Interesting to note that Twitter can act quickly to suspend troll accounts when it feels like it, though.
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I’m not sure why that is a thing on the Internets, but, yes, someone apparently got an Olympic torch and rather than thinking “this is something special” they took industrial tools and ripped it apart to banal smiles on Youtube. Somehow it seemed apropos to the spirit in this thread.
But I’m -still- heartbroken, because when I was a kid I believed in this stuff as soemthing that pulled humanity together. So to see the thing possessed and then picked apart by vultures, and, now, turned all that hope into this sort of creeping disservice of a just another franchise, a commercial brand, an intellectual property owned lock, stock, and barrel in spite of and literally in spite of the original spirit of the events, like some very well-dressed gangsters have moved in and are now running the whole thing with ulterior motives, and almost nobody has noticed the subversion.
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I wonder if having the rights to broadcast the olympics through 2032 has made NBC complacent.
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Hooray for the Scoobie-Doobies!
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One of these days we’ll see a headline like “YouTube video of juggling act taken down for infringement by IOC because the performer was manipulating five rings”
I remember back in the late nineties, makers of the card game Legends of the Five Rings had to change the artwork because IOC claimed it violated their trademark on any design involving five interlocking rings.
Never mind that that basic ring design is a very old motif, tying back to source inspiration from the Book of the Five Rings, and the game’s basically feudal Japanese warfare (certainly not sports), plus the distinctive Olympic color scheme isn’t there. But I guess Wizards of the Coast didn’t want to pay to fight it or something.
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That was Alderac and not Wizards of the Coast and they were far too small to fight the IOC and had to just change the design to coins.
I knew somebody that worked for Alderac and according to him the compnay wanted to fight it but their lawyers told them not to.
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There are occasions when that still happens
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Oh. I’d checked wikipedia to refresh my memory—the article seemed to indicate WotC acquired Alderac shortly before the dispute.
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