As Torrent Freak points out, the font in the PSA appears to be FF Confidential, created by Just Van Rossum in 1992. And people have long assumed that the people behind the ad used that font.

You Wouldn’t Steal a Font? A legendary anti-piracy ad from the early 2000s has made headlines after it supposedly used a pirated font.

Yup - social media sleuths and typography nerds united when a Bluesky user named Rib did some digging and uncovered the font ...

Bible designs tend to be variations on a theme—tissue-thin paper and unforgiving font sizes, owing to the 783,000 words ...

Lyft designed a senior-friendly app with larger fonts and simplified features—but why are these usability improvements locked ...

In an incredibly ironic twist, the font used in the 'You Wouldn't Steal A...' anti-piracy ad may have pirated the font used ...

Bluesky user Rib extracted the fonts used in one of the campaign's old PDFs and discovered the pirated font Xband-Rough was used instead of Mr van Rossum's licensed font FF Confidential.

Bluesky user Rib extracted the fonts used in one of the campaign's old PDFs and discovered the pirated font Xband-Rough was used instead of Mr van Rossum's licensed font FF Confidential. Sky News was ...

It is 6 a.m., and the Old City of Hyderabad is slowly stirring ... where people walked around exploring and understanding fonts, this is her attempt to understand the city better.

The "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" PSA is still remembered by many people old enough to recall its 2004 ... Now, decades later, it appears that the font used in the commercials was itself stolen.