Olympians Banned From Blogging

nodwick writes "CNN reports that in a bid to protect its lucrative media contracts, the IOC is barring competitors, coaches, and support personnel from writing firsthand accounts of their Olympic experience, on the web or in print, for the duration of the Games. Nor are they allowed to ever post photographs or movies that they've taken, including media of themselves, even after the Games are finished. They've threatened to disqualify anyone that violates their restrictions and sue them for monetary damages. Looks like an effort to clamp down on grassroots, word-of-mouth publicity for the Olympics -- good thing they're not having any problems selling tickets anyways, eh?"

Comments

Re:Not cool

[Arngautr]

I could just use a proxy but still! This didn't happen till that md5 article so I just figured /. got hacked, a password got discovered, or somebody dropped the ball, (because of the md5 being part of it) but then I could post, and now I can't, oh well, I suppose I have better things to do than troll /.
see ya

Re:What Idiots

[nexex]

See: Todd Berman

I have to say, the country bias is not just an American thing. Every single event that has a Canadian participant is covered in some way. For example, the Men's Team Gymnastics Qualifiers were generally fairly well covered, but absolutely had a Canadian content edge to them. Break to the finals, with no Canadian team involved. You got to see one participant from each of the top 4 teams (US, China, Japan, and Romania) perform each event. Zoom over to the American networks, and you get to see *all* of the performances of those same top 4 teams. The same held true for the Women's competition.

It happens in every country

Re:And don't even THINK of linking to their Site

[Guppy06]

"They don't even want people directing traffic to their site."

IMO, DNS servers should whole-heartedly support this policy by not resolving the URL unless the requestor has provided, in writing, documentation that the link being followed is valid.