It's 2009, and that article is actually arguing for DRM on all web-delivered fonts (those delivered via @font-face). Amazing.<p>The comments there link to Mark Pilgrim's article expressing the alternative, and much more likely, future:
<a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/04/21/fuck-the-foundries" rel="nofollow">http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/04/21/fuck-the-foundri...</a>
(The same article on HN: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=572730" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=572730</a>)