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by ballenf 2894 days ago
Side question -- do/could type foundries find pirate companies by looking at IP addresses using paid fonts without a license? Hardest part would be linking paid licenses to IP addresses, making individual unpaid usage harder to nail down. But if a company with dozens or hundreds of users at a single IP address all had a particular font installed, that IP was linkable to the company, and company didn't have a license, wouldn't that be pretty damning evidence?

Typeface piracy is otherwise pretty difficult to detect isn't it? Is it part of normal enterprise asset tracking / inventory systems?