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Chapter 3154 Triumphant Return
Chapter 3154 Triumphant Return
Zhou Buqi returned triumphantly.
He personally presided over the meeting of the Rights Protection Committee and happily announced three pieces of important good news.
First, the hacker was caught.
The photo leak incident that had caused panic among the public was effectively controlled. Except for a small number of photos that were leaked as a deterrent in the early stages, the vast majority of photos and videos were not leaked and did not cause greater destructive impact.
Second, in order to provide long-term support and assistance to Hollywood stars who have been harmed by public events, Boss Zhou decided to set up a Hollywood public welfare charity fund to deal with similar incidents that may occur in the future.
We need to provide long-term and effective assistance to those in the industry who have been harmed.
Hollywood is a place of fame and fortune. The more famous you are, the more harm you will suffer. In the past, Hollywood only paid attention to the halo of fame and fortune, but never cared about those who were hurt, as if they were victims eliminated by the industry.
This is not possible!
Now that Boss Zhou has shown his influence, he wants to help these people!
For example, Jennifer Lawrence, who suffered the most in this nude photo incident, if her career was affected, then this Hollywood public charity fund would have an obligation to help her through the difficulties.
Third, the rights protection incident ended here.
Apple will donate $1.8 million to the newly established Hollywood charity fund to support fair causes in Hollywood. Hollywood and Apple have always maintained a good cooperative relationship, and this hacker incident should not damage the relationship between the two parties.
When they heard that there was money, the other members of the Rights Protection Committee became excited.
No wonder Boss Zhou compromised!
It turns out that Apple gave in!
This Hollywood charity fund is obviously established to maintain the unity of Hollywood and the stability of the industry. It can play a positive role in promoting the overall development of Hollywood and benefit all parties. Boss Zhou is really down to earth!
In general, people should sympathize with disadvantaged groups.
These Hollywood celebrities are all very rich and have high status; they do not seem to be a disadvantaged group.
So when they are hurt, no one in the whole society cares. There are even many irresponsible arguments that the reason they can make so much money is that most of it is from being scolded, and it is natural for them to be hurt.
But in fact, the depression rate among celebrities is much higher than that among ordinary people, and the suicide rate among celebrities is also much higher than that among ordinary people.
You are clearly hurt, but the public still doesn't recognize you and thinks you deserve it. Anyone who encounters this kind of thing may have a mental breakdown. At this time, if Hollywood cannot stand up and express care for him, it will easily ruin his future acting career and even make him depressed.
Boss Zhou is really doing good things!
The fact that he has such a social status at such a young age is not just luck, but also shows his empathy and social care. After the establishment of this public welfare charity fund, Hollywood has also gained a basic social equity guarantee.
Finally, Zhou Buqi announced a good news.
In this hacking incident, more than 100 people's photos were stolen, and most of the photos were not circulated, so no harm was caused. But even so, some psychological comfort is needed.
After all, this rights protection committee was organized by relying on these talents.
Without these people, Apple would not have compromised.
Then each person will be given a consolation payment of $10 and sign a waiver agreement, and will not be allowed to challenge Apple over this matter in the future.
This matter is over.
The 15 existing members of the Rights Protection Committee will all join the newly established Hollywood Public Welfare Charity Fund as directors. The chairman of the board will of course be Jason Kilar, CEO of Ziweixing Global, who will control the financial power and the main control.
After the incident was over, news spread all over Hollywood.
It is really admirable that Mr. Zhou can make Apple bow its head and make Apple actually spend a large sum of money to protect the public interest of Hollywood. This is a true industry leader!
All parties responded positively.
Robert Iger also called to congratulate him.
Zhou Buqi did not let him go, and asked: "What happened to the ESPN matter?" Robert Iger was helpless, "I'm still considering it."
"This is too slow!"
"ESPN+'s business will adopt Ziwei Cloud's solution, and this plan has been approved by the board of directors."
"Ah."
Zhou Buqi was quite satisfied.
It’s okay, the initial plan has been achieved.
Integrating ESPN+ into Ziwei Cloud's business will bring in at least $2 million to $3 million in revenue each year.
The better ESPN+ develops and the larger its user base is, the greater the revenue for Ziwei Cloud will be.
The most important thing is that once ESPN+ and Ziwei Cloud establish cooperation, Disney’s future film and television streaming will be inevitable.
Robert Iger said: "However, the sale of ESPN shares is still under discussion. This is a big deal... As you know, ESPN has great market competitiveness and provides Disney with the most stable cash flow income. Many directors are unwilling to give up this part of their rights."
Zhou Buqi snorted, "That's because they are stupid. They don't see the trend of technology at all!"
"Hey!"
Robert Egger sighed.
Zhou Buqi said coldly, "I can tell you responsibly that with the rise of the streaming media industry, more and more technology companies will enter the market to grab the territory that originally belonged to Hollywood. ESPN has developed so well in the past 20 years and almost dominated the sports market. That's because ESPN has not encountered a truly competitive opponent. Once the Silicon Valley technology giants enter the market with streaming media and compete with ESPN, do you think ESPN will still have the current dominant position?"
Robert Iger said: "I have the same concerns."
"That's for sure." Zhou Buqi sounded alarmist. "The current Internet business is gradually transforming from a free model to a paid membership model. This is a major trend. Just like the TV industry in the past, the earliest TV stations were all free. But the real boutique TV stations are cable TV and pay TV that appeared later. Streaming media is the key point for many Internet companies to enter the paid model!"
"Ah?" Robert Iger was surprised. "Doesn't that mean almost all Internet companies will participate?"
Zhou Buqi said: "Of course, no one will miss it. The membership system represents the future of Internet services, and the extension of the membership system is the large membership system. Just like Amazon's membership. Live sports broadcasts of streaming media are very good service projects."
Robert Iger said with embarrassment: "We all understand the reason, but it is difficult to pass the board of directors. Well... you know, many of Disney's TV station operation strategies rely on ESPN. Everyone is worried that once Disney's control over ESPN is weakened, Disney's TV business will collapse."
Disney owns so many TV stations.
Dozens of various kinds.
Many TV stations are useless and few people watch them.
Then the question is, how do these TV stations make money?
The answer is bundling.
If users want to subscribe to ESPN, they also need to subscribe to some of Disney's less popular TV stations. It is by relying on ESPN's dominance in the sports event market that Disney's inferior TV channels are promoted in a bundled manner.
Such a strategy is actually harmful to ESPN.
They promote those useless channels by damaging ESPN's brand value.
If Disney sells some of its shares in ESPN, its control over ESPN will be weakened...especially since Mr. Zhou has never been one to suffer losses. He is not as easy to bully as the Hearst Corporation. Even if Mr. Zhou is only a small shareholder of ESPN, does Disney dare to use the ESPN brand to promote its own Liechtenstein TV station? Isn't this transferring Mr. Zhou's small shareholder interests to Disney?
If Disney can no longer be bundled with ESPN, its cable TV network may collapse.
This is a huge hidden danger.
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