How do you get caught stealing fonts?

Question

I don't actually steal fonts, I usually pay for them or use free fonts

but I was wondering how can you get caught if you just find ways to download fonts for free that you are supposed to pay for.

Answer 1

as long as its not commercial, use this site

Answer 2

Just like any other for-profit media on the internet, purchasable fonts are theoretical property and thus the property of the creator and illegal to download without paying for them first. Similar to music or files, these downloads can be tracked by sites and by government agencies and if the person being watched has accumulated a significant amount of unpaid property, they are arrested.

That being said, it would be very difficult to track something as insignificant as fonts. Additionally, of the people who download material illegally, maybe .40 percent are actually arrested, and those are normally the actual providers. It would be near-impossible to be arrested for simply downloading fonts.