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The people managing the Olympics are forbidding any athlete from writing about their experience or posting any media forever, with threats of disqualifications and lawsuits. This is the same short sighted thinking that the RIAA used when they shut down Napster and started suing their customers that even has the courts worried. The Olympics have been so commercialized that in order to sell the rights for millions, they need to shut down the very people that have given them that opportunity to make money. Like threatening fans from wearing clothing or eating food by companies that didn't pay big dollars for the rights. On one hand, I understand you don't want companies doing guerilla marketing by planting people with their products for "free" and you want them to eat you $20 hot dog. However, once you start abusing the fans and the athletes, the motives of the Olympics become obvious and having nothing to do with sports or it's founding ideals. It's all about the money now and the athletes are simply a product to be sold to whomever will buy into it. If the fans stopped coming and rejected this commercialization, do you think that the organizers might think twice about their tactics? Doubtful. They would probably find a way to start suing people for playing Olympic sports in their backyards. What I think they need to consider is that more exposure for them is good for the Olympics and in the end, good for their bottom line. If everyone is allowed to share their experiences, more people will read about instead of only at the "sanctioned" outlets, they will get more interested in watching it, and thus they can command greater TV rights. When Metallica was an unknown group, they understood this by encouraging their fans to tape and distribute their work, however when they became big, they saw all those transactions as lost revenue. Yes, things like the old Napster caused some people to listen and not buy, but I strongly believe it encouraged many to check out and get interested in music. The decline of music sales with the shutting down of Napster is no coincidence in my books. Speaking of money, when NBC pays almost a BILLION dollars for the TV rights, who gets that windfall? Anyone know? I know it doesn't go to the athletes, but I'm curious if it goes to the host city or the organizers. Here in Montreal, we're still paying for the "Big O" through a tax when it isn't falling apart more than 30 years after the Olympics were done. I got this all from a source I've checked out alot, you've surely all seen my links I posted. The reason this belongs in the crazy stuff forum isn't because it's fun, there's nothing fun in this, it's as serious as it can be and is considered pure stupidity over here where I live. _______________ 362 Ohi on! This post was edited by Steinin on Aug 21 2004 10:10pm. |
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