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Originally Posted by xg4bx
i'm no computer expert but it seems to me that the entire system could be defeated by the uploader simply renaming the file or not using the name/title in the post. 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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If the books aren't named by title & author (in a description if not the filename, depending on where they're archived/listed), people can't find them to download. Theoretically, from the publishers' viewpoints, that's almost as effective as a takedown.
Of course, it doesn't prevent casual sharing among friends, and makes it hard to track--if someone's got a Wordpress blog with files called "JKR_HP1, JKR_HP2" that might be noticed, but "SK_PC," "SK_Ca," "SK_Ch," "SK_TS" and so on are a lot harder to figure out--and the companies offering this kind of service want script-based results; they're not offering to actually check for unauthorized copies that involve opening files to see what's inside them.
**ponders setting up an archive with public domain texts with filenames to match popular titles**