I doubt OP is a publisher. Nobody goes after the little guy (except when they want to make an example of someone, but the odds of that happening to you are slim to none).
I regularly get materials with identifying information embedded in them, it’s very common in the technical publishing industry, not unreasonable to check a purchased eBook for an identifier which ties it back to the original purchaser.
For fucks sake I’m pretty privacy conscious but you guys just take it too far
I’m pretty sure there was at least one publisher caught experimenting with this.
I doubt OP is a publisher. Nobody goes after the little guy (except when they want to make an example of someone, but the odds of that happening to you are slim to none).
I regularly get materials with identifying information embedded in them, it’s very common in the technical publishing industry, not unreasonable to check a purchased eBook for an identifier which ties it back to the original purchaser.