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Chapter 36 Disagreement

"Of course there is a way." Meng Xiaobai has thought about this problem for a long time. He elaborated: "First of all, we can buy videos of popular film and television works. It is also a good thing for users to download their video content and interact with them. I believe that the copyright owner

I won’t refuse.”

"Secondly, we can enable a charging model. For example, let some high-quality users become video authors and sign licensing contracts with them. Users need to pay for using their videos to change faces, and this fee will be shared with them."

“Finally, we can also make our own video special effects for users to change their faces or take pictures!” Meng Xiaobai analyzed, “For example, Ji Meng Camera is produced by Feiyin’s parent company. Many authors of Feiyin’s short videos use Ji Meng.

Camera. It has similar functions, such as anime stickers, cartoon face-changing special effects, etc. We can do better!"

After hearing what he said, Pan Yu first expressed his affirmation, "You are right, these are all methods that can be used to attract users."

"But have you ever thought that anything you mentioned requires a lot of money! To buy the copyright? Do you know how much it costs to buy out the copyrights of hundreds of thousands of popular film and television works at one time? At least one billion!"

"Users pay to use videos? Zai is free. How can we compete with it if we pay? And how much additional expenses will we have to make our own video special effects?"

Pan Yu dismissed his suggestions one by one, "Xiao Meng, you only need to be responsible for technical matters. You don't need to worry about operational matters. Do you understand?"

Meng Xiaobai was silent for two seconds and said: "I don't care about the rest. I hope to apply for funds for the development of video special effects scenes."

"Okay, I will apply to the company." Pan Yu agreed.

The conversation with Pan Yu was not pleasant, and Meng Xiaobai found that things were developing in a direction he did not want to see.

In the next week, the number of users of Baibianxiu continued to grow rapidly, and it even began to compete with zai-Fengmianxiu software for the user market.

Topics related to the Variety Show software have also become popular on the Internet, and some media even hailed it as the most promising app of the year!

Therefore, Langya Company once again allocated 200 million yuan to the project department for server expenses. Because of the popularity of the Variety Show app, the money burned by the server every day reached 2 million!

The company seems to have chosen to turn a blind eye to the copyright and user privacy violations that Meng Xiaobai was worried about, without any awareness of improvement.

As for the funds he applied for to produce special effects video scenes, there has been no news yet, but the cost of server expenses has been increasing.

Meng Xiaobai knows very well that the company's current goal is to grow the number of users!

"Director, our application to be listed on the Apple App Store has been rejected," Gan Huaronghui reported. "The reason is that our software is suspected of infringing on user privacy."

"What did the operations department say?" Meng Xiaobai asked, knowing that this would happen.

"There is no response. It is estimated that they do not plan to put the app on the Apple App Store in the short term." Gan Huarong replied.

"I understand, go ahead and get going." Meng Xiaobai said.

In the office, Meng Xiaobai sighed. The company's senior management didn't care about his ideas, and he gradually had other ideas in his mind.

Three days later, Meng Xiaobai was at work when Pan Yu suddenly came to his office and said: "Xiao Meng, hurry up and have someone disconnect the server and make an announcement saying it is an emergency maintenance."

"What's wrong?" Meng Xiaobai asked in surprise, "Why do you want to interrupt the server connection? There is no problem with the server?"

"If you encounter some trouble during the review, please do as you please." Pan Yu didn't explain much, but judging from his expression, it wasn't a good thing.

Meng Xiaobai asked people to do so, and soon users of the Variety Show app saw a notice that the software was under emergency maintenance and was expected to be re-opened in three hours.

"What happened?" Meng Xiaobai was confused and couldn't help but ask Gao Yuan.

"I can't say." Gao Yuan's expression was complicated.

"Sister Gao, I am also in the project department, don't I have the right to know?" Meng Xiaobai asked rhetorically.

"This... well, don't tell Mr. Pan that I said it later." Gao Yuan closed the office door and explained to him.

"A few days ago, someone stole the portrait information of a female user on our software, and then used smart face-swapping to replace it with an indecent video of a man and a woman. The person also sent the video to the female user's family."

"Her family believed it, and her husband asked for a divorce. The user was also very distressed, so they found the media for help and planned to sue us for copyright infringement."

"Sure enough, what I was most worried about happened!" Meng Xiaobai felt a little angry, "I have said before that user privacy must be protected and users' portrait information cannot be used without permission!"

"This is beyond our control." Gao Yuan said helplessly.

"Then how to deal with it?" Meng Xiaobai then asked.

"What else can we do? Of course we need to contact public relations as soon as possible!" Gao Yuan said, "It was discovered early this time and has not spread on the Internet. The public relations department has asked the media to delete relevant reports. We contacted the female user and contacted

She reached a private settlement, which probably paid her tens of thousands of yuan in mental damages."

"Then what?" Meng Xiaobai asked, "If something like this happened, don't they plan to change the user agreement?"

Gao Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "This is not something I can decide."

"No, I'm going to find Mr. Pan!" Meng Xiaobai couldn't sit still. He had a hunch that this was just the beginning. If the user agreement is not changed and restrictions are imposed on the uploading and review of the material library, more and more such things will happen.

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"Hey... don't be impulsive!" Gao Yuan grabbed him and warned: "Now the number of Variety Show users is growing too fast, and everyone is turning a blind eye. Even Mr. Pan agrees, and other bosses

I won’t agree either.”

"I have to make it clear!" Meng Xiaobai said solemnly, "I developed this thing, and I have a certain responsibility. This time it was handled early. Think about it, what if the user couldn't bear the pressure and committed suicide? Or

Internet fraudsters use this technology to defraud and blackmail, have you ever thought about how many bad things will happen because of our inaction?"

"This..." Gao Yuan was silent. She originally thought that things would not develop like this, but an example happened just now.

"You go ahead." She was silent for a moment and said, obviously she also supported Meng Xiaobai's approach in her heart.

Meng Xiaobai went straight to Pan Yu's office. At this time, there was another person in Pan Yu's office, Wu Baiyu, another vice president of Langya Company. Although the two often fought openly and secretly, they seemed to be in a good mood at this time.

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"Good guy, according to this growth trend, it won't be long before Variety Show app will become the hottest new mobile app this year!" Wu Baiyu said with emotion as he looked at the data displayed by Pan Yu.

"Yes!" Pan Yu said confidently, "Our technology is more powerful than Zai, and many Zai users have already switched to our app."

"It seems that the establishment of the Variety Show project is a stroke of genius!" Wu Baiyu said, "I want this data to be seen by the directors of the head office, and they can 100% approve the independence of the Variety Show project and the establishment of a new Variety Show

Show company!”

"Yes, with our current potential, we may not be smaller than Langya Company in the future!" Mentioning this, Pan Yu also sounded excited. As long as the company is established, he will naturally be the president of the new company.

"You have done a very good job, I will vote for you." Wu Baiyu said clearly. Now it is a certainty that the Variety Show project will become bigger. In this case, there is no need for him to fight Pan Yu, so he might as well give him away

A personal situation. Besides, as long as Pan Yu leaves, he will be the biggest vice president in Langya Company!

"Then I'll thank Mr. Wu in advance!" Pan Yu said with a smile, and the two reached a cooperation.


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