Chapter 502 Who fired the first shot, this is very important (4k)
"Huayi launched the first shot against piracy video website."
"At a press conference held in Huayi today, the famous director Feng Pengtong fired again, saying that because piracy is rampant, no one is willing to invest in the film and television industry. Without a large-scale industry, the films produced are all bullshit compared with Hollywood.
Whatever is good to watch, just play games. Don’t blame me for getting addicted to the Internet!"
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"It is reported that Huayi has joined forces with Hantang Culture, Hairun Film and Television and other copyright owners to announce the formation of an 'anti-piracy alliance' at the press conference. The alliance is collecting relevant evidence and preparing to sue Sohu, PPTV, and 56.com
and other infringements.
Gao Yuanyuan, general manager of Hantang Culture, said that if we can endure it, we will certainly endure it, but now we really can’t endure it anymore!”
The video of the press conference, along with the news, spread quickly on the Internet, instantly causing a sensation in the entertainment industry. I never expected that the Beijing circle would be silent, but it would actually be a big event with great fanfare.
The film and television companies that have been suffering from piracy for a long time are responding to the call!
The northwest circle is like Xinhua Line, the Shanghai circle is like Shangying Emperor, the Hong Kong circle is like Poly Bona, and even Zhouyi, Tang Ren, Guangguang...
The lawsuit is so grand and powerful that the amount of compensation involved by Sohu and his family may exceed tens of millions.
There are more than 200 video websites and p2p streaming media. Everyone is in danger. They are worried that this copyright storm will get worse and worse and turn into a bloody purge. They look at Sohu Video in the eye of the storm.
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"Oh no, when it comes to piracy, who can be more rampant than Tudou! Sohu has bought a lot of genuine copies, so why are you targeting me?"
Zhang Chaoyang threw the "Yenjing Newspaper" on the table with disdain.
“Maybe it’s because the Sohu video is too prominent?”
Gong Yu shook his head and laughed, "But don't worry, Mr. Zhang, such an accusation is of no use at all. It's just a scene, with loud thunder and light rain."
Zhang Chaoyang asked doubtfully: "Really?"
Gong Yu nodded: "We are too experienced in this area. We can wait until the lawyer's letter comes. Then stop the infringement and remove the video. Once the news is over, we can organize people to upload it again."
"What if they are serious and have to go to court?"
Zhang Chaoyang looked calm on the surface, but was panicking in his heart.
Gong Yu confidently said: "I have consulted a lawyer in this regard. Even if we lose the lawsuit, we only need to pay 10,000 to 20,000 yuan in compensation for each movie. This is cheaper than buying the original copyright. Moreover, the amount of litigation is so large and the litigation time is very long.
Chairman, these film and television companies will definitely not be able to hold on for long, and they will withdraw the lawsuit themselves."
"It's good to have your words!"
The pressure in Zhang Chaoyang's heart eased, and he murmured to himself: "I have been thinking for three days and three nights and still can't figure it out. Why don't you kill Penguin instead of me? Sohu is not the strongest."
At this moment, the landline phone rang.
Gong Yu saw that the caller number looked particularly familiar. It was from Gu Yongqiang, and he felt mixed emotions.
Under the hint of Zhang Chaoyang's eyes, he picked up the receiver and said enthusiastically: "Hey, Yongqiang, we haven't contacted you for a long time. I heard that you are already the COO of Penguin Video. Congratulations."
"Thanks to Mr. Zhang for making it happen."
Gu Yongqiang on the phone was polite and polite. After exchanging a few decent greetings, he got straight to the point and said: "Mr. Gong, have you seen the news today? It's the anti-piracy alliance established by Huayi and the others. Why is it still involved?
Sohu?"
Gong Yu snorted and covered it up: "This is a misunderstanding. We have checked ourselves. It is purely the user's personal behavior. Sohu has no knowledge and is already explaining to the copyright owner. Don't worry about it. You should pay more attention to Penguin."
, maybe you will be in the next batch."
Gu Yongqiang said: "Mr. Gong, I have always believed that crises are both dangers and opportunities. Don't you think that the current 'anti-piracy' is an opportunity for Penguin and Sohu?"
"You mean?"
Gong Yu raised his eyes and looked at Zhang Chaoyang.
Gu Yongqiang said patiently: "If you think about it, the reason why we bought so many genuine copies has not turned into an advantage is because of piracy. If we take this opportunity to fight a genuine war and a price war, those websites that are already under financial pressure will
Can we still survive? How many competitors can this eliminate!"
"What do you want me to do?" Gong Yu asked.
"I would like to invite Sohu to join the 'China Online Video Anti-Piracy Alliance' led by Penguin, and jointly attack to suppress piracy. In the future, both Penguin and Sohu will definitely be recorded in the credit book of the Internet forever, and they will gain both fame and fortune.
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Gu Yongqiang became more and more excited as he talked, "What do you think!"
Gong Yu received the look from Zhang Chaoyang and couldn't help but realize:
"I can't make the decision on this matter by myself. Mr. Zhang needs to make the decision himself."
"I understand, I understand, can you give me a reply within a week?" Gu Yongqiang said with a smile: "Now there are Tudou and PPS in the alliance. Of course, this is not enough. Mr. Lu hopes that the more members the better, and finally
It’s good to have five or six.”
Gong Yu agreed wholeheartedly and then hung up the phone.
Zhang Chaoyang touched his chin, "Mr. Gong, what do you think?"
Gong Yu nodded in agreement: "Mr. Zhang, I think what he said makes sense. You can't kill piracy just by buying genuine copies. You must also force the top pirate websites to follow Sohu and buy genuine copies. If their money can be used by Sohu, they can't kill them."
Are there many tigers?
If you burn all your money and can't find financing, you will naturally fall behind. Even if the capital chain is broken, it is not impossible to go bankrupt directly."
"This is the truth."
Zhang Chaoyang changed the subject: "But in the Penguin alliance, Sohu is exempted. Haha, Gu Yongqiang has no good intentions, and Lu Fei is even more bad. We are responding, but he is the initiator and the first shot
Didn’t Penguin get all the fame and benefits?”
Gong Yu said in surprise: "What do you mean, we can form an alliance ourselves and recruit people to fight against piracy?"
Zhang Chaoyang stood up excitedly: "Yes, Sohu must lead by example and take the lead in anti-piracy on video websites. If Sohu doesn't let Sohu take the first shot, how can it be given to Penguin!"
"But Yongqiang only gave us one week..."
Gong Yu reminded that once the insufficient guarantee period is up, Gu Yongqiang will leave Sohu and establish the China Online Video Anti-Piracy Alliance.
"Delay, find a way to delay him."
Zhang Chaoyang said in a commanding tone: "This week, you have to find a way to contact at least two video websites with good traffic and support genuine video. I want to build a Sohu alliance before Penguin, the New Online Video Anti-Piracy Alliance.
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"In that case, time is a bit tight."
Gong Yu carefully analyzed that in addition to attracting teammates to join forces, Sohu had to conduct internal self-examination and self-correction, either to clean up the pirated videos, or to buy genuine videos in a disciplined manner, which was a huge expense.
"Then spend money to buy it, but they cannot have the final say on the price. We have to decide it, and it will be 30% of the market price."
"Thirty percent? Huayi and the others won't agree, right?"
"Don't agree? Haha."
Zhang Chaoyang smiled coldly: "Ask them to search in the market. There are a few that are stupid enough to buy genuine copies! If they don't want to buy them, then they won't sell them. Tell them that in the future, some pirate organizations will upload pirated copies again. We will
But we are not responsible.”
Isn't this just a hooligan act?
Gong Yu raised his eyebrows, the contempt in his eyes flashed away.
"They will figure it out. At least they will get money if they sell it to Sohu, but they won't even get a dime for piracy!"
Zhang Chaoyang pouted, 70% of it is mine.
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"Mr. Lu, the call has been made."
Gu Yongqiang was wearing a pair of swimming trunks and walked back to the edge of the swimming pool. He saw that the surroundings were empty. Apart from himself, there were only Lu Fei lying on the lounge chair and Wang Wei, CEO of Tudou.com.
The huge swimming pool was contracted today.
Lu Fei straightened up and sat up: "Based on your understanding of Zhang Chaoyang, do you think he will take the bait?"
"Absolutely!"
Koo Yongqiang said categorically: "With his pushy personality, he will definitely find ways to get ahead of us and form the first anti-piracy alliance."
Lu Fei raised the corners of his mouth, "Very good."
Wang Wei was puzzled: "Mr. Lu, I don't understand why you want to give the first shot against piracy to Sohu? Wouldn't it be better for us to take the limelight ourselves?"
"It's not necessarily a good thing to be in the limelight." Lu Fei said.
Wang Wei frowned, looking at him to the left and Gu Yongqiang to the right. Or did Gu Yongqiang open his mouth to explain, what year is this?
Now is the world of piracy!
Moreover, piracy at this time has a Robin Hood-like sense of justice. Limited by income and bandwidth, netizens do not have the habit of spending money to watch movies. They either go online to find videos, or seek resources, such as quick broadcast and seed search.
Devices and magnetic searches are all about warmth in the world, and good people have a safe life.
In the video website, whoever dares to stand up and take the first shot will definitely not get the support of netizens, but will be regarded as a capitalist with bad intentions and hanged from a street lamp.
He tui, the original version is so expensive, why not check out the pirated version!
"Mr. Wang, be the first to take the lead. I dare say whoever dares to take the lead will face the most anger from pirated websites and netizens, and even revenge."
Gu Yongqiang smiled and said: "This limelight is given to you, do you want it?"
"No, I don't want it anymore."
Wang Wei was inspired to co-write Sohu to attract hatred and firepower to Lu Fei. Penguin could follow Sohu's steps and follow the trend. After all, even Sohu is anti-piracy. As the leader of the Internet, as the New York Times
How can Penguin, the No. 1 Chinese concept stock, remain indifferent and continue to collude with piracy?
If you want to blame, blame the instigator Zhang Chaoyang!
"Zhang Chaoyang, who drank foreign ink in the United States, may not have read "The Art of War"."
Lu Fei picked up the freshly squeezed orange juice and took a sip, "Mr. Wang, before you, I have already talked with Zhang Hongyu from PPS and Zou Shenglong from Xunlei. They are very supportive. How about Tudou?"
"Mr. Lu, we have always followed the 'safe harbor' principle and have been working hard to delete links to pirated videos."
"But why did Mr. Gao from the Han and Tang Dynasties tell me that there are still many infringers on Tudou.com, hundreds of them, and the amount involved is more than 40 million yuan. Is there such a thing?"
"More, not that much at all."
Wang Wei waved his hands and smiled bitterly, then said:
"Mr. Lu, Mr. Gu, you also know that video websites are like this. The amount of uploads by netizens is too large to be monitored, not to mention that monitoring itself is difficult. Like text infringement, it is easy to solve it with search engines, but what about videos?
OK, how to search it?"
"This is no reason." Gu Yongqiang said with a straight face.
Wang Wei was helpless with a trace of indifference, "Yes, Mr. Gu is right. This is indeed not a reason, but it is a fact. Tudou receives 30,000 copyright messages every month, and 2.4 are eligible for deletion.
There are tens of thousands of them. How can we delete them with just a dozen people?"
"It's up to you, Mr. Wang."
Lu Fei turned his head, stared at his face and said: "Video websites should be clear about which ones have no copyright and which ones have copyright. How can they be listed on the market if they can't even tell this?
As I said before, I won’t let them go easy on me just because I hold shares in Tudou, Hantang, and Huayi.”
"Mr. Lu, Mr. Lu!"
Wang Wei gritted his teeth: "But with so many copyrights, Tudou.com is not as wealthy as Penguin, so we don't have that much money to buy movies."
"Mr. Lu has already thought of it for you."
Koo Yongqiang said straightforwardly: "In addition to the anti-piracy alliance, Penguin will also establish a 'Video Content Cooperation Alliance'. As long as PPS, Tudou and Xunlei announce an alliance, they will be able to share a certain number of video movies and TV series. Anything beyond that will also have internal discounts.
And we also accept copyright exchange..."
Wang Wei's eyes suddenly lit up and he couldn't help but cheer.
Several video websites with the highest market share have joined forces to fend off all invading enemies!
"Don't be reluctant to part with these pots and jars, and don't be reluctant to spend money. When Tudou becomes a legitimate company, I will give you a share of the streaming media business in the telecommunications industry."
Lu Fei continued to draw cakes, and the content providers of China Telecom, China Unicom, and mobile set-top boxes were basically monopolized by Penguin Video.
This is also the reason for Penguin’s crazy “buy, buy, buy”!
"Hoo, hoo~"
Wang Wei's breathing became rapid and he blurted out: "Don't worry, Mr. Lu, I will clean up Tudou immediately when I get back. To be honest, I don't look down on piracy. The traffic these videos bring is so useless that no advertisers are willing to spend money."
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Afterwards, the three of them talked for a while about a series of operations of the Anti-Piracy Alliance. In this melee, Tudou needs to fight side by side with Penguin, and PPS as the left and right armies.
Watching Wang Wei leave, Lu Fei looked sideways: "What do you think of him?"
Gu Yongqiang said mercilessly that he would sacrifice his life for big things and forget his duty for small profits. Tudou.com would never be successful in his hands.
you do not say!
Otherwise, in the previous life, my wife could have messed up Tudou.com’s IPO plan, and I would have been so stingy that I would only give her 100,000 in divorce.
Lu Fei thought for a moment and made a plan in his mind, "Yongqiang, maybe this month or next month, there will be a "Soldier Assault" filmed in the Han and Tang Dynasties. You can buy it and arrange it in June.
It will be broadcast simultaneously on Blueberry Channel."
"June?"
Koo Yongqiang narrowed his eyes. Sohu's World Cup broadcast will be in June. Can this drama be so good that it can suppress the World Cup?
………
Three days later, April 22.
In the conference hall of the Yanjing Hotel, the founding ceremony of the "China Online Video Anti-Piracy Alliance" initiated by Sohu was held as scheduled. It formed an alliance with two little-known small websites, Ganxi.com and Youpengple, and officially started the copyright war.
First shot.
In the face of the media, which was full of criticism, Zhang Chaoyang held his head high, high-spirited and gushing——
Piracy must be suppressed at any time. It will not work if we do not suppress it!
Think about it, you spent a lot of money, bought the genuine version, made high-definition and were about to make money, but suddenly the pirated version was stolen!
Therefore, a day without piracy is a good day.
Bala, Bala, Zhang Chaoyang finished his long speech, and then it was Youpeng Pule's turn. He bombarded him with a heartbroken look:
"Piracy is not because they can't afford genuine copies, but because they are used to using free ones. They have a lucky mentality and think that after time has passed, they will not pursue them. In fact, many copyrights are not expensive.
Even if you spend some money on this kind of thing, it won't cost much. It's not shameful to spend money, but some people don't want to take responsibility and don't want to spend money. What's the truth?
I hereby announce that Youpeng Pule has collected evidence of infringement on 369 games of Xunlei and Tudou, and the first batch of 100 lawsuits has been officially filed in Pengcheng Nanshan Court!"
As soon as the words fell, there was an uproar.
As we all know, Thunder is the younger brother of Penguin!
The first shot of the establishment is to hit the Penguin family first?
Amidst the clicking sounds of taking pictures, the reporters were extremely excited, and their minds were already racing with thoughts, "Let's fight, nnd, let's fight quickly."
