Ok, I know this must have been asked before, but I am going to ask y'all again.
For some reason my fonts show up on shady websites all over the place, some of them not even remotely connected to typography or fonts. I know these morons try to generate more flow to their websites, but it just doesn't seem right to me.
I came across one website which listed my fonts as freeware, telling people to YES, go ahead and modify my fonts! Resell the lot, why don't ya?

What are your experiences with this, how did you cope with this and is there a way to actually protect your babies from these vultures?

I am beginning to think that the only way to protect your fonts is to just upload demo versions, with only an A-Z character set..

(and Koeiekat: yes, I include license info inside the font itself!) ;-)

Sue'm ... or maybe rent-a-turk?

hehehe, the cat is back!

yeah... Sue 'm for all they're worth!!!!

same problem here. Some stupid girl uploaded one of my font (sweet confusion) on deviantart without the license readme, rezipped the font file alone in a rar, telling people it's hers. I've warned her and deviantart... still nothing, the rar is still available. On top of it, it comes in first place in a google search on the name of the font !
I sometimes make a Google check on my fonts to bust these cases. Very often the font is uploaded on many font site, i don't really care until they let the readme file and there is mention of the auhtor and/or link to my website. Sometimes when i found the font without license i just send a warning to the site maintainer and in most case this is enough to get through.
To solve the problem i don't make full fonts for free anymore. I just do basic charaters without font embedding allowed for free version and make a PRO version with more characters, enhanced kernings, font embedding allowed, ligatures, ...
I took the time to make a real EULA for pro version and i'm trying to make the same thing for free version. I also put the readme into the "author note" on dafont. The last visual i made for sweet confusion promote the pro version.

It's sad that people don't play the game, if every author do the same thing there will be no more free quality fonts with full character map

I hope this will help.

Hey Vinz,

Yeah..... I was afraid it would be like this. I guess I'll redo my fonts and just create the basic character set.
Thanks a lot, you've been a great help! And.... good luck with the deviant art case!