Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 441 The Traitor of America

In the eyes of later generations, this function could not be more basic, even taken for granted, but in [-], it was epoch-making.It marks the first time that cross-device file transfer has been opened up in one software.Later generations of Apple relied on this trick to build a huge technological empire.

For users, this function is the first of its kind in the concept of P2P.They can upload their favorite music to Qianqianjingting, and when they meet their favorite music, they can also save the music into their own account and download it to their computer hard disk and Tianyin MP3.

Seeing Eva skillfully performing professional operations such as "format conversion" and "audio uploading to the Internet", Kailin was shocked on the spot.

You know, before this, music distribution mainly relied on buying hard copies of CDs or tapes.Even if someone recorded the songs and posted them on the Internet, they may not necessarily be in MP3 format, and they are scattered and not organized into a system. How can they be collected and sorted in batches and systematically like Mingyuan Technology?
The model of 'MP3+Internet' is enough to make the distribution and reproduction of the entire music untraceable and uncontrollable.

Kailin can no longer describe her thoughts at this moment in words, and she can even foresee that the Recording Industry Association of the Beautiful Country will definitely be devastated by this dimensionality reduction blow.

After being terrified and uneasy, Kailin was overjoyed: Isn't this the big news I've been looking for! ?
At this moment, she directly ignored the Recording Industry Association, and those stars and companies that rely on music to make money. Anyway, she is not a musician, as long as she can keep her job, it will be fine.

"Dear Eva, you are literally my angel!"

Kailin kissed Eva hard on the forehead, and assured her: "If Mommy deducts your food expenses, I will make it up for you!"

Afterwards, she hummed a ditty and went to write big news.

Hollywood, Bloody Mary Bar.

On the neon signboard, there seemed to be a goblet filled with red liquid.

This is the name of a drink that is very popular in speakeasies and is known as "tomato juice that never gets drunk".

Inside the bar, dim lights, loud music, and restless hormones everywhere.

Lu Yiming and Su Zhenge sat on the high stools, watching the bikini-clad woman squirm in the center of the dance floor.

Su Zhenge took a sip of his cocktail and asked, "I heard that you are in a lawsuit with Dimeng, what's the result?"

Lu Yiming had an indifferent expression on his face, and said with a smile: "I guess I need to get some money out. After all, I'm in a beautiful country, so I can avoid disaster if I lose money. It's probably more than 100 million US dollars."

It has to be said that the laws in the beautiful country are still very sound. Although Lu Yiming took advantage of the loopholes in the advertising law to play a side ball, he still had to pay the fine that should be paid.

To put it bluntly, this money has the same meaning as worshiping the pier.

Foreign companies, how can they not pay protection fees?

Lu Yiming is very open about this. With the current sales volume of Tianyin MP3, 100 million US dollars is just a drizzle, just like the exquisite key chain that comes with buying a Mercedes-Benz.

Hearing what Lu Yiming said, Su Zhenge was also relieved, and then he returned to his playboy nature, and said with a smile: "That Mira fell in love with you, so you are not interested at all? Let me tell you, Men, don’t have so many psychological burdens when you come out to play. Nowadays, rich people, regardless of gender, who doesn’t play outside?”

Lu Yiming waved his hands, lost interest, and said, "Come on, she's several years older than me, and it's not certain that we both play with each other."

When Su Zhenge heard this, he burst out laughing: "My good fellow, you still feel that you are at a disadvantage, don't you?"

Lu Yiming asked, "Do you know anyone from the Recording Industry Association?"

When Su Zhenge saw that Lu Yiming brought up a serious matter, he put away his smiling face and asked, "What do you want to do?"

Lu Yiming said, "I want to buy the copyright."

"Buy copyright?"

Su Zhenge looked at Lu Yiming with eyes like a fool.

"Why buy the copyright? Isn't that MP3 you got, you can download songs directly from the Internet? There are free songs, who would choose to pay for them foolishly?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "That's right, but it's also good to get to know a few more people. Do you have any contacts in this area?"

"Of course, how about I call him now and ask him to come over for a few drinks?"

Lu Yiming said: "This occasion is not suitable, let's wait until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, find a place to have a meal, at least it should be more formal."

"Okay. Tell me anytime you need it."

"Ah."

The two played in the bar for a while, then Lu Yiming went back to live in an apartment he bought in the name of Su Qiao Films next to the office building where Su Qiao Films was located.

The next morning, just after Lu Yiming sat down at the headquarters of Mingyuan Technology, an Asian employee approached him and said, "Mr. Lu, someone from the Recording Industry Association is here and wants to talk to you."

"Oh?"

Lu Yiming couldn't help feeling surprised.

Just told Su Zhenge last night that he wanted to meet people from the Recording Industry Association, and this morning, the people from the Recording Industry Association came?When did Su Zhenge become so reliable?

"Please come in."

After a while, Archie Nelson, the head of the California distribution of the Beautiful National Recording Industry Association, walked in with a few staff members.

Archie Nelson has a curly beard, long hair in a messy shawl, wearing a black leather jacket, full of artistic atmosphere at first glance.

Behind him, there are several middle-aged men in suits and leather shoes, obviously either lawyers or clerks of the Recording Industry Association.

"You are Mr. Lu?"

The tone of Archie Nelson's speech was very offensive, just like others' evaluation of the Pretty Country Recording Industry Association - as far as Lu Yiming understands, the Pretty Country Recording Industry Association is an organization that represents the intellectual property rights of the music recording industry. Take an extremely aggressive attitude towards Internet users who want to freely copy published music.

Obviously, in Archie Nelson's view, Lu Yiming is also an "Internet user who wants to freely copy published music".

Lu Yiming didn't panic at all, and even acted quite enthusiastically: "That's right, I'm Lu Yiming. I entrusted my friend yesterday to meet the Beautiful National Recording Industry Association. I didn't expect you to come this morning. Action!" It's really fast. Do you want some tea? Or coffee?"

Facing Lu Yiming's enthusiasm, Archie Nelson was not moved at all, he said with a strong attitude: "Don't try to bribe me, I came here today to seriously warn you to stop running your Qianqian Jingting in the beautiful country Software, stop your infringement. Otherwise we will sue you!"

"Huh? You were not introduced by Su Zhenge? Misunderstanding."

Lu Yiming couldn't help touching the tip of his nose, and his tone of voice suddenly became serious: "I'm sorry, I thought you were friends. Are you going to sue me again? The Dimension went to court with me yesterday. Besides, upload Songs are voluntary behaviors of users, and our company does not make money from these songs. Want to sue us? Have you won the lawsuit with Diamond?"

As soon as Lu Yiming talked about the lawsuit with the Beautiful Country Recording Industry Association and the Diamond League, Archie Nelson was very depressed.

Since the establishment of the MP3.com website in March [-], the recording industry in the beautiful country has expressed great dissatisfaction with this so-called "free" and "resource sharing" commercial activity.

Because the hundreds of thousands of songs stored on the website belong to the major record companies under the Beautiful Country Recording Industry Association, such as EMI, Sony, Polygram, etc.

The unusually hot and unusual traffic of MP3.com has undoubtedly caused a large loss of traditional record consumer groups, and the record company will lose nearly 50 billion US dollars in revenue every year.

Therefore, in October 3, when Diamond Corporation, which started out producing sound cards, started selling MP3 players, the angry American Recording Industry Association sued Diamond Corporation in a California court.This opened the curtain of a life-and-death struggle between the Beautiful Country Recording Industry Association and MP[-] production, management and players.

The reason for the appeal of the Pretty Country Recording Industry Association is: Diamond’s behavior violated Chapter 10No.17 of the current Copyright Law of the Pretty Country, and the Diamond RIOMP3500 produced by it belongs to the digital recording defined by the [-] Pretty Country Recording Law. A type of device, and thus asked the court to prohibit Diamond from selling the Walkman.

The defendant, Diamond, refuted this, arguing that the function of RIOMP3500 is simply to replay compressed music files, which is not the same as the "independent recording function" stipulated in the Beautiful Country Recording Law. Therefore, RIOMP3500 is not a A recording device.

However, this argument was rejected by a California court.

Because, judging from the text of the law, it does not require that the recording function of the digital recording device must operate independently; secondly, adopting the defense of the defendant will violate the legislative purpose of the Home Recording Law to protect copyright owners.

The final result of the court hearing is: Diamond’s sale of RIOMP3500 may indeed cause damage to the music copyright owner, because according to the provisions of the Home Recording Law, any manufacturer that produces digital recording equipment must install copy management in its equipment. system or other systems with the same function to prevent digital recording files from being illegally recorded.

Therefore, the court ruled that Diamond should deposit a part of the funds with the Pretty Country Copyright Office so that they can be distributed to relevant copyright owners to compensate for the loss of sales of music works that may be caused by the rights owner's use of digital recording equipment by consumers themselves.

However, for the Pretty Country Recording Industry Association, the damage it will suffer is not "irrecoverable damage", so the court rejected the Pretty Country Recording Industry Association's request for the judge to issue a temporary restraining order against the defendant.

Although this round came to an end temporarily with the victory of Diamond Company in the MP3 camp, but immediately afterwards, in order to resist the infringement of illegal recording of online music copyrights, the Beautiful Country Recording Industry Association announced on December 3, 3 Announced on the [-]th to cooperate with the five major record companies and IBM, and plans to launch a set of standard format EMMS[-] for downloading music from the Internet to fight against MP[-].

However, Platinum Entertainment, the largest record company in the United States, has not joined the Alliance of the Beautiful National Recording Industry Association. Instead, it regards the application of MP3 technology as a very good marketing method, and provides songs downloaded as many as 3 times a day through MP3.com. ’s website, which plays the songs of its artists for free.It directly led to the death of the EMMS[-] standard format of the Beautiful National Recording Industry Association.

There is no doubt that although the Beautiful Country Recording Industry Association won the lawsuit in name, it actually lost a mess.

Now that Lu Yiming brought this matter up, he was obviously embarrassing Archie Nelson.

Archie Nelson was just about to refute Lu Yiming, but Lu Yiming changed the subject and said, "However, I consider that you do have difficulties, and I also support the healthy and orderly development of the music industry, so we are willing to pay."

When Archie Nelson heard this, not only was there no joy on his face, but he felt that Lu Yiming was laughing at them, and immediately flew into a rage, saying: "Isn't it all caused by you? It's too shameless to want to buy the copyright now." Already!"

The smile on Lu Yiming's face remained undiminished, he shrugged slightly, and said in a relaxed tone: "Ah, since this is the case, you can continue to ask for no money, I don't care."

"This……"

Archie Nelson is dumb.

Afterwards, he couldn't help being a little proud.

Now that piracy is rampant outside, they can't control it at all. Now he came to the door and said that he would sue Mingyuan Technology. In fact, the threat was more meaningful than the actual significance.

However, what he didn't expect was that Lu Yiming was really frightened and was willing to pay a fee.

For Archie Nelson, it felt like a windfall.

Sure enough, Xia people are easy to bully.

He immediately forgave Lu Yiming's rude remarks to the Beautiful Country Recording Industry Association just now, and said happily: "Let's talk about money..."

Lu Yiming laughed immediately: "That's right, how can there be a fool who doesn't want money?"

Archie Nelson: "..."

Forget it, take the money, bear it.

Lu Yiming reached an agreement with the Beautiful Country Recording Industry Association to pay a fee in exchange for a settlement, and the matter spread like wildfire.That afternoon, the news media broke out.

Afterwards, various news about Qianqian Jingting's upcoming charges began to spread.

Undoubtedly, they feel that Mingyuan Technology has made a very wrong decision.They feel that as long as Qianqianjingting is abolished, Tianyin MP3 will no longer be the opponent of Diamond RIOMP3500.

Subsequently, in the comment area of ​​Qianqianjingting, there were also protests from many users.

They said that they would never pay for Lu Yiming's wrong decision, and they would never pay for songs that could have been free.If Qianqianjingting chooses to charge, they will uninstall this software immediately.

However, Ferdinand Mitford was furious when he heard that Lu Yiming had reached a settlement with the Beautiful Country Recording Industry Association.Curse the Pretty Country Recording Industry Association as a traitor and a traitor, and in vain as a pretty countryman.

(End of this chapter)