Reboot 2003

Chapter 167 075: Copyright Advantage

The police quickly took control of this office. The neighbors in the next office watched curiously through the corridor. They saw a policeman holding a camera and snapping randomly at the room. The man in the suit followed suit. Come in, scan around the room, but don't find the person you're looking for.

He was so angry that he kicked a programmer who was squatting on the ground: "Where is Tao'xu? Where is he?"

Programmer complains: "Oh, what are you kicking me for?"

A black policeman elbowed the man in the suit. The man in the suit didn't punch or kick him anymore, but he still cursed, "You are a bunch of robbers!"

The policeman with a camera explained to the two people squatting: "You have been sued for infringing 200 copyrighted content property rights of Warner Music, and now you must cooperate with our forensic investigation!"

The man in the suit also announced aggressively: "Your end is here, thieves in San Diego, hand over your criminal boss!"

"He's not here," argued one programmer, "and he's not breaking the law."

"What? Oh my God, look here," the man in the suit saw Britney's dance mv playing on a computer, and yelled angrily, "This is the copyrighted content of our Warner Records, but you are using it openly. It's on your own website, you robbers, now that the evidence is in front of you, do you still want to quibble?"

"It was uploaded by users, not us." The Mexican programmer argued, "We are a video technology provider, so it is unfair for you to destroy our office!"

"I don't care who uploaded it, but you have violated the copyright of Warner Records, this is the criminal evidence!"

"I mean, sir, it's the user who violated your copyright. We don't know about it. If you tell us, I can cooperate with you and delete it within 3 minutes."

The fat police officer reminded him: "But the copyrighted content does appear on your website. If you have no intention of infringing other people's copyrights, why didn't you refuse to accept these videos from the beginning, or refuse to make them public?"

"Gentlemen, we just provide video hosting service for free, so that users uploaded it to our server knowing that it is copyrighted content, now we are all victims, you should tell us the list, not a Kick open the door of our office if we disagree."

"Then why don't you check carefully?"

"You see, there are only two of us, and our website has tens of thousands of new registered users every day..."

"This is ridiculous. I must send you all to prison, as well as your Chinese boss surnamed Xu, and delete all copyrighted content from this website forever!"

"You're right, but officer, if you finish talking, we can help you delete those copyrighted content now..."

"Then you try it?"

"I mean, it's easy, if you don't pin us to the ground, we can cooperate with you from the beginning..."

Under the watchful eyes of a group of policemen and Warner's legal staff with bad eyesight, the two programmers deleted the copyrighted content on the screen in just 3 minutes, and also wrote down the copyrighted content provided by Warner's company. list, guaranteeing that they will all be gone by the end of the day.

After that, Warner's legal counsel was quite unconvinced, but the police didn't seem to mention the arrest.

"My God, why don't they just get caught? These guys are the same thieves who stole all the property from the content companies..."

"Okay, but the order we received instructed to cooperate with you in collecting evidence. What they said seems to make sense..."

"You're letting him get away with it!"

"Honestly, we sympathize with you, but so far no one has been able to prove that they deserve to go to jail. We are responsible for the public support of the police department..."

Saying that, the blue-clothed policemen left. Although the legal officer was not convinced, he just gave the two programmers a vicious look, and then followed.

Leaving a messy office behind, the two programmers complained about cleaning up the mess, closed the door, but picked up the camera next to it as usual, and continued to dance their dance.

And next to the computer that was turned on, another computer camera was emitting quiet reflections. It had a panoramic view of the images in this office. After being transmitted through the Pacific Optical Cable, it was sent to a laptop computer in an inland province of China. among.

"Are they gone?"

Xu Lingling leaned her head to the side and asked curiously, Chen Qin said, "Maybe he's gone."

"They don't seem to care at all..."

"Because I've been here once in the morning, and it's Disney's in the morning."

"Why? Such a good website, everyone can have something to read, and can make money..."

"It's true in China, but didn't you ask me about Chen Bin the day before yesterday..."

"So...by the way, when you said Chen Bin that day..."

"That's right, the current situation is actually similar, but they are the parents, and I am Chen Bin..."

Xu Lingling probably also understands what copyright is, and of course she can understand what is going on with the pictures on the screen.

Lately... everything has been going well.

Getai en is very popular every day. The copyright holders lined up to inspect the office of Getai en. It can’t be said that it is very lively, but it can only be said that they can hardly do anything. The top programmers recruited by these two are probably used to it. .

However, this was also expected.

In the ugc model, the user-uploaded content platform itself is a strong content production method, with the advantages of low cost and video social networking. Of course, it has its advantages, but it also has the problem that the type of creation is difficult to control.

Of course, there are many details worth talking about, but when the budding online video—that is, when the YOUTUBE model first appeared, its advantages actually lie in other aspects.

That is the unique advantage of copyright.

The videos created purely in the ugc mode are now the kind of indoor square dance videos. Although it does have its merits and has indeed brought a lot of attention to getaien, it is obviously not the most successful YouTube. The key factor—it’s only 2004 now, and the dancing video of Lime Tree Love is already very popular. This kind of content is common on Newground and other comprehensive entertainment websites, and many netizens like it...

And YouTube only appeared in 2005, and its advantages are obviously not only in terms of user creation.

Judging from the future results, YouTube's ugc model obviously contains a lot of gray content such as 'user-uploaded pirated resources', although this is not all of it, and if it simply provides pirated resources, then of course it will not be better than other Where are the strengths of video sites.

But as Chen Qin said that day——

First of all, copyright infringement is a typical charge of personal prosecution. If the copyright owner does not claim it, it will be difficult for others to remove it even if the unauthorized pirated resources are illegal.

Secondly, although it is equivalent to launching a 'Napster' in the video field, that is, the pirated music website founded by Sean Parker a few years ago, it was beaten up by traditional record companies within two years of its launch, Sean Parker himself hardly made a few cents from Napster. Later, when he heard this, he had a headache like seeing a ghost when he heard about the video site...

But YouTube is not so rigid. It is willing to cooperate with the copyright owner in defending its rights.

Coupled with a timely advertising strategy, in short, this piracy model has become a business model that can be industrialized.

Now that Chen Qin brought this thing to Meilijian, the route of ring tones and digital music is more troublesome, so he simply took the YouTube route of the original space-time. It is precisely because of this that the commercial promotion of the website is not distracted, and it is a deliberate countermeasure.

But I didn't expect "Love of the Linden Tree" to be so popular. Although this is a good thing, it seems that it is time to think about what to do in the future.

Of course... At this time, it is inevitable that I will think of the conversation with Chen Bin before.

Chen Bin did not show up again. I heard that this time he really went back to Hanzhang City. As for whether he will work honestly or continue fooling around, that is beyond Chen Qin's control.

However, Chen Qin told him at the beginning, "Don't do to others what you don't want done to you"...

Although UGC itself does not stick to the pan, it is only taking advantage of loopholes. Once the copyright owner is angered, it will still be unlucky when it should be unlucky.

This is actually somewhat similar to Chen Bin’s approach—in a sense, the YouTube model is like Chen Bin’s. It is instigating users to steal things from their own homes and use the things they bring as profit for their website. content.

It seems very difficult to define, but it is actually against the law.

From this point of view, it feels like we are in the same boat as Chen Bin now... No, or it would be more accurate to say that they share the same stink.

But when Chen Qin talked to Chen Qin, this was not the only thing he thought of...

Although YouTube violates the interests of copyright owners, it is a product that conforms to the spirit of the Internet. At least it is a good thing for users, and it also represents the general trend of Internet streaming media replacing TV.

However, after all, besides this, there were indeed other arrangements. Three days later, when Chen Qin was in class, Lao Xu sent an email with an important message—"Boss, Zuckerberg said that he would like to to talk to you."

(End of this chapter)