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Little Big Adventure 2

That’s fair. It’s not actually awful, I just didn’t enjoy its mechanics (and it was wildly unstable too).

But Discworld Noir is dreadful!

Also it has Vines being corrupt!

The article contradicts your point:

Legally, there is no copyright infringement here. Typefaces can’t be protected by copyright in the United States and only enjoy limited protection elsewhere.

So whether the letter forms are identical makes no difference because there is no copyright protection.

Based on my reading, you’re not wrong, but the question is about typefaces, not fonts. Fonts are software for using typefaces in a digital medium. I seem to recall that as a result one can use a font to print out a typeface, scan it in, reimplement it from the image to create a new font and that’s then considered a separate font for the purposes of copyright law.

…which sounds insane, so perhaps that loophole has been closed since I read it.

When I’m trying to focus I tend to listen to System of a Down or Rammstein. The rest of the time it tends to be pop music from the radio (usually BBC Radio 1) or lofi.

Data corruption is one thing, but calling it “noise” is tremendously misleading because that’s such an issue when digitising from an analogue source. I can’t say I’ve ever experienced it due to the drive, but I have experienced it with scratched CDs. I’ve been using optical drives since the '90s and it’s so rare that bringing it up is really muddying the waters.

With regards to sourcing audio, the emphasis was on “easiest”. Most people haven’t had optical drives in their computers in a long time. Ultimately they’d probably be better off finding something on Wikimedia in PCM as their “known good”. Ripping audio isn’t difficult for you and me but we’re clearly nerdier than most!

The noise of the optical disc drive? I, erm, that’s not how digital data works.

More to the point, the easiest way to get a FLAC file would be to record some audio in Audacity (or equivalent) and then output it as FLAC.