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How to pirate a font
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this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
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If you even know what the hidden part(s) is, is the problem.
Maybe is in the metadata as someone pointed out earlier, or it could be an otherwise unused ASCII char that looks different for each user who licensed it when printed out, sort of like a qr code as a single ASCII char.
Or it could be that they simply just check filename, file size and/or md5, all of which can be easily changed.
Files have formats. Anything "hidden" here is destroyed by conversion to a different font format before redistribution.
There is no way of controlling this from the authors side without some sort of DRM.