[OpenFontLibrary] horrible, horrendous, awful, abominable, atrocious, crummy project idea

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>> That would be bad.
>
>I think "bad" qualifies as the  understatement of the century.  More
>like "horrible, horrendous,  awful, abominable, atrocious, crummy".
>Point made?
 
Creating a site which shows very large rasterized versions of  each glyph 
of all fonts regardless of copyright status could have uses  which are both 
beneficial to the common good such as enabling a site like OFLB  to realize 
the latest upload puts a copyrighted font on their hands, but of  course some 
dastardly person could trace the outlines from copyrighted fonts to  create 
a cloned font. Doing that would also be a rather large project which  would 
require many "librarians". I think it would be a worthwhile and legal to  
do project, but on the other hand, it would have to somehow keep  people from 
countries where typefaces are copyrightable from visiting  the site(not 
really possible). Also, there is this little teensy thing  called ethics which 
gnaws at me while thinking about this idea. 
 
FF
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