The indictment states "As alleged, the defendants profited illegally off work they stole, often uploading works within mere hours of publication, and in the process victimized authors, publishers and booksellers". But z-lib did not charge anything, and did not have ads. So how, exactly, did they profit?

I have an old Apple //e sitting in a corner. Amdek green screen monitor and 2 Quentin 5.25" floppy drives. Haven't tried to boot it in years, but the last time I did it still worked.

Comparing the camera shutter speed to an optical microscope makes about as much sense as saying the camera "has a false-positive rate of just one in a million". Someone forgot to read the article before posting, again.

Nice how they include the link for the "dead tree" version but the online version is much harder to find. Here it is http://en.flossmanuals.net/kde-guide/

That is a good point. I contribute to Folding@Home because it is doing pure research to understand the way proteins fold. If it happens to contribute to a cure for Alzheimer's or some other concrete result, that would be fantastic. But that is not the point. Pure research to advance the body of human knowledge is what I am hoping to support.