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Font Company Wielding DMCA Against Bit-Flipping

Posted by timothy on from the mirror-mirror dept.

Roundeye writes: "Seems that AGFA Monotype is trying to stop Tom Murphy from distributing his embed tool. According to the lawyers, the pair of bits in a TrueType font which specify how a font should be embedded constitute a DMCA-worthy access control device. Tom's standing up to them because, 'Embedding bits do nothing to keep consumers from copying fonts' and 'Since the enactment of the DMCA, I have only ever run embed on fonts for which I own the copyright." He's even got his own haiku version of the software..."

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  1. In Other News by shepd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Non-Parity memory outlawed due to the risk of alpha particles bit flipping true-type fonts!

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    1. Re:In Other News by steve_l · · Score: 5, Funny

      also, Ansi C++ 2002 draft released; xor "^" opcode removed after DMCA threats due to its potential use in bit-flipping and decryption algorithms. Future versions of the x86 product line will be changed to make the xor opcode a ring-0 instruction only, not for use by unapproved applications.

  2. OFFS by mizhi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh For Fuck's Sake.

    What about hex-editors then?

    What about sed? I'll be you could come up with a nifty program to twiddle some bits in the same manner.

    And for those lawyers, I've got a couple of bits they can twiddle; my balls.

    I hope Tom wins.

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