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Online font use is extremely public. Wouldn't it be easy to just license fonts per domain and then crawl to see who's using it without a license?

Dynamic web fonts are the most enforceable copyright there is. With a reasonable fee structure this could be a huge new source of revenue for font designers, and a big new tool for web designers.



Right. "Hide the font" and "use the font" exclude each other, when the name of the font has to be right there in the style-sheet!


the name of the font has to be right there in the style-sheet

With @font-face declarations, actually, you can name a font whatever you want, and point it at a file on your server that is named whatever you want.




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