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[Suggestion] Downloading Fonts
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RE: [Suggestion] Downloading Fonts
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Originally posted by jod.drummer
As for the commercial fonts, well the fonts could be locked somehow so you can only see it in MSN but you can't use them.
Unfortunatly, that is not possible.
Also in the legal sense it is not possible...

For starters, the font file format doesn't have such a setting.
But even if they had something like this, such a 'lock' should be applied by the operating system itself in that case, not by the used programs.

Moreover, if they had such a setting and the OS had such a restriction system build in, then it would also be illegal to use them in Messenger anyways (because the user hasn't payed for its use, the contact did -assuming the contact got hold of the font in a legal way in the first place-)

So, nope, not possible, both in the physical way and in the legal way. And the legality of this is also the reason why something like this will probably never be implemented in Windows Live Messenger or Messenger Plus!.

This post was edited on 08-26-2010 at 06:27 AM by CookieRevised.
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[Suggestion] Downloading Fonts - by jod.drummer on 08-19-2010 at 05:26 PM
RE: [Suggestion] Downloading Fonts - by Lou on 08-19-2010 at 05:45 PM
RE: [Suggestion] Downloading Fonts - by jod.drummer on 08-19-2010 at 05:56 PM
RE: [Suggestion] Downloading Fonts - by Matti on 08-19-2010 at 06:14 PM
RE: [Suggestion] Downloading Fonts - by jod.drummer on 08-23-2010 at 12:33 AM
RE: [Suggestion] Downloading Fonts - by CookieRevised on 08-26-2010 at 06:19 AM


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