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Most e-books in the Netherlands are now DRM free (exception is Google Play) and according to BREIN that is only possible if they have the information of buyers. They have not given any details what they want to do with it, but they have hinted. They will monitor the version circulating to see if some buyers frequently upload books they buy. If they will, they will get sued by BREIN.
So far only BOL has mentioned they will not give the information, but as this seems strange as the distributor of the books has it in the contract. So in theory BOL would not be able to sell the latest books...
BREIN is known for not being too smart, but winning a lot of cases. They have near unlimited funds, as they are paid by music publishers and now apparently also book publishers. They only start cases where a judge resides that is also part of commissions doing investigation after piracy and so on. Some things are really fishy...
They also claim that all scientific investigations regarding piracy are false and not done correct. They claim their own investigations, which of course show that piracy is a big issue and results in great losses, are the only ones that are correct. However, they do not specify their own methods, so nobody can check it.
It is a scary, corporately funded group that thinks they are the law.
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