“Internet giant Yahoo is accused of plagiarism by new unicorn Riot Games”
"The evidence of Yahoo's plagiarism is conclusive, and the IP addresses of those who moved the content point to Tower A of the Yahoo office building."
Since electronic payment software was to be developed in the future, Zhou Xin asked Louis to lead the establishment of a specialized information security department.
I just didn’t expect that the first shot of this department was not to build a security system for electronic payment software, but to locate the IP address of the person who posted the message, and then to the real-life address through the IP address.
Coincidentally, the Yahoo office building uses a dedicated line, which means that the entire office building uses a dedicated IP.
Rather than sharing it with other buildings.
There is no way to deny it.
“The IP of the content porter of the Yahoo Game Community was alleged by Riot Games to be located at 721 N Mathilda Ave., First Avenue, Sunnyvale, where Yahoo’s office is located.”
After a complete chain of evidence was formed, public opinion further fermented.
"You did a great job, leaving Yahoo unable to fight back.
They were a little overwhelmed.
I have never seen Jerry fail to speak out under such circumstances. "Bill Gates smiled proudly.
When the entire North American Internet and even the global Internet were in an uproar because of this incident, Zhou Xin was sunbathing with Bill Gates in a high-end coffee shop in San Francisco.
"Because their methods were so clumsy, I formed a complete chain of evidence.
They have no way to deny it. "
Bill Gates raised his cup of coffee and said, "We need to celebrate."
For Bill Gates and Microsoft behind him, Yahoo is a direct competitor.
Although Yahoo does not make an operating system, Microsoft wants to be an Internet service provider, and Microsoft is not willing to just make an operating system.
Whether it was the acquisition of Hotmail or later MSN, Microsoft has shown strong interest in communication software.
And now Yahoo's Yahoo Mail is their biggest enemy.
In the past, Yahoo has been suppressing Microsoft in the Internet service battlefield.
In the minds of users, Microsoft is a product of the previous era, and Yahoo represents the future.
Therefore, Bill Gates is very happy to see Yahoo suffer, or suffer at the hands of the companies he invests in.
Zhou Xin took a sip of coffee and added: "It also includes credit for the media resources you introduced me to.
Without the cooperation of these media, we would not have been able to create such a big momentum so quickly.
The number of users in the Riot Games community has been growing rapidly recently, and the growth this week has exceeded the total of the past two months.
At present, our number of global users has officially exceeded one million, and a large part of them are from Europe. "
Bill Gates seemed to remember something, "I have many media friends who want to interview you.
Murdoch, you know?
The boss of the New York Post and the Boston Herald wants to interview you. Of course, it depends on your wishes. If you are willing, I will ask my secretary to tell him later, and someone from his side will contact you then. "
Zhou Xin shook his head: “The New York Post and the Boston Herald are not of high quality.
I have to be interviewed by the New York Times or Time. "
Bill Gates laughed and said, “I didn’t expect you, like me, to despise the New York Post.
I need to have a good chat with him. "
“I don’t mind being interviewed, but it’s just not the right time for me to come out.
Everyone's attention is being drawn to the battle between Yahoo and Riot Games itself, and I can't draw the audience's attention to me at this time. "
"That makes sense.
Your behavior this time has given me a lot of inspiration. For infringements that cannot be defined in a legal sense, we can punish each other on the basis of public opinion.
The war in the Internet industry is not just at the product level, and it is not necessarily limited to whose product can attract customers more.
We can also extend further to traditional industries, such as media.
Building your own brand and destroying the other party's brand is a higher-dimensional war.
Yahoo's brand image has been seriously damaged, which is the biggest blow to them. "
Bill Gates had some thoughts on this matter, but Zhou Xin shook his head and said that there was something wrong with his thinking: "Not all plagiarism incidents can cause such a big stir.
The reason why Yahoo is so troubled by our counterattack is that the opponents they need to face are not just Riot Games.
But all online forums.
Yahoo can do this to Riot Electronics Community, which means it can also do it to other online forums.
Yahoo itself controls the entrance to the Internet, and with such huge traffic, if it continues to carry the content of other online forums without any lower limit, then other online forums will have no room to survive.
Behind the scenes, all online forums came together to attack Yahoo.
At the same time, Yahoo's previous plagiarism behavior only limited to plagiarizing the design of other portals and the content of other portals, which was not deeply felt by users.
For users, they will find this a convenience, and they are insensitive to plagiarism.
But this time Yahoo directly copied the content generated by users. You posted a post and enjoyed the feeling of many people replying below. This feeling of being surrounded is caused by the content you created.
Suddenly, someone else removes your content without any warning. This kind of plagiarism is harmful to users.
Of course, we are also behind it.
The combination of various factors resulted in such a violent response.
If it were an ordinary infringement, it would have no impact on Yahoo at all. "
This is why during the 3Q war in later generations, basically all Internet companies that Goose Factory did not have a stake in stood on the side of 360, and everyone was really afraid.
Some people are happy, while others are exhausted.
Yahoo's executives are the ones getting the most bang for their buck.
In one week, Yahoo's stock price fell by 20%.
More importantly, Yahoo's corporate image has suffered a heavy blow.
They just issued a statement saying that this was user behavior, and then they were slapped in the face with fist screenshots and found out the IP address of the poster.
The feeling of being slapped on the face by the opponent as soon as you hit the opponent's arm with your punch is really uncomfortable.
"Jerry, please answer why Yahoo copied the content of Riot Electronics Community?"
"Jerry, Yahoo's stock price keeps falling. When do you think the stock price will stabilize?"
"Jerry, was Yahoo's plagiarism of Riot Games community content authorized by you or was it the arrogance of senior executives?"
Jerry Yang would rather stay in Silicon Valley than come to Wall Street.
But there was no way. Yahoo's stock price suddenly collapsed, and he needed to go to Wall Street to appease investors.
It cannot cause Yahoo's stock price to collapse further.
As a result, when he arrived in New York, the reporters here found out where he was staying in the hotel and asked him questions while he was going out. They also asked him questions that he couldn't answer.
