On Monday, Intel posted a $10,000 bounty on a copy of the magazine in which Moore's Law was first introduced. CNET notes that "The April 19, 1965, issue of [Electronics Magazine] contained an article by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that described how the number of components on integrated circuits was doubling every year. The article became the foundation for Moore's famed dictum and has been a cornerstone of the entire IT industry for decades."

They also note that since issuing the bounty, Librarians are complaining that the magazines are being stolen off of library shelves.

There was a glaring space on the shelf where the bound volume containing the April 19, 1965, edition of Electronics Magazine sat for years, said Mary Schlembach, assistant engineering librarian at the Grainger Engineering Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Another librarian heard a student talking on a cell phone about the volume the same day, Schlembach said. Ordinarily, the magazine is not a popular item.

"We don't know when it walked, but it walked," she said. "A lot of copies will go missing."

Librarians at Stanford University, the University of Washington and other universities say they are angry at Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel for posting on eBay a $10,000 bounty for a copy of the magazine. The bounty went up on April 11. Since then, others have posted bounties too.

Buy paying the bounty, Intel could find themselves guilty of receiving stolen property. And given the $10,000 value of the item, felony grand larceny charges could be filed against the thief.