[mcrider]

I've been doing this for years -- Its a PIA dealing with each font foundry's DRM system and getting it to work on my local dev environment. When I go live, I deal with it but its also such a hassle to get clients to pay for a font, give me the required info to use the foundry's DRM, etc. I bet if a foundry used an honor system (give fonts away for free, charge a per-site license for commercial use) they'd still make a profit and not have to deal with complex DRM systems (and make it more likely for designers and developers to use their fonts).

[ryukafalz]

Wait, this is a thing?

If I were ever asked to install some DRM to render a font I'd nuke that thing from my system in a heartbeat.

[mcrider]

I use the term DRM loosely (possibly incorrectly!). What I mean is that most font foundries make you include a CSS or JS file that only loads the requested fonts for a domain or domains you specify in their backend.