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Chapter 3136: Tools for Disintegrating Power

Zhang Chaoyang said: "Once your theory comes out, it will sweep the global film and television industry in a few years."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said jokingly, "That's for sure. People all over the world have suffered from Hollywood for a long time. It is unfair to let Hollywood control the most distribution resources and let people in Hollywood decide the distribution rights of distribution resources."

Zhang Chaoyang nodded. "After hearing what you said, I finally understood that the core competitiveness of Hollywood giants is the right to allocate industry resources."

"Yes, the monopoly on the distribution of distribution resources."

"But this is not good for you. Ziweixing Global is also a Hollywood giant and has the monopoly on distribution rights."

"That's different!" Zhou Buqi was very conceited about this. "Market-based competition can make capable people stand out. The more capable they are, the more achievements they will make. If some non-market power intervention is added, there will definitely be power rent-seeking. As long as there is power rent-seeking, it will make it difficult for outstanding people to stand out, and it will make incompetent people obtain inappropriate resources, which will cause waste of resources and industry injustice."

Zhang Chaoyang laughed and said, "Are you studying political economics?"

"What? I've seen and experienced a lot, so I just summarized it." Zhou Buqi really hasn't studied the economic theories in different fields. "With the current institutional framework of Hollywood, Ziweixing Global is of course an industry giant and its position is very stable. But if we rely on the Internet to break the existing power structure and reduce the importance of distribution rights, it will only allow Ziweixing Global to fully exert its strength and further widen the gap."

"So confident?"

In fact, Zhang Chaoyang has great confidence in him. He is able to voluntarily give up his own power to embrace the market. This courage is far beyond what ordinary people can have.

The biggest criticism of many large zombie companies is that they lack entrepreneurs with a spirit of self-revolution. In the long run, this will have a very negative impact on both internal and external society. They occupy huge social resources but can only create a small amount of social benefits.

If we really care about the development of society, the public and the world, then we must actively give up our own power, return social resources to society, and allow capable people to create greater value and more social wealth.

Almost all century-old companies and super-large companies at home and abroad have this problem.

The power they control is far from commensurate with the social wealth they create.

Hollywood has been developing for a hundred years and has become more and more zombie-like.

Except for Disney which still has some vitality, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Sony Entertainment are basically on the verge of survival, and Warner is also dying and preparing to sell itself. They all rely on the resource allocation power in their hands to allocate more resources to themselves, and rely on unfair resource allocation to plunder social resources belonging to others to prolong their lives.

The Internet is an effective tool that can effectively break up the power monopoly in many traditional industries.

This is also the tool that Zhou Buqi is best at.

Which is better, a movie produced by Paramount with an investment of $2 million or a movie shot by a college student with a mobile phone? Those in Hollywood who control the allocation of resources should not decide this, and they should not only release Paramount's movies and throw the works of college students into the trash.

It should be left to the fans around the world to decide.

Put both movies on the streaming platform and fans can watch whichever they want. The Internet can provide a platform for a fair competition between the two movies, rather than subjective human judgment.

Only in this way can many excellent foreign film and television works become as popular as Hollywood movies and American TV series. Zhou Buqi said: "I have worked hard for five or six years to develop streaming media. I have a leading advantage, right? The fairer the competition, the greater my advantage."

Zhang Chaoyang pondered and said, "In this way, the film and television industry around the world will welcome you. You have brought fair opportunities to every film and television practitioner in the world, instead of giving special treatment to Hollywood as in the past. The film and television industry is a cultural export. If you can accomplish this, it will be equivalent to allowing every country in the world to have the same power to export value in the film and television industry as the United States. This will have a significant impact!"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "That's for sure!"

Zhang Chaoyang nodded. "This can make your global business smoother. You, as a guest of honor, can be more popular in various countries. This can also be regarded as a dismantling of American hegemony in this field. If you go this far, you have to be careful."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "It's not me who's at the forefront, it's Silicon Valley. Netflix and Amazon have been doing streaming for so many years, and Apple, Microsoft and others will probably enter the market soon."

Zhang Chaoyang smiled and said, "If you can accomplish this, China will be happy too. At least domestic film and television works will have more opportunities to develop overseas, so that the whole world can see the real situation in China through film and television works, instead of being filtered by some unscrupulous Western media. I have visited so many countries over the years, and I have never seen any country that can develop as fast as China."

Zhou Buqi stretched lazily, "The opportunity is provided, whether you can do it or not depends entirely on your ability, just like the "Three-Body Problem" that we are going to start production on next."

"The Three-Body Problem?" Zhang Chaoyang raised his eyebrows. "Didn't this win a science fiction award two months ago?"

Zhou Buqi said, "Yes, it's that science fiction novel. I have the copyright, and I asked someone to translate it into English and recommended it to you."

"Then you have made a great contribution."

"I want to make this novel into a TV series. If Americans make it, they will definitely choose Americans as the protagonists to promote American values; if a domestic team makes it, they will definitely choose domestic actors as the protagonists, and the content of the filming must conform to the main theme and be legal and compliant. Anyone can make it, Koreans, Indians, British, Germans, whoever wants to make it can buy the copyright. After the filming, it will be posted on the streaming platform and audiences all over the world can watch it. As for which version the global audience likes to watch and which copyright is more influential worldwide, it depends on who makes the better and more universal film."

"Hey... We're at Disneyland!"

Zhang Chaoyang looked out the window and saw Disney’s headquarters building that looked like a castle.

……

Disney is transforming into a streaming media company.

Imminent.

The most anxious area is not the field of film and television streaming, but the field of live sports streaming on the Internet.

If it weren't for this, Robert Iger would not have surrendered to Zhou Buqi.

ESPN is the core asset of Disney's television business, even more important than ABC TV network, and is Disney's most stable source of cash flow. ESPN is the world's largest TV station, but since the beginning of this year, the number of users has been declining.

  Even many young people have called on the Internet to launch a "cord-cutting" movement against ESPN. That is, to cut the cable of ESPN TV station, give up ESPN and turn to the Internet!

Nowadays, more and more sporting events are being broadcast live on the Internet and can be watched on computers, tablets and mobile phones, which is much more convenient than watching TV.

So ESPN must transform immediately and launch a streaming version immediately.