The dramatic adverts, which compared pirating films to stealing cars, handbags and televisions, became a piece of pop culture history, with spoofs spawned for years afterwards.

A famous anti-piracy ad campaign from the 2000s used a font that may have been pirated, according to social media users and ...

Remember that iconic anti-piracy ad from the early 2000s? The one that dramatically declared, “You wouldn’t steal a car,” as if downloading Shrek 2 was on par ...

A font used in a famous anti-piracy campaign from the early ’00s was allegedly also pirated. The ad, which appeared in cinemas and on DVDs around the world from 2004, compared pirating films to ...

one of the most infamous anti-piracy campaigns from two decades ago may have included a font that was, in essence, stolen. The "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" PSA is still remembered by many people old ...

and cars, and it frequently appeared before films in theaters and on commercial DVDs. Now, TorrentFreak points out that the font used in the ads may have been pirated. Instead of using the ...

That was the gist of the infamous "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" anti-piracy campaign from the Motion Picture Association of America during the mid-2000s. But questions are now being asked about just how ...

The dramatic campaign compared pirating films to stealing cars ... Rossum's licensed font FF Confidential. Sky News was able to replicate this process and found the same results. Image: Sky ...