@Rib FWIW, technically speaking, you can’t really copyright a digital font in that way; to say it was ‘pirated’ isn’t really true. cloned? sure. fully legal? yeah, pretty much

the way font copyright works is that you can copyright the software but not the actual design of the type. in this case, “FF Confidential” is copyrighted as software. If I were to trace it, or make a very very close imitation of it, and then made a digital font out of it myself, it would, in all likelihood, be in the clear

@Rib things become a little murkier when you throw in the concept of font licenses, which are still fairly new (all things considered)

there might be one case of precedent - involving Hasbro and the MLP brand, of all things https://torrentfreak.com/my-little-pony-sued-for-using-a-pirated-font-160125/ - but even then, the smoking gun in that case was the MLP website’s stylesheet explicitly referring and naming to the exact font that was being alleged