Don't give me black technology

Chapter 36 Disagreement
"Of course there is a way." Meng Xiaobai had thought about this problem a long time ago, and he elaborated: "First of all, we can buy the videos of those popular film and television works. It is also a good thing for users to download their video content and interact. Will not refuse."

"Secondly, we can start a charging model. For example, let some high-quality users become video authors and sign authorization contracts with them. Users need to pay for using their videos to change faces, and this part of the fee is shared with them."

"Finally, we can also make our own video special effects for users to change faces or shoot!" Meng Xiaobai analyzed, "For example, Jimeng Camera, which is produced by Feiyin's parent company, and many authors of Feiyin's short videos use Jimeng Camera. It has similar functions, such as anime stickers, cartoon face-changing special effects and so on. 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 any point you said will require a lot of money! Buying copyrights? Do you know how much it costs to buy out the copyrights of 10,000+ popular film and television works at one time? Say less than a billion!"

"Users pay to use videos? ZAI is free, but we pay, how can we compete with it? And how much additional expenses do 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, and you don't need to worry about operational matters, 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 going in a direction he didn't want to see.

In the next week, the users of Variety Show continued to grow at a high speed, and even began to compete with ZAI-Fenglian drama software to compete for the user market.

Topics related to Variety Show software have also become popular on the Internet, and some media even praised it as the most potential APP of this year!

Therefore, Langya once again allocated 2 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 200 million!
The company seems to have chosen to turn a blind eye to Meng Xiaobai's concerns about copyright and user privacy violations, and has no sense of improvement.

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

Meng Xiaobai knew very well that the company now has only one goal - to keep increasing the number of users!

"Director, our application to be listed in the Apple App Store has been rejected." Gan Hua Ronghui reported, "The reason is that our software is suspected of violating user privacy."

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

"There is no response. It is estimated that they do not plan to launch the APP on the Apple App Store in a short time." Gan Huarong replied.

"I see, go ahead." Meng Xiaobai said.

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

Three days later, Meng Xiaobai was working, when Pan Yu suddenly came to his office and said, "Xiao Meng, quickly ask someone to disconnect the server connection, and send an announcement to the outside world, saying urgent maintenance."

"What's wrong?" Meng Xiaobai asked in surprise, "Why did you interrupt the connection to the server? There is nothing wrong with the server?"

"I encountered some trouble in the review, you should do it first." Pan Yu didn't explain too much, but judging from his expression, it was not a good thing.

Meng Xiaobai asked someone to do so, and soon, users of the Variety Show app saw the notification that the software was under urgent maintenance and was expected to open in three hours.

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

"It's hard for me to say." Gao Yuan's expression was tangled.

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

"This...well, don't tell Boss Pan later that I said it." 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 switched to that kind of indecent video of men and women through smart face-changing. That person also sent the video to the female user's family."

"Her family believed it was true. Her husband asked for a divorce. The user was also in great pain, so she approached the media for help and planned to sue us for copyright infringement."

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

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

"Then how did you deal with it?" Meng Xiaobai continued to ask.

"What else can I do? Of course, hurry up to public relations!" Gao Yuan said, "This time I discovered it early, and it hasn't spread on the Internet yet. The public relations department has already asked the media to delete the relevant reports. We contacted the female user and told She reached a private settlement, and it is estimated that she will be compensated tens of thousands of yuan for mental damage."

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

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

"No, I'm going to find Boss Pan!" Meng Xiaobai couldn't sit still, he had a hunch that this was just the beginning, if the user agreement was not changed for a day, and the uploading and review of the material library were restricted, such things would happen more and more .

"Hey...don't be impulsive!" Gao Yuan pulled him back and warned, "The number of users of Variety Show is growing too fast now, and everyone just turns a blind eye. It's Mr. Pan who agrees, and the other bosses Would not agree."

"I have to make it clear!" Meng Xiaobai said solemnly, "I developed this thing, and I have a certain responsibility. This time it was dealt with 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 incidents will be caused because of our inaction?"

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

"You go." She said after a moment of silence, obviously supporting Meng Xiaobai's actions in her heart.

Meng Xiaobai went straight to Pan Yu's office. At this time, there was another person in Pan Yu's office, another vice president of Langya Company, Wu Baiyu.Although the two often fight openly and secretly, it seems that both of them are in a good mood at this time.

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

"It is for sure!" Pan Yu said confidently, "Our technology is more powerful than ZAI, and many ZAI users have already flowed to our APP."

"It seems that the establishment of the Variety Show project is a stroke of genius!" Wu Baiyu said, "I think this data will be shown to the directors of the head office, and [-]% can approve the Variety Show project to become independent and establish a new Variety Show project. Show company!"

"Yes, with our current potential, we may not be smaller than Langya in the future!" Speaking of this, Pan Yu also expressed excitement in his tone. As long as the company is established, he will naturally be the president of the new company.

"You did a great job, I will vote for you." Wu Baiyu said clearly.Now it is a certainty that the Variety Show project will grow bigger. In this case, there is no need for him to fight with Pan Yu. It is better to give him a favor.Besides, as long as Pan Yu leaves, he will be the biggest vice president in Langya Company!

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

(End of this chapter)