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Originally Posted by theducks
Hitch (and others)
Out of all the e-books sold, How many of those that were bought by users who even KNEW there were fonts embedded, let alone how to extract them?
Maybe 1/4 of the MR members?
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Ducks? I don't think you're understanding my point. It doesn't matter
how many. What matters is that it
could be done. And if one guy does it, he can then put the font up, on any
number of those illicit font-sharing sites and all that. It doesn't matter if you "give" a copy of a font you've licensed to one person or 100 people; you're still transferring a piece of software to someone else sans license. Right? And that one person you innocently gave it to might turn around and give it to those 100 or 1000 more, no?
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How many of those sold, don't even know about MR?
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Knowing about MR is
hardly a prerequisite to copyright infringement or stealing software, is it, Ducky? I'm not quite following your legal segue here.
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My gripe with the foundry's, is cost to use in a e-book.
Now compare that with Windows (which includes many font faces)? Their per/font price is outrageous. (The entire Face, is absurdly priced)
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Which "entire Face" is absurdly priced? You mentioned Windows, which owns myriad fonts (as does Apple), but not the font or face to which you refer.
In terms of the foundries,
of course they charge a lot for embedding, It has significant risk for them, as discussed in my last few posts. When a font is embedded into an eBook, the likelihood that the font will be misappropriated by some third party is
significantly higher than when it's not. Naturally, as when it's not embedded, there's zero risk. When it is embedded, the risk is arithmetically greater. By definition, having moved up from zero to "something."
Hitch