Typekit elaborates on the security measures that it uses to prevent shady miscreants from stealing fonts:

Defense in depth is an old military strategy and an apt analogy for what we’re doing. Armies would put barrier after barrier between them and the enemy. Each trench or string of barbed wire was relatively easy to get past, but each one slowed them down and tired them out a little. Dozens and dozens of these small hurdles would eventually wear them down.

We’ve put up a few hurdles of our own. Our intent is only to discourage casual misuse and to make it clear that taking fonts from Typekit is an explicit and intentional act.

Typekit understands that DRM isn’t the solution to preventing copyright, something that even the RIAA has learned. Smart people are behind this company—if this had the backing of just a few more foundries, this would be the hands-down winner in the webfont debate.

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