Additional anecdote about Monotype pricing policies:

https://old.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/1jqqlm6/mon...

And after digging through the comments... Yup it's private equity again. PE buyouts should be considered criminal fraud.

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sneak 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Who are they defrauding? Everything being done here is legal. There is no victim.

	▲	otikik 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The commons. They profit by making everyone else worse off. We should have a specific name for that sort of economical behavior. “Leeches”?
	▲	inglor_cz 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It is a nasty aftereffect of the copyright law expanding like cancer. I would gladly go back to the older 14+14 system, even though I have nontrivial income from royalties. In my opinion, copyright should motivate people to create new things, not one cash cow that they then will milk for eternity.

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yupyupyups 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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