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   Chapter 631 Black Hand

  The media likes to join in the fun and tout. When Sean Fanning appeared in front of the media, he was immediately pushed out and compared with Song Yang.

   After all, Song Yang and Sean Fanning at the moment seem to have the same experience, and many media have also started touting Sean Fanning as a Bruno Song!

   This is not a derogatory term. Although Song Yang's age is only two years older than Sean Fanning's, Sean Fanning's status in the Internet is beyond the reach of Sean Fanning.

  The media touted Sean Fanning as the next Song Yang, absolutely touted it. Behind this, the gang of venture capital institutions that invested in the Napster website must have fanned the flames.

   But Sean Fanning's outing really made Internet music become popular, and the valuation of Scour, Napster, and MP3 sites has been raised one after another. These Internet music sites are touted as changing the entire record industry.

   Not only these websites, but also several major portals such as Yahoo, AOL, MSN, and Lycos, as well as search engines such as Infoseek and Excite, have also launched their own music sections and communities.

  Be careful, and ask the record company and producer for a power of attorney. It doesn’t matter if you don’t give it, anyway, the major music websites now have no copyrights…

The entire record industry has yet to react. The five major record groups are still busy attacking each other at this time, wanting to annex each other, or poach the singer of the other party, but they don't even notice that the industry is a black hand in the industry. Appeared!

   At this time, the record industry was in full swing. The five major record groups earned $37 billion last year, and top singers such as Michael Jackson continued to set new records in record sales.

Even the rap, hip-hop and other songs played by the African-American singers that originally belonged to the niche, but also because of the popularity of the record industry, the sales of records have soared. Intoxicated and intoxicated, he got up.

Think about it, the record industry that earns 37 billion dollars a year, if you add music-related industries such as Walkman, DVD, variety shows, concerts, music derivatives, and song peripheral products, if you add up, this is An industry with a yearly revenue of more than 100 billion US dollars!

   Such a behemoth suddenly had a small website from the Internet industry, saying that it would defeat the top five records, or even replace them. What would the top five record companies do when they heard the news for the first time?

   Those singers, producers, distribution companies, record retail stores, etc., after hearing this, they all have to look at the faces of Internet music websites. They are afraid that they are not going to laugh out loud.

As a result, Internet music sites, following the venture capital industry in Silicon Valley, are booming, but in the record industry, they have not caused much trouble, and there are no Hollywood people who will think about killing Scour and Napster. die.

  In addition to several Napster websites that want to engage in "Internet exchange files", the Saipan Music Store has also quietly launched.

Unlike Scour and Napster, which do not have any music copyrights at all, they put various music links online, allowing users to exchange music with each other, or convert CDs in their hands into tens of megabytes of MP3 music links, and then play It is freely available for download on sites like Napster.

The Saipan Music Store dominates the genuine music. The music in the Saipan Music Store copyright library is all genuine music. Users can listen to it, but after the trial time, if you want to download it, you need to buy it. The cost of each song is $0.99, subject to change for newest albums or songs.

The appearance of   Symbian music store has indeed attracted some attention. When the media saw that this is the music website launched by the Saipan system under Alcatel Mobile, many media reported it.

But when you see that Saipan Music Store is actually a paid music website, users cannot upload songs, and users are prohibited from distributing them privately. Songs downloaded from Saipan Music Store are sent to third-party platforms or players. The songs in the store have authentication codes to ensure that the link will not be spread.

These technologies and means are not very superb, but for most users, it is difficult to crack them. If you are a professional, you will spend so much effort just to listen to a song. Saipan Music Store also recognizes it. Yes, as long as he doesn't bother.

Like several other music websites, a large number of songs, including the latest albums and songs, can be found in one search, while on the Saipan Music Store, all those old songs can be found in one search, and there are so many restrictions. The most important thing is that, Pay to listen, which makes the user scale of the Saipan music store far from the skyrocketing Napster websites.

   Even if a number of brother companies such as ICQ, Xue Leshan Online Platform, Forita Antivirus, Hotmail and so on help to advertise, the user scale of Saipan Music Store has never been able to increase.

   However, the Saipan Music Store does not seem to be too impatient. Apart from letting websites such as ICQ help to advertise, there is no big fanfare of spending money to advertise, with an air of indifference to the world.

Saipan Music Store first found the American Records Association Bai Pier, and wanted to let Saipan Music Store, as a music publisher, join the Recording Association, but for the application of Saipan Music Store, the American Recording Association , but a little indifferent, and did not directly agree.

  The Saipan Music Store then sent out cooperation requests to Universal, EMI, Sony, Warner, and BMG, and wanted to get their copyright libraries.

   "Saipan Music Store?!"

Ames, president of Warner Music, when he took over the documents his subordinates brought over, when he saw this name he had never heard before, he didn't know where the music store came from. As soon as he came up, he wanted to get it Warner Music's copyright library.

  Ames really can't figure out who gave the Saipan Music Store the courage to want to take away the music copyright library of Warner Records.

   "This is a music website owned by Alcatel Mobile. The biggest investor in Alcatel Mobile is Bruno Song!"

  Warner Records staff said to Ames, hearing Song Yang's name, Ames chuckled, "Who does he think he is, to make a Hollywood movie, he can order Warner Records?!"

The subordinate reminded Ames, "The voice of Internet music is very loud now, and the marketing department is worried that Internet music will affect the sales of records. Warner Records should have its own Internet music sales channels. If you want to enter the Internet music industry. , Bruno Song might be a good collaborator..."

Hearing that Warner Records wanted to discuss a collaboration with an outsider, Ames raised his head and asked directly, "Does Bruno Song understand music? His Saipan music store has taken a few Grammys, and you think Let Warner Records cooperate with an Internet company that doesn't understand music?"

  Ames directly sent the Saipan Music Store, the cooperation document, and threw it into the trash can, not even interested in seeing each other.

  Warner Records, didn't even want to discuss cooperation with Saipan Music Store, and didn't even have any interest in replying. The other major record groups were not much different, so they were not interested in wasting any time with Saipan Music Store.

   Internet music sites began to pop up constantly, and the Saipan Music Store could only be regarded as the inconspicuous one.

In the graphics card industry, news came out, and suddenly the media broke the news that Dimeng Graphics reached a cooperation with Alcatel Mobile. The latter invested 50 million US dollars in Dimeng and became the second largest shareholder of Dimeng with 25% of the shares. .

   For the media's revelations, Dimeng did not deny it. This news has set off a storm in the graphics card industry, and several major graphics card manufacturers such as NVIDIA, 3DFX, and ATi can't help but feel a little nervous.

   The graphics card industry seems to be lively, but compared to the mobile phone industry, it is now only a small business. Compared with the current NVIDIA and 3DFX major graphics card manufacturers, Alcatel mobile phones belong to giant companies.

Alcatel Mobile suddenly invested in Dimeng, which inevitably made several major graphics card manufacturers nervous. I wonder if Alcatel Mobile is interested in graphics cards. You must know that PA Semiconductor is located in the Alcatel Mobile Park, so it entered the graphics card industry. It seems to have said it in the past.

But beyond the graphics card industry's expectations, Dimeng, which has received investment, seems to be a little quiet. Except for claiming to develop a new generation of "monster" high-end graphics cards, there is no movement in the graphics card industry, but it is upright and bright. Announced that Dimeng will launch new products in the near future.

  Song Yang didn't have much reaction after receiving the news that Saipan Music Store was on the side of the five major record groups, and it was not successful.

   The five major record companies that have not yet been beaten, how can they understand the sinister heart of the Internet. After they are beaten by pirated music, they will remember the benefits of Saipan music stores that support genuine music.

When the major record groups are beaten to pieces, they don't need to go to the Saipan Music Store, as long as the sales of the OEM MP3 with Dimeng are good enough, and then bind the Dimeng MP3 to the Saipan Music Store, no matter how big or small. Small record groups, or singers, producers, etc., will come to cooperate with Saipan Music Store.

   Song Yang is now concerned about how far Eric, who went to old Europe, has achieved now, and how far he has fought with the LVMH group.

  Even if the acquisition of Gucci fails, it will not have much impact on Song Yang, but it will inevitably cause some trouble. Song Yang still hopes that RICK can take a hit and take Gucci into the bag, and Song Yang can also have an extra cash cow.

   While thinking about it, the phone on the table rang.

   (end of this chapter)