This here is pretty great: This fellow bought a font from Letterheads, and it managed to get uploaded to a file sharing site. He refused to get it taken down, so they want to charge him for the extra downloads that have now been generated. This is a real case of piracy hitting home because the designer that made the font takes home 70% of the sales there, so this is directly affecting him. As the economy becomes more specialized and direct delivery of media becomes a reality, piracy will start to hurt the little guy more and more. Letterheads has had to up the price on that font to pay off the outstanding fee (and get that money back to the artist):
“In order to recoup these losses, LHF Garner must now sell for $39 (32% increase). $9.50 of each sale will go to pay down Randy’s bill. When Randy’s bill has been paid in full ($944), LHF Garner will revert back to it’s original price of $29.50. Of course, if anyone would like to purchase a single copy of LHF Garner for $1000… well, that would work too.”
Oh yeah, and they published Randy’s email address. I like it: Vigilante font justice.
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