War Against the Bots

[SweetPea]

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How on earth are you gonna convince this bot owner that playing at site X is -EV without building some sort of convoluted interface that pushes away any sane human player? For the life of me, I can't think of what this "effective action" would be.

Assume any bot that's making $175/day is probably part of a bot farm, so the owner's probably making closer to $2k/day.

You're going to have to be very persuasive to convince this guy to walk away from his $500k+ annual paycheck.

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What is the cost of prison? Is criminal justice a suitable deterrant to potential criminal activity?

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Criminal penalties might work...but you are missing a very important step in the legal system: Putting laws on the books to make bots illegal.

As it stands right now, a bot owner could manage his bot farm from inside the District Attorney's office and there's nothing they would do.