I wish I could downvote you for a sheer ignorance.
> who needs a service ?
Foundries do. You know, the people who actually make your "local fonts". Also those who recognize what a complex task the type design is and want to compensate them for their work.
Its fine to compensate people for the tough work they do on fonts. It still doesn't mean you have to run it as a service. You can still license. Usually, most customers that will pay, do, without regard to what they can do illegally. Those that won't pay, probably won't pay for the service either.
Listen, we don't much tolerate hostile assholes around here - so if you're just going to hurl insults at other members of this community from the comfort of your chair, then please do us all a favour and GTFO.
To address your rather poorly communicated point though: the concept of IP isn't going to disappear, especially not overnight. To pretend that we don't need to find solutions around the IP minefield is unwise at best.
> who needs a service ?
Foundries do. You know, the people who actually make your "local fonts". Also those who recognize what a complex task the type design is and want to compensate them for their work.