EBook Sellers Strike Deal To Share Customer Details With Anti-Piracy Outfit

[Jan Klimkowski]

Nah - it's just automated now.

Here's the famous scene from Se7en:

Near the open church doors, Mills speaks with great animation,
holding his ream of computer paper. Somerset looks at the altar
and the tableau, preoccupied.

MILLS
Our guy's a bookworm, right? And, I
know it's a long shot, but you have to
give a picture id and current phone bill
to get a library card. Hey...

Mills snaps his fingers in Somerset's face, gets his attention.

MILLS (CONT)
I made two separate lists of books. One
relating to the sins... Dante's
Purgatory, Canterbury Tales... The
Dictionary of Catholicism... all the
religious stuff. The second list was
books about torture methods, mass
murderers... sadomasochism. Whatever
our killer might study to do the things
he's done. Whatever his other interests
are.

Somerset takes the computer list.

SOMERSET
So, what is this?

MILLS
Alright. Everything at the library goes
into a computer. So, you can get in the
system and cross-reference...

Mills fumbles in his pocket, takes out his pad and reads.

MILLS (CONT)
Let's say you take, Dante's Purgatory,
call number eight-five-one-D, and... The
Biography of the Marquis de Sade,
ninety-two S-A-D-E. Put those books in
the system, and the computer can give
you the name of anyone who's ever taken
out both those books. And, it doesn't
just give you their name and address, it
gives you a complete history of their
library reading habits.

Mills slaps the list in Somerset's hand.

MILLS (CONT)
(psyched up)
If somebody's out there reading Paradise
Lost and studying The Life and Times of
Charlie Manson, I want to talk to them.

Somerset looks up from the list, warming to it. He starts
looking around, searching for someone.

If somebody's out there reading Paradise Lost and studying The Life and Times of Charlie Manson, I want to talk to them.

I guess most of DPF is fucked then.....