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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
My question is "Is it legal for the supplier to demand this and/or enforce it?"
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At this point in time, it isn't. If BREIN would knock on my front door, and ask something like this:
"A person called Mr. X on MobileRead is spreading books on the internet. We have determined that it is likely that you are a good friend of his. What is his name and where does he live?"
Then I could just give them the finger and slam the door shut and they couldn't do anything about that.
If they'd have a judge's warrant to come ask for this information, and have some police officers with them, then that would change the situation.
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Seems suspiciously like discrimination to me as well as invasion of privacy.
Helen
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It's blackmail.
The problem is that stores have to acquire all Dutch books through Centraal Boekhuis. If BREIN persuades them (CB) to put something like "Buying books from CB makes it obligatory to provide a customer's personal data to BREIN if they want it. If you don't, then you can't sell our books", then the stores are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They can't give CB (and thereore, BREIN) "the finger", because for a vendor, there is no other place to acquire Dutch books. Not as far as I know; there were, but they are either bankrupt, or bought by CB.
One of the questions asked in parliament addresses this exact issue.