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Famous Anti-Piracy Ad Campaign from the 2000s May Have Used a Pirated Font: Reports

A famous anti-piracy ad campaign from the 2000s used a font that may have been pirated, according to social media users and several outlets, including Vice, PC World and Sky News. The ads — which appeared in movie theaters and on DVDs and compared pirating media to stealing cars, handbags and televisions — allegedly used pirated typeface that was originally created by designer Just van Rossum.

A famous anti-piracy ad campaign from the 2000s used a typeface that may have been pirated, according to social media users and various outlets. One Bluesky user extracted the text used and discovered that it was allegedly a pirated version of van Rossum’s licensed font FF Confidential. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPA) and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, which both worked together on the ad, did not respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.

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