'Håkon's "free font" technique does not introduce this problem, nor does it make it any worse in my opinion.'
It does make it worse - previously, there was no reason to make proprietary fonts available on the Web unless you were (a) the vendor, or (b) deliberately infringing copyright. Håkon's technique gives people a good reason to put proprietary font files online, and hence introduces a new third class of users, each of whom might or might not be using the font legitimately.
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'Håkon's "free font" technique does not introduce this problem, nor does it make it any worse in my opinion.'
It does make it worse - previously, there was no reason to make proprietary fonts available on the Web unless you were (a) the vendor, or (b) deliberately infringing copyright. Håkon's technique gives people a good reason to put proprietary font files online, and hence introduces a new third class of users, each of whom might or might not be using the font legitimately.