‘You wouldn’t steal a car’ anti-piracy campaign reportedly used a pirated font in its commercial (via Sky News) - ThreadSky

culturecrave.co • 50 days ago

‘You wouldn’t steal a car’ anti-piracy campaign reportedly used a pirated font in its commercial

(via Sky News)

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dorianscott.bsky.social•50 days ago

"You Wouldn't Steal A Car"

Those car thieves in San Francisco:

properdave.seeks.quest•50 days ago

chamosan.bsky.social•49 days ago

“You wouldn’t steal thousands of artworks of living artists to train you AI and take profit for your own while they lose their jobs.”
Piracy goes just in one way… as always

duckyc.bsky.social•50 days ago

madimadas.bsky.social•50 days ago

Apparently the music was stolen as well.

In both cases, the agreement was for it to be shown once at a festival or something, but instead got used on DVD's everywhere.

culturecrave.co•50 days ago

🔗

https://news.sky.com/story/you-wouldnt-steal-a-font-famous-anti-piracy-campaign-may-have-used-pirated-typeface-13357462

halonews.bsky.social•50 days ago

*When the people stating 'You Wouldn't Steal A Car' steal your car anyways*
#Halo

gonzoabsurdist.bsky.social•50 days ago

You wouldn't steal a font

monkeyboy1337.bsky.social•50 days ago

Or would you?

otterlynoah.bsky.social•50 days ago

Isn't Sky News also the same organization that insulted the first person to ever "beat" Tetris? https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-67885320

hapexamandios.bsky.social•50 days ago

Better life goal than reading an inane list of stuff that happened but spun to the right.

Sky news - news for people who don't like reality.

pixelverseart.bsky.social•50 days ago

The font was pirated this whole time? That's ironic!

fluxdreams.bsky.social•50 days ago

Ironic

agentsmiz.bsky.social•50 days ago

captaindoomsday.bsky.social•50 days ago

Well I wouldn’t steal a Tesla anyway

l0rdliberty.bsky.social•50 days ago

That's been known for a while

redbeardau.bsky.social•50 days ago

So they stole the music (previously reported) and the font? Classic do as I say not as I do move.

whadatboynameis.bsky.social•50 days ago

We are living in The Onion timeline

rayray15234.bsky.social•50 days ago

I used the piracy to destroy the piracy

maxarthey.bsky.social•50 days ago

lovelivefestival.bsky.social•50 days ago

YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THE PIRATES, NOT JOIN THEM!

lalolalahere.bsky.social•50 days ago

Ah, yes...

Sweet, sweet irony

joshcolletta.bsky.social•50 days ago

Had to be done.

nikdej.bsky.social•50 days ago

Lmao ironic

joekabye25.bsky.social•50 days ago

stubz.bsky.social•50 days ago

They also alegedly stole the music featured in the commercial.

properdave.seeks.quest•50 days ago

I read an investigation into this claim.
It wasn't this ad, it was a different anti piracy ad.

papahrf.bsky.social•50 days ago

Also, I would absolutely illegally download a car if I could

lightshadowoyx.bsky.social•50 days ago

ironic

perkilator.bsky.social•50 days ago

gus75.bsky.social•50 days ago

funny how piracy was a crime back in the day when ordinary people did it, but now that big corporations are at it, it’s not really piracy (thinking of AI training and how they trawl the internet to train it)

jmeush.bsky.social•50 days ago

But also, I would steal a car. That shits insured. They’ll be fine.

wastelandchef.bsky.social•50 days ago

Do as I say but not as I do

simplynonsense.bsky.social•50 days ago

Lol, not sure how they figured that out but it's pretty funny if true.

coisbackeljau.bsky.social•50 days ago

Checked a pdf from the organisation and found a pirated font instead of the original. It's true

simplynonsense.bsky.social•50 days ago

Just found the article. Crazy stuff.

nagi159.bsky.social•50 days ago

this is old news

monkeyboy1337.bsky.social•50 days ago

https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg

kevin-78213.bsky.social•50 days ago

Dammit!! You beat me to that reference! Lol I love The IT Crowd!

lkwarm.bsky.social•50 days ago

evilgirlthing.bsky.social•17 days ago

This had the best effect on australia cuz we r spiteful af and heard "you wouldn't steal" as a challenge. Everyone went "yeah we would, fucking watch me cunt" and piracy website usage went up dramatically for ages.