"Suing? It's not the first time. Why don't you understand the tricks?"
Liu Dejian said displeased.
There are a large number of pirated apps in 91. Some developers have sued before, but as soon as they are sued, 91 will be removed from the shelves immediately, and then pretend to be innocent: "I am not strict in censorship, I apologize, I am just a platform, in the future
Be sure to pay attention!”
The litigation process is long, the punishment is light, and the developers finally give up.
"This time is different, Maili sued us!"
The secretary opened the news, and Liu Dejian took a look. Maili Video had just issued a statement: "91 Wireless has moved 136 video contents of this website to its own App platform without authorization, which seriously infringes upon Balabala... has officially reported to
The People's Court of Chaoyang District in Beijing submitted a complaint to pursue its illegal activities..."
"Care about every detail!"
Liu Dejian disagreed, but he was also afraid of delaying 91's financing, so he quickly called the boss of 91 Business Department to inquire.
"We have indeed moved a lot of short videos of Mai Li, making a selection every day and recommending them to users. Sometimes we also create them a second time, and the effect is better than the original ones. Of course, those uploaded are all Majia accounts, and we are just a platform party.
"
The boss is even a little proud.
What do you mean? This is like a pirated book site, which has its own rankings and recommendation positions, and even has an "author area", but only allows users to recharge...
"Take it off the shelves and issue another statement, Maili is suing."
"Okay! I know how to do it."
91 removed the infringing videos in a familiar manner, and then quickly issued an announcement: "91 Wireless mainly provides users with application download business and entertainment content, and only plays the role of information storage space. If there is a report of infringement, 91 Wireless will
We always guarantee processing within 24 hours.
We have removed the relevant video and banned the account to ensure that similar incidents will not happen again..."
After issuing the statement, the lawsuit still has to be fought.
NetDragon's legal department is not a vegetarian and has cultivated a group of talents. Liu Dejian paid attention to the developments of this matter and found that it did not have much impact, so he felt relieved.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, another lawsuit came.
"The famous Internet writer Tian Xia Ba Chang sued 91 Wireless for stealing the "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" series and the "Mysterious Country" series, a total of 13 volumes!"
Followed by: "Liu Cixin, the author of "The Three-Body Problem", sues 91 Wireless!"
Again: “Qianqian Music and Rolling Stone Records jointly sued 91 Wireless for illegally transferring 208 songs!”
“Jiahe Films, Hugelive sues 91 for infringement!”
"Roger Films sues 91!"
Why was everything okay before?
If you sue domestically, you can get involved in the lawsuit. If you lose the case, you can only pay some money, but not much. As for overseas cases, people don’t know about it at all!
But it’s different now. Taiwan’s Rolling Stones, Hong Kong’s Golden Harvest and Hugelive, and Hollywood’s Rogge Pictures are either 99’s own properties or 99’s friends, and have organized groups to come over.
In a short period of time, several entities sued 91 for more than 500 pieces of infringing content!
The overwhelming news is all about "NetDragon's piracy kingdom", "91 relies on piracy to finance", "I have never heard of pirates being able to go public" and the like.
Something is very wrong with Liu Dejian!
He got Yao Yuan's phone number, but no one answered his calls and his text messages came to nothing.
He then asked his friends in Beijing to contact him, and finally called Cheng Wei.
Cheng Weibai spoke very gently, and said: "We are just safeguarding our normal legitimate rights and interests. We have no grudges against you NetDragon. If anything happens, we will see you in court..."
Liu Dejian was stupid to believe it.
NetDragon has a scale of 300 to 400 people, with an annual revenue of more than 500 million and a net profit of less than 100 million. It made a 91 by mistake, but it was not based on its own strength, and it happened to hit the wind.
The management is chaotic, family-run, and inexplicably arrogant. I am used to the local smooth sailing, and I don't quite understand what the big factory in the capital is doing. I will look back on this and finally become panicked.
And was Cheng Wei's action merely a prosecution?
Of course not.
His initial idea was to find a short-selling agency to directly kill NetDragon in the stock market and let Yao Yuanfou get away with it. The method was dirty and it was easy to leave clues.
But Cheng Wei did not give up. He spread the news widely in the mainland and Hong Kong, causing the stock price to fall again after rising to 2.9 yuan due to 91 Financing.
The drop was not big, but he was still unhappy and continued to increase his position.
A heavy shot was launched: "91 keeps saying that it is just a platform. In fact, 91 Mobile Assistant has a complete set of tutorials to teach Apple users to jailbreak! When users successfully jailbreak, 91 will provide a large number of cracked versions of paid software, the so-called
free games!”
""Angry Birds: Star Wars Edition", "Angry Birds: Raiders of the Lost Ark Edition", and "Fruit Ninja: Halloween Edition" are all games sold exclusively overseas, but they appeared in 91 in the name of free games.
On the platform, the total downloads exceed 2 million!”
"Cactus Studio and Apple jointly sued 91 Wireless, demanding an immediate stop to the infringement and a compensation of 100 million yuan!"
“Back then, video websites abused the safe harbor principle, and later introduced policies and regulations, which effectively promoted the orderly development of the video industry.
Now the same chaos has appeared on the mobile phone platform. According to the interpretation of legal experts: 91 can apply the safe harbor principle without knowing it, but exceptions are made when it is known or should have been known.
From a judicial practice point of view, editor review or recommendation of a mobile phone software is deemed to be knowing knowledge.”
Wow!
When the news came out, NetDragon's stock price began to plummet.
Cheng Wei is relying on foreign countries to respect himself, Apple is at its peak, and the weight of Apple's prosecution is not comparable to that in China.
And Cheng Wei was subconsciously imitating Yao Yuan. During the video website war, Yao Yuan created a public opinion environment, prompting the government to quickly issue documents to regulate copyright.
It's the same now.
The so-called ruthless person, Cheng Wei is very knowledgeable, he keeps releasing news, which is all very negative news.
"PCCW suspends 91 financing negotiations!"
"Idg is betting that NetDragon will not be able to survive this crisis and announced a reduction of 3% of its shares!"
“NetDragon drops to the limit!”
“The head of NetDragon’s overseas business unit has switched jobs, and the overseas business unit’s revenue accounts for about 30% of the overall revenue!”
"Keep going down!"
"The technical backbone of "Demon Realm" collectively quit, the game suddenly stopped serving, and it is said that the project team has been hollowed out."
“NetDragon is suspended!”
…
In the office.
There was no light on at night, and Liu Dejian sat alone in the room, the light of his cigarette flickering.
He was panicked, confused, and a little confused.
He never imagined that the invasion of a large company could be so fast and violent, or in other words, he really didn't know that there were so many ways to attack a company.
Financing is bad!
Reputation, stinky!
Talent is gone!
The stock price is even more pitiful. If the stock price were not directly related to bankruptcy, the company would have been bankrupted long ago. In fact, it is almost as good as not being bankrupt. If "The Demon Realm" cannot resume normal operations as soon as possible, then the company will really go bankrupt.
And there are still a lot of lawsuits to be fought. He has no doubt that the authorities are already studying how to strengthen supervision, because he suddenly understands that a company can really affect policy...
Liu Dejian's situation was opened up in this way.
"Dongdongdong!"
"Chairman!"
The secretary came in cautiously, but hesitated to speak.
"What's the news? Tell me!"
Liu Dejian has already broken the pot.
"360 announced its entry into the mobile APP market and launched a comprehensive mobile butler platform, including software downloads, security and anti-virus, intelligent memory saving, computer and mobile data transfer, traffic monitoring..."
"..."
Liu Dejian was speechless and sighed for a long time. He originally wanted to get over this difficulty and regroup and build the 91 platform.
But as soon as 360 entered the market, I knew there was no chance.
Not to mention the time it takes for 91 to be reformed, how much development 360 will have, even if the two are head-to-head, he is not confident that he can beat each other.
Even though 360 was beaten so badly by Tencent, it is still a national-level product.
"What a complete failure!"
Liu Dejian fell into confusion again, and his many years of business concepts were directly destroyed. He kept thinking back and reflecting, where did I go wrong?
Or maybe the reason is very simple: the other party is big and you are small.
That's all.
…
"Alas, the brave man turns into a dragon!"
In the capital, Yao Yuan shed a few drops of crocodile tears and said: "I originally hated this kind of method, but I didn't expect that when it was used on myself, I actually felt a kind of pleasure in bullying the weak."
"Forget it, you have never been a brave man, how can you become a dragon?"
Yinyin rolled her eyes and said, "Hey, shall I find a lighting factory to buy it?"
"what?"
"When you are hung up in the future, you can also hang a better-looking street lamp."
"Hey! I, I..."
Yao Yuan patted his chest: "I am now a patriotic entrepreneur!"