It is all over the world the topic of the month -the Olympics. But I don't mean to talk about the games in Peking, Hongkong or in Qingdao. Thousands of instant news are always available on the net. What interests me is the foreign broadcasting restriction.

Four years ago I've heard about the story in US, that if someone wanted to watch to Olympic in live, he had to pay for the programs. It seems to be the same story this year, because the ABC has a suck discussion about the chinese athletes in women's gymnastic, whether they are old enough to stand on the stage. They took the topic and made me feel that they are embarrassed without the live broadcast.

Anyway, if you want to watch the game outside china then you'll have to fight against the broadcasting restrictions. Although we may have many choices in Deutschland, for example ZDF or Eurosport, it is always the best choice to watch the programs from CCTV, because they have more in detail and at the most about the gold medals. In fact it's not easy to access to the Programs from CCTV through internet because of the copyright.

After Martin Luther pasted his papers in Wittenberg, the message has spread throughout Deutschland without the constriction of copyrights. But ever since the electrical record media came to the world, the problem seemed to be born. Some may hate to see that because the others are easy to grab the information without paying them bulks. I'm sorry to tell them, who hate the information spreading without paying, that the things may go in the direction, which they won't like to see!

The technical development is making the spreading of information faster and easier. Even if someone is reluctant to face, the technology is going to make the concept copy rights fragile. It’s like almost every change in the history, which seemed to be ugly at first and latter became the main stream. If the restrictions are to be remained in order to protect the privilege, someone may lose the good words of mouth and then his money. We may see the change one day, hopefully in 2012 in London. But it’s not a surprise, if we will still have to pay for the live programs in 2012. After all it is jet the main stream to protect the copy rights.

翻工无聊时偶一为之，顺便纪念Neuburg的三个月