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Originally Posted by GERGE
I believe typeface piracy is as big a problem as the e-book piracy.
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This is about the only sentence in your post with which I can agree.
Both are essentially trivial. Provide the goods in a convenient form and at a reasonable price, and people won't bother with unauthorised copies.
Unauthorised personal use of typefaces is probably widespread, because typefaces are priced for commercial use.
Consider, for example, a nice new body text font like
Isolde(TM). £129.60 for me to be able to use the family of 4 faces on my desktop machine (and up to 4 other computers).
Very, very few home users will pay that sort of money. I might consider paying up to £5 for such a family of fonts for personal use. But no such license is available.
Ideally people will use the open/free alternatives instead of piracy. Whether that actually happens, I don't know.