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Originally Posted by Ankh
They can easily face the abyss, and overnight, should darknet switch to the distribution of raw scans.
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This already happens for image-heavy books. Anything with lots of pictures has a good chance of being scanned directly to PDF with no OCR added. Or they're photographed with a digital camera, and either PDF'd from those images, or thrown into a zip file.
So far, there's not much of this, because not many people have access to good OCR programs. But between growing awareness of & access to conversion software, and more software & devices designed to read image-scan PDFs, and the ever-growing bandwidth limits, I suspect we'll see more and more raw scans of pbooks that aren't available as legit ebooks.
The badly-OCRd text versions will become less popular than the 20mb PDF of scans.