iconic piracy advertising may have used pirate font

This is one of the most iconic PSAs for a certain breed of millennium that has downloaded free movies and music in the mid-2000s. Piracy advertising “You wouldn’t steal a car” is stuck in countless brains because of its disgusting music, its stupid message and its distinctive style. But what if this style is a pirate? This is the statement made by people on social media who have done a little digging.

TV advertising that is available on YouTubePremiered in 2004 and if you have not seen it for a while, it is worth strolling on the memory bar.

The ad included animated graphics that read things like “You wouldn’t steal a car” and “you wouldn’t steal a bag” and “you wouldn’t steal TV”, all of them in a unique font. Then we come to the real message of the ad, with the message “You would not steal DVD” eventually followed by “Downloading Pirate Movies is theft.”

The font is so unique that PSA is often parodied in a way that you can immediately notice and shows a meme on social media all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS6Ncgeyszc

AS Torrent He points out that the PSA font seems to be a confidential created by Just Van Rossum in 1992 and people have long accepted that the people behind the ad have used this font.

But recently online Sleuths have discovered by looking at the old campaign materials that the real -use font is called XBand Rough. It looks just like FF confidential as it was illegally cloned in this font, but XBand Rough was free. And thus it was a pirate version of a font that people had to pay for.

“Of course, it would be funny if the piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirate font, so I went and quickly found PDF from the campaign website with the built -in font,” the social media user @RIB explainedS

Torrent Freak has confirmed that the font in the campaign’s materials is rough, but there is still the possibility of the font used in the television ads themselves is a licensed version, purchased and paid. Unfortunately, there is no way to check this.

But the simple fact that the campaign materials – PDF files accessible to the internet archive machine, since the website is no longer active – they have definitely used pirate font, is quite fun on their own.

Torrent They even talked to the font creator who did not know if the font used in the advertisement was licensed, but found the situation “funny”.