Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by phkahler 426 days ago
>> Either the service can detect you pulling a font for a domain that isn't paying for it...

Is that really a thing? Markup in a web page tells how to display the text. Saying "use this font over here on this other server" seems fair game on some level. Might not be on another level, but it's technically the end user downloading a file that's publicly available on some server.
2 comments
haneefmubarak 426 days ago
AIUI the font vendor has a list of customers, each of whom are required to provide an exact list of the domains they will host it on and the domains they will display it on. So the crawlers, upon identifying a matching font, simply have to check that both the displaying and hosting domains match.
link
hackingonempty 426 days ago
In the USA at least, contributory and vicarious infringement are a thing. Grokster knowingly directed their users to infringing material so they picked up secondary liability.
link