Anti-piracy group BREIN is caught up in a huge copyright scandal in the Netherlands. A musician who composed a track for use at a local film festival later found it being used without permission in an anti-piracy campaign.

Earlier this year, however, a breakthrough seemed to loom on the horizon when Buma/Stemra board member Jochem Gerrits contacted the composer with an interesting proposal. Gerrits offered to help out the composer in his efforts to get paid for his hard work, but the music boss had a few demands of his own.

The whole idea of corporate entities being able to bury people in legal fees should be considered no more than financial assault designed to make lawyers rich. An independant arbitrator should determine how much the small guy could afford in a maximum amount of legal fees and then apply this amount to both sides as a maximum that the corporation can spend on their well of lawyers etc with a set timeframe for it to be concluded (eg two years etc).