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Originally Posted by xg4bx
download mile 81 by stephen king becomes nothing more than a pic of the cover and a file named sk81 or random numbers.
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That's a great explanation. It'd still be a change... you wouldn't be able to find unauthorized uploads of specific midlist books on a whim; you'd have to be a bit more dedicated.
Uploaders wouldn't be able to rely on search engines pulling together files in disparate locations. They would have to put extra effort making (or conspiring with others to make) "catalog" pages.
Also, AIUI the basic "cyber-locker" sites currently only provide text descriptions + downloads. So the indexing sites would have to serve the cover images themselves. Cover images are themselves copyrighted, and potentially subject to takedown notices.
I suspect you'd see people shifting to torrents before that happened, where they could still search for specific titles.