The infamous 2004 anti-piracy campaign advert "Piracy. It's a crime." reportedly used a pirated font.
A Bluesky user managed to extract the font from the campaign's old PDF files and discovered that the font the campaign used was "XBand-Rough" a popular pirated version of FF Confidential, a licenseable font created by Just van Rossum.
"I had known about the 'illegal clone' of my font before, but I didn't know that that was the one used in the campaign.
"The campaign has always had the wrong tone, which (to me) explains the level of fun that has been had at its expense. The irony of it having used a pirated font is just precious," van Rossum told Sky News.
The famous advert was run by the Federation Against Copyright Theft and the Motion Picture Association of America between 2004 and 2008, appearing on many commercial DVD discs before the menu and being unskippable, as well as playing in film theatres before the film.
The advert became an iconic piece of pop-culture history with many spoofs and parodies replicating the advert's absurd tone spreading around the internet, with even British sitcom IT Crowd doing it's own spoof of it.
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