Melissa Lewis (@melissa.news)
bsky.app
TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/67480/piracy-it-s-a-crime-psa

While cloned fonts may not be illegal, it certainly wasn’t in the spirit of the campaign.

The music was definitely used illegally though.

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    even more so if you think about the newer ones recording their environment, the whole neighborhood etc, with cameras and/or radar/lidar