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While cloned fonts may not be illegal, it certainly wasn’t in the spirit of the campaign.

The music was definitely used illegally though.

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I am going to download an entire car the moment it is technically possible and feasible to do so with a sufficiently large 3d printer. I don't even care if cars are still a thing by that point, I will do so simply out of principle, to be able to say "Yes I absolutely would download a car, I just did!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean the original anti-piracy ad said you wouldn't steal a car, because they were trying to equate digital piracy with physical theft, it's the meme edits that say you wouldn't download a car

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I will copyright some schematics so everyone can enjoy the thrill of piracy to really drive the point home.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You could just download it, no need to actually print the thing for no reason

I would buy a larger drive to do that though, just to say I did

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

How much ram do i need to download first?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

in which case there are already open source cars out there to download.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Ooh, do you know of any good ones? I wanna download a car!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Yes I absolutely would download a car

This campaign joins D.A.R.E. as one of the most ironically unsuccessful campaigns of all time.