Reboot 2003

Chapter 173 081: That bad old man who filmed the Titanic

"Warner Records signed a cooperation agreement with us in January this year, and Galaxy Music spent a huge amount of money to represent a large number of music copyrights under its name."

"Later, Warner Records backtracked and repeatedly awarded the buyout copyright to a third party in the middle of this year. The company's colleagues argued hard, and Warner Records apologized after a month. "

"But after my songtai.com launched in Meijian, they beat me up. Even an 80-year-old man who filmed the Titanic came to chatter with us, trying to teach us to do something that we don't know how to do... …My God, has he ever used a computer?"

"I mean, because we're from a world country on the fringes of the internet, I have absolutely no idea how to deal with these people."

"I'm from China, and my colleagues don't even know English. And my website is signed o-zone, they are from Romania, although the whole Internet is singing their songs, but until they establish a dialogue with fans through our website , their works have always been regarded as gay dance music, of course I don't mean to discriminate against sexual minorities..."

"And my website has been violently enforced by the local police every day recently. They make us squat on the ground with our hands on our heads, and ask us to delete all the content they don't want to see within 3 minutes. I don't know what they want. What……"

An eloquent article, the main point is very clear. It is of course the purpose to imply that someone deliberately suppressed oneself. It is also possible to pretend to be a primary school student by deliberately uttering malicious words. Infringement is the child's ignorance.

As for the basis of all this, to be an 'opinion leader', there must be a voice of opposition at the social level that must stand, and the voice of the public agenda should be brought into this debate.

At this stage, there are not many issues that are more important than copyright, and even fewer are related to Chen Qin himself.

After much deliberation, there were only two main points that came to mind in the end. One was Internet innovation—although we infringed, our website is the front line of new technology development, and it should not be slapped to death.

The other item looks a little more dangerous, but it is also a good card that must be played...

Of course it's not gay. At this stage, Meilijian doesn't have so many gender obsessed people.

But there is another "political correctness", which is the real political correctness now...

After all, the current Meilijian, as a beacon of freedom, went to beat Iraq out of nowhere.

War means disputes in all aspects. The Meijian government has no good way to deal with it. It is a palliative to cover up celebrity scandals after all. For the government and the public, public opinion represents a series of factors such as the attraction of talents and the credibility of the dollar. Economic interests, 'Countries in the marginal world cannot join the wave of the Internet' are of course the most important political correctness in today's cultural environment...

Chen Qin read it twice after writing it, and changed the details a little. I feel that it should be almost the same in general, and now he is trying to pretend to be confused, and the group of elite lawyers probably don't like it if he makes it too clear.

Of course, I also vaguely feel that something is slightly worse.Just as she was contemplating, she turned her head and saw that Xu Lingling was indeed wearing a pair of loose pajama pants, sitting in front of another computer, her small body was very straight...

"What are you looking at?"

Chen Qin leaned over and smelled a faint smell of mint.

Then I found that Xu Lingling was facing a weird-looking getaiwang interface—different from the well-designed page of the Chinese getaiwang. The experience is really bad.

Xu Lingling watched it with great interest, and introduced to Chen Qin that this is a foreign Getaiwang. Recently, Waiguoren is moving a lot of things from the Celestial Dynasty there, and there are many ridiculous things...

Chen Qin asked her curiously: "You don't watch the Waterside Getai, why are you watching this? Although the comment section here is online ahead of time, do you know foreign language?"

Xu Lingling said: "It's not very good. The interface here is not good-looking, and some people post such annoying videos and no one cares about them."

But she said: "There are so many people dancing in that kind of video, it's ridiculous, and there are people dubbing songs from that old movie, look, it's like this..."

To be honest, as the founder of Getai.com, Chen Qin’s products are all copied. He has not done much research on his own products. He and most of the company’s employees with R&D capabilities have spent their energy on browsers and input methods. on these two main items.

Xu Lingling said that she was happy, let Chen Qin sit on a chair, put on headphones for him, and took Boss Chen to browse the English song platform... First, she showed him a video of foreign girls and brothers singing to the camera. Chin knew about it a long time ago—since 2003, a subcultural trend of "amateur dance" appeared on the English-language Internet.

This trend started from "Love of the Linden Tree". It was a foreign fat house deliberately dancing in front of the computer camera in a very high position. While it looked ridiculous, it seemed to be really high, so this video became popular ...

Is it a bit like square dancing?It's actually square dancing.

Just because square dancing has become popular in the mobile era, the application scenarios can be offline.

Today is still the era of the PC Internet. It is impossible to dance in front of the computer, but because it is relatively close to the camera, you can pretend to be singing to make people laugh. This is a cultural phenomenon determined by the technological scene of the era.

Afterwards, Xu Lingling took Chen Qin to watch an animated MV called Axel-F. It seemed to be an album released by a Swedish band called Crazy Frog last year. It was a re-sing of an 80s movie theme song. Popular, if I remember correctly, it should be even more popular next year. It is the second generation of Internet celebrity songs after the love of the linden tree.

Of course it is a cover song, but in fact, I didn’t take the libretto seriously at all, but yelled a few ding ding bang bang in the interlude, isn’t it just shouting Mai?

It is true that there is nothing new under the sun, and when the infrastructure is in place, what should come will always come.

As for the current plane...Although YouTube appeared in China earlier, consumer-grade audio and video processing tools are not yet common. It really doesn't take so much trouble for Mai to dance a square dance.

So now there are no such entertainment videos on Shuixie Getai. Instead, those who are serious about singing or want to play CRBT will start to learn Xu Lingling's arrangement tutorials. This is also a cultural difference caused by the technical environment.

And hearing this, Chen Qin felt that his thoughts began to become active.

In the future, of course, we can build a small tool like AiEdit, but after all, there are no open source projects to copy, and the entertainment content produced by these users does not have much commercial value. Boss Chen’s research and development manpower is very precious... So Xu Lingling If you want to see this kind of thing, you can only go to the English website yourself.

But...it's a trend you can capitalize on.

Thinking of this, Chen Qin hurriedly returned to his computer.

Added a few more paragraphs to the already completed content——

"Our users didn't intentionally use those copyrighted content for their own benefit, they were just using it as a joke, and they didn't make a penny from the copyright owner. I think this should be the case for many old works. An excellent promotional channel."

"And we will delete the content as soon as the copyright owner asks, but even so they are not satisfied. I really don't know what these TV shooters think..."

This writing seems to be almost enough. Although the banner has been raised before, the fact of infringement is really hard to avoid, but just now Chen Qin reacted. Since it cannot be avoided, then pretend to be confused—whether it is young people Strictly speaking, those who like shouting Mai, or want to dance in front of the camera are actually infringing content.

The copyright owner is actually quite lenient on these things. What they hate is the direct infringement of copyright content uploaded through the ugc platform. In fact, there has never been a lot of such content, and it is actually the main source of new users for the video platform.

However, even if these copyrights can be clearly distinguished, those who watch the news may not be able to distinguish clearly. The information about the ugc explosion is undoubtedly an excellent umbrella for various infringing content. Although it may not be able to deceive everyone, a set of Combine punches down...

That night, this blog was directly posted in Chen Aotian’s personal column on Kuaibo.com. Considering that it was originally intended for foreigners, it was translated into English directly and intimately.

Then just the next day, a reporter interviewed Xu Tao, the CEO of Meilijian San Diego.

Ask him, is this blog written by your people?Xu Tao said yes, Chen Aotian is indeed an important member of the decision-making team of the San Diego Group.

And the story came out in the news as 'that bad old man who made the Titanic'.

The content has nothing to do with Cameron, but quotes Chen Aotian from a Chinese software company's response to the recent series of turmoil.

He himself comes from a distant Chinese dynasty and lacks understanding of Meijian society. He even described Lei Shidong as "the bad old man who filmed the Titanic".

But he himself is not bad. He talked about the indifference of marginal world countries by the mainstream society of beauty and solidity. In fact, he himself is not lacking in politeness. For example, he has great respect for sexual minorities.

Redstone is criticized because he has no idea who Redstone is, and this is emblematic of the profound plight of his — and the group he represents — lack of understanding of the American society. …

After the report appeared, it appeared on the push bar of Google News on the second day, and on the homepage of Yahoo and live.com on the third day.

Although it seems to be visible, there is obviously one—or more than one—big hand secretly pushing behind the back, and the voice of opposition is rapidly fermenting.

But no matter what, this blog post published in a corner of the American vision went through a few handovers, and some insights that seemed to be worth pondering were added, and then it was quickly pushed to the forefront of public opinion at the center of the Internet.

(End of this chapter)