In this chapter of “Capitalism ruins everything”
For comparison, NBC in the US paid US$7.75 billion (A$11.8 billion) in 2014 for the rights to broadcast the Olympics until 2032.
At that much money, you can pretty much count on extreme amounts of corruption and thievery going on behind the scenes.
lol they tried to sue a company for saying a city name.
What a joke.
F the Olympics
Exclusivity is a failure mode for copyright. Mandatory licensing should’ve been the immediate goal as soon as Netflix started losing content. Blatantly awful for consumers - and we’re talking about giving companies money. If you sell a thing and find yourself going ‘well I don’t want to sell it that way’ then it’s probably because you have anti-competitive schemes in mind. We can’t tolerate that shit.
Any large multi-national international competition with a significant public interest should have and require public access.
