A famous anti-piracy campaign from the early 2000s is in the spotlight after it emerged the font used in the ads was pirated.
The iconic campaign, which played before films in cinemas and on DVDs between 2004 and 2009, compared pirating films to stealing a car, a handbag or a television, and told viewers: "You wouldn’t steal a car" and "You wouldn’t steal a handbag".
In an ironic twist, social media users have since worked out that the font itself "XBand-Rough" was an illegally cloned version of "FF Confidential", designed in 1992 by a Dutch typeface designer.
The font's designer, Just Van Rossum, told the website TorrentFreak he thought the revelation was hilarious.
“I knew my font was used for the campaign and that a pirated clone named XBand-Rough existed.
"I did not know that the campaign used XBand-Rough and not FF Confidential, though. So this fact is new to me, and I find it hilarious”.
The advert spawned numerous memes and spoof versions, including one which featured on The IT Crowd in 2007.
