When Apple's 11pLP was first launched in June last year, it sold only more than 1,000 units per month. After acquiring Shenchong's electronic trial calculation software, it now sells more than 20,000 units per month.

Atari VP was launched in 1977 and only sold more than 1 million units in two years until U of 1979. After a series of popular games such as Tetris and Pac-Man appeared, in 1979, more than 1 million units were sold in the United States in one Christmas shopping season. And in 19RU, the popularity remained unabated. In less than half a year, more than 1 million units were sold. The market ownership was close to 5 million units, which made Warner, which was not doing business, rise again and again, becoming the most popular among the eight major Hollywood film companies.

The better the performance of these two companies, the more attention Chen Chong, who was lying on top, was attracted. Apple is planning to go public. According to the Wall Street Journal's prediction, once it goes public, the stock in Chen Chong's hand will be worth at least $200 million. The money he invested in electronic trial calculation software was only $100,000, which increased by UU times in a year. It can be said that he was a masterpiece.

But what is even more shocking is the electronic game business. Atari's own games are almost unwilling to be concerned about, while the games produced by Activision are more popular than the other. According to statistics from Fortune magazine, the total sales of a series of games such as Tetris, Pac-Man, and Tank War have exceeded UU, and the turnover is as high as 900 million US dollars per game. This is a very terrifying data. You should know that the box office of the top ten movies in North America in 1979 was only just over 400 million US dollars.

In the face of such dazzling facts, the remarks made by Chen Chong last year, such as "knowledge economy", "software-driven hardware", "personal computers will be the next industrial revolution" have been interpreted and studied by more and more mainstream media and authoritative experts. Various hats such as "one of the richest super richest people in the world", "the future world business leader", "the top ten idols that young people admire the most" have been put on his head, and his name has become a household name in the United States.

After Chen Chong arrived in the United States in early April, he was engaged in everything, buying at the bottom everywhere, investing in Coca-Cola, investing in Wal-Mart, and merging four or five computer and electrical chain companies in succession. It was all very exciting news. In addition to accepting interviews from print media such as Times and Forbes, he also participated in interviews with three major American TV networks in prime time, frequently appeared on the screen, and his popularity soared, becoming the king of topics. Therefore, at the premiere of "Star Wars Empire Strikes Against", he was originally here to make a fuss, and became one of the focus of media pursuits. After he arrived at the Chinese Theater, he was surrounded by many reporters as soon as he appeared.

"Mr. Chen, there is news that you are planning to acquire Fox Films and enter Hollywood. Is it true?"

"Mr. Chen, you invested tens of millions of dollars in Silicon Valley and set up a laboratory specializing in the development of new film technologies. Do you think film technology is the next gold mine?"

"Mr. Chen, will you participate in the investment in the shooting of "Star Wars 3"?"

The huge success of "Star Wars" in 1977 made the nearly bankrupt Fox Salted Fish turn over, doubled its market value, and created a stock market miracle. Most of the movies produced by Fox in the past two years have had a bleak box office, with very ugly financial reports, and the stocks are shaky, and they urgently need "Star Wars" to save the scene. Therefore, at the premiere, in addition to reporters from major entertainment media, there were many financial reporters, so the problem quickly surpassed the scope of the movie.

"Mr. Chen, you have participated in the Republican election fundraising party many times recently. Do you have the idea of ​​becoming a naturalized American? There are rumors that Reagan wants to invite you to become his presidential aide. Is it true?"

"Mr. Shen, Atari is said to be preparing to ban third-party companies from developing games on Atari VP and intends to sue Activision Games. How do you deal with this?"

"Mr. Chen, Jobs believes that IHN is outdated and will be eliminated by the times. As Apple's second largest shareholder, you are buying IHNR stocks on a large scale recently. Can you explain the reason?"

Under the protection of security and staff, Chen Chong struggled to pass through the reporter's encirclement, walked into the Chinese Theater, went up to the second floor, and found the reserved VIp box. As soon as he entered the door, Lily clapped and joked: "Allen, you are so popular, you really should go to the movies yourself, and the box office will definitely be a big hit."

"I am a human-shaped money printing machine." Chen Chong laughed at himself and said: "In the real world, people love money, in the screen world, people love beauty, and I will definitely fail when I act with my respectful appearance."

After saying hello to several people in the private room, Chen Chong stood at the front of the private room, looked around and said, "When I saw the decoration here, I thought of two words, what do you guess?"

"I think." Zhang Yonglin stood beside him and said with a smile: "One of them must be carved beams and painted buildings.

"Yes, this is inconsistent outside, neither Chinese nor foreign, but it has a very Chinese style inside." Chen Chong looked at the golden zenith and red curtain carved with Chinese dragons and said, "It's magnificent and interesting.

Zhang Aijia pointed to the side of the theater and said, "The other word is poetic and picturesque."

Chen Chong gave her a wink that you still understand.

The side of the Chinese Theater is cleverly designed. It is a Chinese landscape painting wall with brown background and white patterns. It is painted with Chinese characteristics such as phoenixes, plum branches, pagodas, etc. It is separated by four blue-white pillars in front. Between the pillars, there is a corridor for the audience to enter and exit. The paintings appear and appear faintly between them, which is quite interesting to "hold the pipa and half-cover the face".

After watching the interior decoration of the theater for a while, Shen Chong began to show off and said, "Do you know? This theater was a Fox company's industry a few years ago."

"Is that right?" Zhang Yonglin said in surprise: "I only know that this was built by West Germany-Grauman in 2019, but I didn't expect it to be from Fox."

"West Germany-Grauman is the most famous performance manager and theater owner in Hollywood in the era. The theater started construction in 1926 and was completed in 19, costing more than 2 million US dollars. It was astronomical at that time. It caused a sensation in Los Angeles after the opening. The first movie was "The King of Kings". The governor and mayor came to participate that night. The tickets were as high as 10 US dollars. You must know that now, the ticket price in the United States is no more than 3 US dollars." Chen Chong knew it carefully and said with mercy: "In fact, when it was built, West Germany-Grauman was built, and he said with ease. He only owned one-third of his shares. In the Great Depression in the United States in 2019, he almost went bankrupt, so he sold his shares to a theater company under Fox. In 1950, Fox acquired two-thirds of the shares and owned the theater. However, in 1973, Fox lost a lot and sold the theater company to Teedman, which was also included. By the way, in fact, the official name of this theater should be called the 'Thai Theater,' but people are too lazy to change their words and habitually called the Chinese Theater."

"Mr. Chen is very profound." Zhang Yonglin praised him and said, "I think even a native of Los Angeles may not be clear about the story."

"What Yuanbo?" Chen Chong smiled and said, "I just envied the place and wanted to buy it, so I did some homework."

"That's great Allen, I support you." Lily, who was chatting with Leslie Cheung, was overjoyed when she heard this and turned around and said, "You buy it quickly, I won't be worried about not being able to buy the premiere tickets for popular movies in the future."

Zhang Aijia looked down at the crowded hall and asked, "This place is located in a golden location in Los Angeles and is so famous, so it's hard to buy, right?"

"It's not easy to buy." Chen Chong made a distressed expression and said, "The price is not a problem. It's just that Tedmann not only sells it, but if he wants to buy it, he has to buy the remaining 300 cinemas together, which is a bit troublesome."

"That's really troublesome." Zhang Yonglin frowned and said with deep emotion: "When I hear the four words "bundled sales", my head is getting bigger."

Zhang Yonglin has great abilities. In just three months, he successfully opened more than 200 videotape chain stores in Hong Kong, with a monthly turnover of up to 10 million Hong Kong dollars. Although he has not made much profit, with the refinement of management and the strengthening of monopoly position, it is only a matter of time before big profits are made.

After the channel construction was basically completed, expanding content resources was put on the agenda. After all, the film and television resources in Hong Kong and Taiwan were not rich enough. Hong Kong is a British colony and English films are also very marketable. Zhang Yonglin turned his attention to the United States, and Chen Chong was so happy that he asked him to take the lead and try it out in Hollywood. Therefore, he approved his application to come to the United States to acquire the film copyright, but the progress was not going smoothly after his tone.

Chen Chong has watched "Star Wars Empire Strikes Counterattack" many times in his previous life, so others were very focused on watching it, but he sat in a comfortable and luxurious private room, chatting with Zhang Yonglin in a half-hearted manner: "What does Fox think of the videotape market?"

"It's strange that videotapes are obviously a very profitable business." Zhang Yonglin held his glasses and said, "We are doing well in Hong Kong, but in the United States, they know nothing about it and have no reports from the media. I have contacted several senior executives and they all have a slight remark about videotapes, believing that it will impact the profits of the film market."

"This is not surprising. Americans are used to being more jealous than they do. They think that the United States is the world." Chen Chong smiled and said, "I guess six of the ten Americans don't know where Hong Kong is. This view from the senior executives of Fox Company is very beneficial to us and can be used as much as possible during negotiations."

"I think so too." Zhang Yonglin didn't want to watch movies either. He looked at the screen casually and said: "Although Americans don't understand the video tape market, they are both arrogant and cunning. We can only buy movies three years ago, and if we buy a good movie, we must sell ten junk movies. These movies are almost all black and white films from the fifties before. Not only are they famous, but the quality is still very low. No one can watch them when they make video tapes."

"No hurry, we have time." Chen Chong smiled slightly and said: "Universal and Disney have been suing Sony since 197U, believing that the video recording opportunity allows users to record TV and movies illegally without the copyright permission, infringing on copyright, causing economic losses to them. Sony is responsible for indirect legal liability to help infringement, demanding compensation, and banning the sale of video recorders in the United States. Do you know this case?"

"I know." Zhang Yonglin nodded and said: "In 1977, the Central District Court of California rejected the lawsuit between Universal and Disney, and then the two companies quickly appealed, delaying for another three years. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is still being tried."

In 1976, the United States revised its copyright law. In the same year, Universal sued Sony, and Disney joined the battle group. In 1977, the Central District Court of California held Sony not guilty. Universal appealed. In 1981, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court overturned the first-instance judgment, believing that Sony did "help infringement". Sony was dissatisfied and appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. After three years of tossing and trying to make the final decision in 1984 that Sony was not guilty and selling video recorders with "substantial non-infringement purposes" did not constitute "help infringement."

This is one of the most famous cases in the history of high-tech intellectual property rights. This case sets up a legal sample for how to define "reasonable use" and "help infringement" - Sony's defense lawyer believes that video recorders are only produced to help viewers make reasonable use of time and change the time of watching programs. They are personal purposes, non-commercial purposes, and are "reasonable use" technological products. Therefore, the sale of video recorders to the public does not constitute "help infringement".

If Sony loses this lawsuit, not only will it lose its video recorder, but it will face natural legal troubles of "copyright infringement" when it is born. In Shen Chong's previous life, many cases have cited this judgment as a defense. For example, in 2001, the five major record companies jointly sued Nap, and dozens of film companies such as MGM jointly sued Pp network service providers. As a semi-tongued IT migrant worker, he naturally has a rough understanding of this case.

In 1984, after the US Supreme Court ruled Sony not guilty, the video recorder market immediately grew explosively, and video tape rental also rose, becoming the biggest source of wealth for film companies. It has been popular in recent years. It was not until after D appeared that the video recorder was eliminated.

"Americans love to sue the most, and this case will definitely be delayed for a long time. Before the final verdict was released, Sony and K dare not produce and sell video cameras on a large scale in the United States, otherwise they will suffer heavy losses once they are banned." Shen Chong pretended to be a master and said, "So I guess the North American video tape market will not become popular within two or three years, and two or three years will be enough for us to make a slow layout."

"What Mr. Shen said," Zhang Yonglin was very smart and said, "In this way, why don't we develop the Japanese market first? Japan is the second largest consumer market in the world and the base camp of Sony and C, so there will be no trouble of banning sales."

"You can try it." As expected, a powerful man who charges in the battle, Shen Chong immediately agreed and said, "I ask Vivian to help you arrange a meeting with the president of Tobo Co., Ltd.."
Chapter completed!