That is not the recent settlement, but an old interim order from last year, as can be seen from the date (28. Mai 2003 = May 28, 2003). It contains only parts of the new agreement (namely No. 1 and 2).
In Germany there is an explicit legal exception stating that every text passed by the parliament is not protected by copyright laws. Any former rights lapse, and no-one can usurp it anew.
There was in interesting case some years ago when a German publisher of legal texts claimed to posess the exclusive right on certain headings he had added to the penal code; e.g., other publishers should not be allowed to entitle the section on murder "Murder".
The problem was solved then by putting the headings into the official text of the law...
Now, out of those 8 cases, you win 4 times or 50%. In the cases you stay with your original door, you win 2 out of 4 (50%). If you always switch, you win 2 out of 4 (50%).
That's right - by cases. You forget, however, that those cases do not have the same probability. There are four cases in which you picked door 1 initially, but only two for each of the other doors. This means that you already found the right door in half the cases; unless you know from the beginning that door 1 is the right one, your guess can't be that good.
Therefore, if you want to stay with your cases approach, you have to introduce duplicates for all door 2 and door 3 cases, resulting in six cases with switching; in four cases, you win. Regarding the six cases without switching, you are successful in only two of them.
Now we again
end up thinking that you only win 1 of 3 by staying but win 2 of 3 by switching, don't we?:-)
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The court order (in German)
That is not the recent settlement, but an old interim order from last year, as can be seen from the date (28. Mai 2003 = May 28, 2003). It contains only parts of the new agreement (namely No. 1 and 2).
In Germany there is an explicit legal exception stating that every text passed by the parliament is not protected by copyright laws. Any former rights lapse, and no-one can usurp it anew.
There was in interesting case some years ago when a German publisher of legal texts claimed to posess the exclusive right on certain headings he had added to the penal code; e.g., other publishers should not be allowed to entitle the section on murder "Murder".
The problem was solved then by putting the headings into the official text of the law...
Now, out of those 8 cases, you win 4 times or 50%. In the cases you stay with your original door, you win 2 out of 4 (50%). If you always switch, you win 2 out of 4 (50%).
That's right - by cases. You forget, however, that those cases do not have the same probability. There are four cases in which you picked door 1 initially, but only two for each of the other doors. This means that you already found the right door in half the cases; unless you know from the beginning that door 1 is the right one, your guess can't be that good.
Therefore, if you want to stay with your cases approach, you have to introduce duplicates for all door 2 and door 3 cases, resulting in six cases with switching; in four cases, you win. Regarding the six cases without switching, you are successful in only two of them.
Now we again end up thinking that you only win 1 of 3 by staying but win 2 of 3 by switching, don't we? :-)
can be found here. It is, however, in German legalese and may be hard to understand.