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Originally Posted by mgmueller
What makes you think, pirated content mainly is from OCRed material?
Why not convert digital content, thus eliminating any discriminating header information (user name, credit card number)?
That's how it happens for movies.
There are tools you legally (?) can buy in open webstores.
They strip iTunes movies (supposedly it even works for rentals) from DRM and make a quick (supposedly loss-free) copy without user information.
I wouldn't rely on such marketing information and certainly never would distribute any content that might link to me. But that's what I've heard about movies and it kind of makes sense.
Of course there's the occasional TV episode you can download only hours after initial broadcast, so this obviously has to bee some digital recording...
Anyway...
Will pirates really scan an OCR?
I've seen this for comics with the respective signature on the front page.
But for books?
Years ago, extremely well made PDFs of the Harry Potter books had been circulated. They definitely had been scanned, this was obvious from the layout and such.
But nowadays?
Maybe some older books still aren't available in digital form and might find their producer via scan and OCR.
But I really would be surprised, if someone went through such troubles for content, that already exists digitally.
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I was assuming since
they already had the book, they wouldn't need to specifically convert it to EPUB because of some ridiculous advocacy-of-the-EPUB.
Unless they want to nuke the text back to TXT/Markdown or something, the watermarks could be hiding anywhere. Speaking of which, how many books actually have watermarks at all? Dunno, I have never gone into the issue...
I imagine they have their tools for stripping metadata out, people like that would make them. Relying on just a mobi-to-epub conversion seems rather risky, but what would I know? I have never thought about how to illegally distribute all my purchases.