The Theory of Blackjack

**Norm** · 04-03-2022, 07:42 AM

Actually, Pirate Bay only has torrent links, no content at all. As for profit-making, it was a matter in the TPB case as a part of Swedish law that calculates max financial penalties. It is against their constitution to fine someone more than they can afford. The founders went to prison. The site is still up -- in Belarus. The Internet Archive had revenue of $36.7 million in 2019.

The Archive still stands because they remove items when asked and because they have responded to some lawsuits with massive takedowns. Their gaming software is ancient abandonware.

I think you misconstrued "Richard Sherman distinguished Professor of Law at Berkeley Law". Richard Sherman (deceased) was a real estate lawyer. He donated funds to create the "Richard Sherman distinguished Professor of Law at Berkeley Law" chair. He wasn't a receiver of this position.

The Internet Archives claim to be a library is a falsehood. Libraries do not lend what they do not have authorization to lend.

**Norm** · 04-03-2022, 08:02 AM

Sorry, but that's absurd. I say again, like YouTube, they remove items when asked -- unlike Pirate Bay. That's why TPB founders were jailed and the Internet Archive still exists. And suits against them have affected them. They shut down what they called the "National Emergency Library" after a lawsuit by four major publishers in 2020. As Senator Thom Tillis, chairman of the intellectual property subcommittee on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a letter to the Internet Archive, he was "concerned that the Internet Archive thinks that it—not Congress—gets to determine the scope of copyright law"

**Norm** · 04-03-2022, 02:20 PM

The publishers got the "Emergency Library" taken down. The archive has also taken other sections of material offline in addition to the individual requests. Of course the publishers want more. It is an existential threat to publishing and authorship. We have a library system, which even distributes digital copies of books, in a carefully crafted agreement with publishers. The archive wants to pretend copyright doesn't exist and screw intellectual property.

The same is true of games. Copyright thieves claim it costs $0 for a game because it's digital and another copy has "no cost". The actual cost of a top video game is around 40 to 50 million dollars. The concept that you can buy one copy and distribute it to millions of people for free is outlandish. As for a book; any idea what it takes to author a book? Even the author of the Pulitzer To Kill a Mockingbird only wrote two books in her life, the second of which came out 60 years after written.

The law works slowly. The Pirate Bay founders went to prison a dozen years after it started after many court trials, all of which they lost, and the site is still up. That doesn't mean it's legal. Illegal things occur constantly and most are never prosecuted. Most rapes are not prosecuted, which doesn't make rape legal.

I never understood the concept that some workers don't need food to live. In any case, this is not Pirate Bay and any illegal activity will be deleted.

**davethebuilder** · 04-28-2022, 05:38 AM

Originally Posted by Gronbog

The really detailed math is separated into appendices. The math in the main text is relatively easier.

The book arrived a few days ago and I dived straight in, absorbing the first few chapters quite easily. Then, as you said, I hit the appendices and that slowed me down. It's dated but it's also the most mathematically advanced book on Blackjack I have ever seen and it going to take me quite some time to get through it. I can see me reading this many times before I'm done.