Apostrophe:
A couple months ago I found another "2000 fonts" CD at a computer store here in Toronto, bought it and found that it had the majority of the lab fonts on it. I clamped up on it and didn't tell anyone, since I figured it wouldn't do much good to spread bad news that nothing can be done about. But during the past 3 weeks I found 4 more CDs with the same story.
What really pisses me off is the fact that I stumbled upon them by mistake, going to computer stores to buy equipment for the new office, and I see them stacked among other CDs that have nothing but shareware programs on them, being sold for $10. Same old song and dance... people don't even bother to change copyright notices or anything; they just download the fonts and go straight to press with the CDs. All the contact addresses on those CDs are post box office addresses in Buffalo, San Francisco, Phoenix, and New York. So there's no way to get hold of those people without spending a fortune to track them down. This is sickening.
I really have no idea how to deal with this sort of situation. I get emails from lab fans asking me about the future of it, and I have no idea what to tell them. I don't want to be uptight with a hard line about how we're being ripped off and all, but at the same time it really hurts to see the work of the lab's designers, especially Graham's stuff, go to benefit some asshole with a download-and-burn fetish. I'm really thinking about shutting down the lab now. It's really painful to say this, but I really am thinking about shutting it down.