The Wall Street Journal reports on the popularity of the Silk Market in China. From the WSJ: While Chinese authorities have taken aggressive efforts to protect Olympics-related intellectual property, the Silk Market in central Beijing stands out as a symbol of the enduring struggle against counterfeiters. Silk Street has become central to the Olympic experience. Games organizers highlight [...]

Ticket scalpers in China lost money when Chinese Olympic hero Liu Xiang dropped out of the 110 meters hurdles to injury.  From BBC News: Olympic tickets are being sold for as little as a tenth of their previous black-market value after a Chinese athlete dropped out. The price for tickets to see the 110m hurdles plummeted after athletics [...]

The International Olympic Committee is asking Sweden to shut down file-sharing site The Pirate Bay for distributing Olympic ceremonies. From the AP (via Yahoo Sports): IOC Vice President Gunilla Lindberg urged Swedish Justice Minister Beatrice Ask to help prevent what she called “the rampant piracy of the opening ceremony,” in a letter dated Aug. 18., which was [...]