# Summary of IRC Log Discussion (July 25, 2011)

* A discussion about the Aaron Swartz case noted that JSTOR claimed no interest in pursuing legal action and acknowledged that Swartz returned the downloaded data, with participants sharing a related torrent with 410 seeders.

* Participants calculated the storage requirements for archiving all scientific papers, estimating that 100 million papers at 0.5MB each would require approximately 50TB, though biotech papers averaged 1.2MB due to scans.

* The group discussed PDF watermarking techniques used by academic publishers, comparing downloaded papers to identify account-dependent watermarks, and noting that IEEE had stopped using visible watermarks.

* A research paper from Science was shared about synaptic pruning by microglia being necessary for normal brain development, prompting discussion about the cellular mechanisms involved.

* A participant shared a GitHub gist containing "droid2png.sh" scripts for the Android Debug Bridge (adb), allowing screen capture functionality for Android devices.