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   "The Saipan Music Store will connect with Warner Records as soon as possible, and put all the songs in the copyright library of Warner Records on the Saipan Music Store for sale!"

Hoblow said with excitement that Warner Music is one of the three major record copyright owners in America. With the blessing of Warner Music, the problem of lack of copyright in Saipan Music Store has been directly solved, and Saipan Music Store can also be sold on a large scale. Advertised.

Although the Saipan Music Store has also agreed to many conditions for Warner Records, and also paid a considerable amount of licensing fees, and also distributed the copyright fee to Warner Records, etc., compared to what the Saipan Music Store will get in the future, these All are bearable.

   "The Saipan Music Store, like the Saipan Software Store, will become the most important industry of the Saipan system in the future!"

   A group of people left the conference room, and Ertien was even more busy going around. To be able to participate in this negotiation today, for Ertien, it was a time out.

   Came to the office of the Saipan system, and after entering Hoblow's office, Song Yang said to him.

   "In the future, mobile phone software, records, movies, videos, etc., will be distributed through Saipan Store, which may replace the record channel distributor, the world's largest record channel distributor!

   Saipan system and Saipan store, to have enough users! "

  Song Yang explained to Hoblow that it now seems that the Saipan Music Store or the Saipan Software Store, and even the Saipan system, are only regarded as "vassals" of hardware products such as Alcatel mobile phones or Dimeng MP3.

But after a few years, when users begin to agree with the Saipan system and the Saipan music store becomes the mainstream of the industry, at that time, the Saipan store may become one of the most profitable products in the software industry, just like asking Microsoft to collect money Received a soft operating system in general!

Apple relies on iTunes to make a fortune in silence. Its annual revenue exceeds 10 billion US dollars. Even relying on iTunes to make a profit may not be much worse than selling machines. The key point is that these can be compared to selling machines. The cost is much lower. many.

Hearing Song Yang's great pie, Huobuluo hesitated, but nodded. He made more money than selling machines. Huobuluo felt somewhat unreliable. , I can earn back the US knife that I put into it first, so that he can see the return first!

   "Scour and Kalanick..."

  Hobuluo looked at Song Yang hesitantly. Although Alcatel Mobile, Dimeng, and Saipan Music Store did not blatantly support Scour, they secretly supported several Scour music platforms.

  After all, several music platforms of Scour are like knives, stabbing several major record groups, otherwise, how could Warner Records let go so easily.

   But now, if this side no longer supports Scour and Kalanick and others, then facing the five major record groups, Scour company is estimated to be completely cleaned up.

  Song Yang shook his head. Saipan Music Store began to cooperate with Warner Records. Even if not all of the other major record giants cooperated with Saipan Music Store, there will be a few, just like Warner Records "testing the water".

At this time, it is no longer necessary for Scour to pull back with several major record groups. Moreover, when Scour and Napster collapse, they will give a warning to other platforms that have not obtained the copyright of the record, and also allow users to choose Go to Saipan Music Store!

   "Kalanick will be fine, he won't go to federal prison, and he can go back to the Internet and the tech industry again!"

After all, Kalanick was blocking the gun for the Saipan Music Store. Song Yang couldn't really cross the river and demolish the bridge and sell Kalanick. At most, Kalanick would be "bankrupt" once, and he would suffer a little. With Yang's support, Kalanick will be able to "kill" and return to the technology industry again, and he will not really be killed.

   For companies with Internet concept stocks, from giants to small companies, the valuation and market value are still soaring, and there is no meaning to stop, and the market value continues to hit new highs.

America's technology industry has been quite "calm" in the past few weeks. Although there are news such as Double Click Company's acquisition of Nielsen Data Research Company, the holding of a domain name auction conference, and eBay's rumored listing, the most explosive news is that the record group, cross-border The world is at war with the Internet music platform.

   This is the most lively news on the Internet right now. Several major Hollywood companies have joined forces to encircle Scour. This cross-border battle has attracted the attention of many people.

  Scour, Napster, several Internet music platforms, moved the cheese of Hollywood giants, and were hit by Hollywood records and film and television giants. Everyone knows that this day will come sooner or later.

  I just didn't expect that this time, the record giant seemed to be a bit ruthless, wanting to beat Scour and Kalanick to death, and proposed a huge compensation of 250 billion US dollars, obviously not planning to give Kalanick and them a way out.

  The major Internet companies are also waiting to see whether Scour and Kalanick can survive the copyright lawsuit in Hollywood and the huge compensation.

  If Scour can survive this time, then Hollywood giants such as Yahoo, AOL and even Disney will build their own Internet entertainment platforms!

  Scour, Napster and several major websites did not survive, then Yahoo and other companies entering the record, film and television platforms, they must be more cautious, lest they get fishy without eating meat.

   Just moved from that small office to Scour in a new office building in Los Angeles. Kalanick is discussing with a group of executives how to file a lawsuit with several major record groups!

Kalanick has no way out. Once the lawsuit is lost, it will be a compensation of 250 billion dollars. Of course Hollywood knows that he can't come up with so many dollars, let alone Kalanick. No one can be the scapegoat, just disgust him, let him go bankrupt, take away a penny from Kalanick, and the record group will take away Kalanick's **** example, and give Napster a warning to those companies!

   "So this time, how is Scour going to win this lawsuit?"

Kalanick was irritable, and asked the high-priced legal team, surrounded by Ovitz, Ron Burkel and other investors who had invested money in Scour, and their faces were no better than Kalanick at this moment. where to go.

  Ovitz and the others, but they all invested tens of millions of dollars in Scour, hoping to make a fortune when Scour goes public.

  It’s all right now, let alone make a fortune. Once the Scour lawsuit is lost, they will go bankrupt. By then, the beautiful knives they put in will all be lost, and there will be no turning back.

   This kind of thinking of heaven and hell. Yesterday, I was expecting Scour to make a lot of money. Today is like making an epic bad movie in Hollywood, which is really uncomfortable.

The Hollywood copyright lawyer who paid a lot of money explained to Kalanick patiently, "This is an asymmetric lawsuit. Hollywood has too much evidence against Scour. On the Scour website, it does provide users with too much evidence. Most of the music, movies, pictures, books, etc. are not licensed by Hollywood companies..."

   "Those contents are "shared" between users, not provided by Scour, and those copyrights have nothing to do with Scour!"

   Hearing that Kalanick once again brought out this "chopper innocence" theory, the copyright lawyer rubbed his brows with a headache.

   finally replied to Kalanick, "This is Los Angeles, not the Silicon Valley of San Jose!"

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of Kalanick, Ovitz and others changed suddenly, and the lawyers almost made it clear. Los Angeles is the domain of Hollywood giants, and the federal judges and prosecutors here are not. Will listen to Kalanick's **** defense.

  America has different laws in different places. In Los Angeles, the City of Angels, the rules are set by Hollywood, especially in this kind of copyright lawsuit. Even if Microsoft comes to fight a lawsuit with Hollywood giants, it is estimated that it will have to kneel out!

   "Now for Scour, there are only two ways to settle the lawsuit. The first way is to settle with record groups such as Warner and Universal, and remove all unauthorized music, videos, etc.!"

Just after listening to it, Kalanick shook his head without hesitation. The major record giants were obviously not going to let him go. Moreover, when those music and videos were taken off the shelves, Scour was equivalent to cutting off his own arm. What is the difference between this and bankruptcy? .

Now Scour users come for the resources on the website. Without these resources, those users wouldn't talk about loyalty. Scour glanced.

   Seeing that Kalanick was unwilling to take this path and bowed his head to Hollywood to admit his mistake, the lawyer suggested a second path.

   "Scour, if it can get the support of other Internet giants and cooperate with Microsoft, Yahoo, ICQ, AOL, etc., should make this lawsuit drag on!"

When   Ovitz heard this, he couldn't help but ask, "What's the difference between selling Scour to them?"

  The second way, to put it bluntly, is to find a backer for Scour. In fact, it is still selling one's body, but at this juncture, it is strange that it can be sold for a good price.

   Looking at the angry Ovitz, Kalanick felt helpless for a while. Now it is not a question of whether Scour can sell himself, but who is willing to work against the entire America Records to accommodate Scour.

   Kalanick was tangled in his heart, he didn't want to lose Scour just like that, but he also knew that now was the most critical moment.

   Thinking of Song Yang, Hoblow and others he saw when he was invited to the Alcatel P2 mobile phone launch conference in San Jose before, Kalanick struggled for a while, then took out his mobile phone and prepared to dial the number.

As a result, as soon as he took out his mobile phone, Kalanick's phone rang, and he saw Evan Spiegel's name on the phone. As a fund investor, he invested a large sum of money in Scour, and Scour survived.

   Of course, Kalanick also found out that this guy is actually an ICQ executive, and it is self-evident who he is representing.

Connected to the phone, before Kalanick could speak, Evan Spiegel knocked Kalanick unconscious. Saipan Music Store began to cooperate with Warner Records, behind Evan Spiegel The overseas foundation will also withdraw from Scour, which means that someone Kalanick wants to count on will not save Scour.

But at the end of the call, Evan Spiegel also said to Kalanick that although he didn't mention Song Yang directly, he also promised Kalanick that he would not be in federal prison, nor would he owe a lot of debt. Get up, the most important thing is that Evan Spiegel promises that the big money master behind him will invest in Kalanick's next project!

   After hanging up the phone, Kalanick suddenly felt tired when he saw Ovitz and Scour's executives and lawyers' eyes, "Warner Records and Saipan Music Store are working together!"

   This news surprised Ovitz and others. Scour did change the record industry, but the peaches were picked.

   "Scour, prepare... file for bankruptcy in Los Angeles Bankruptcy Court!"

  Kalanick used all his strength to finally say this. He didn't want the Scour company, he just closed down the company and lost the company to the record group. He would also declare bankruptcy himself.

  Scour has indeed achieved the feat of changing the record industry, but instead of having a taste of victory, it has become cannon fodder before dawn.

   Just when the people who were eating melons were still eating melons from Scour, Warner Records and Saipan Music Store suddenly jointly announced that they had begun to reach an official cooperation, and Warner Records entered the Internet digital music industry!

   "To embrace the future, Warner Music also needs to look forward. If history cannot be changed, then Warner Music will create history!"

Warner Records President Paul Vidic, with a "winner" attitude, declared to the media that he was not forced by companies like Scour to cooperate with Saipan Music Store, but Warner Records took the initiative to do so. have to change.

  Paul Vidic also showed the $100 million licensing fee paid by the Saipan Music Store to tell the outside world that this collaboration was led by Warner Records.

   Although it sounded high-sounding, when the news came out, there was an uproar in America and even the European recording industry. Those singers were still scolding Scour a few days ago, but when they turned around, the global recording industry was dumbfounded.

   For a time, he scolded Warner Records for signing the "Union under the City" with the Saipan Music Store. Paul Vidic is the voice of a thief in the record industry, and it is always heard.

Whether to scold Paul Vidic and Warner Records, the Saipan Music Store can't control it, but the Saipan Music Store that got the Warner Records copyright library immediately launched a large number of music, announcing the Saipan Music Store's copyright library songs, There have been more than 200,000 songs, and a large number of new songs have also been launched.

   Saipan Music Store announced its first small goal of selling one million songs within a month.

On the day when the copyright library was updated, the Saipan Music Store sold 350,000 songs to users around the world, and the sales volume of CRBT exceeded 150,000. The Alcatel P2 mobile phone once again ushered in a new high sales volume since its launch, and the Dimeng MP3 was sold out in America. goods!