The sun sets in the west, and the sky is like a sea of fire.
With a uh sound, Yang Mi lay limply at the end of the bed, one arm hanging down weakly, and the shining silver handcuffs on her wrists shaking slightly.
Lu Fei tied the belt of his nightgown and walked out of the bedroom while flipping through the unread text messages on his phone. Suddenly his eyes shrank slightly and he quickly came to the living room and turned on the TV.
In the news from Yanjing TV, at the bottom, there is a blue background and white text with the title "Sohu takes the lead in launching the first 'anti-piracy war' on video websites, claiming 100 million yuan."
Zhang Chaoyang occupied three-quarters of the entire screen and said grandly: "Pirate websites always use the 'safe harbor principle' to shirk their responsibilities. They always argue that they can't find the copyright owner, but can they just broadcast it if they can't find it?" ?
Isn’t it your computer? Can you just take it home? Even when the owner came looking for it, he still refused to acknowledge it as if nothing happened! "
"Zizzi."
Lu Fei smacked his lips and called Lu Huateng, "I read Zhang Chaoyang's interview. It's not as innocent as we thought."
Lu Huateng said in surprise: "Yeah, I really didn't expect that his first shot was to hit Xunlei and Tudou.com, and he was so blatant."
On the TV, Zhang Chaoyang's voice could be heard clearly: "Some video websites keep claiming that they support genuine copyrights, but in fact less than 10% of the copyrights purchased are pirated, and more than 90% are still pirated.
There are even more outrageous things, and I won’t name them here. They invest in many video websites, condone and even encourage piracy. If piracy is a crime, this is simply more sinful than the crime itself! "
"The drunkard doesn't care about the wine, he comes here for the penguins."
Lu Fei watched Zhang Chaoyang criticize Sang and Huai, his squinted eyes flashing with light. With a little investigation, he could find out that Xunlei and Tudou.com had investments in Penguin. As long as public opinion was guided, Penguin could easily be regarded as the real behind-the-scenes supporter of piracy. fierce.
"They were very smart in choosing to build the eucalyptus in Nanshan."
Lu Huateng said: "It's a little tricky."
"It's really tricky."
Lu Fei nodded in agreement. It was obvious that Zhang Chaoyang and his gang must have carefully considered the choice of Nanshan. Penguin has never lost any court case held in this place, so that it has the reputation of "Nanshan's Strongest Legal Department" and "Nanshan Pizza Hut". That's it.
In the lawsuit against Tudou and Xunlei, if you win the lawsuit, you will be fined, which means victory in the first battle. Once you lose the lawsuit, you will not worry about it and secretly arrange "conspiracy theories."
The reason why Sohu's anti-piracy alliance failed was not because we were incompetent, but because the enemy cheated. The finger pointed directly at Penguin, which had to be labeled as the "source of piracy."
"Zhang Chaoyang is claiming to be 'anti-piracy' and wants to compete with Penguin and Tudou for the number one video website."
Lu Huateng said: "Gu Yongqiang said that after receiving reliable information, they will launch a second wave of offensive soon. The targets may be Baidu and Sogou. The reasons are similar. Hotlinking technology sacrifices piracy."
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"What the hell is the reason? Isn't it just that I'm greedy for the traffic portals of Sogou and Baidu? I want to take advantage of this opportunity to launch my self-developed search engine!"
Lu Fei smiled disdainfully. Wang Xiaochuan was already his informant in the search for tigers. It was ridiculous that Zhang Chaoyang didn't know that the CTO had abandoned the secret and turned to the bright side.
Lu Huateng said firmly: "Then we must fight back! He has already taken action, there is no reason for us to be beaten passively."
"Of course you have to fight back, but the penguin can't do anything."
Lu Fei rolled his eyes, "The key now for Tudou is to clean up internally. Without the energy, let Xunlei be launched. Xunlei is also among Sohu's first wave of targets. Zou Shenglong's response is reasonable."
After that, the two of them started a copyright war for video websites. Sohu was just an appetizer, and websites like Ku6 and LeTV, which had no capital to cover their heads and waists, were the real feast.
Before I knew it, smoke filled the air.
A breeze blew slowly, and Yang Mi was awakened by the strong smell of smoke. She climbed up with difficulty, took off her blindfold, and turned around to see Lu Fei with his legs crossed and a few cigarette butts stuck in the ashtray at hand.
I saw him crushing the cigarette butt fiercely: "Let Sohu see what a real business war is like."
"S-Senior."
This was the first time she saw Mr. Lu like this.
He waved and said: "Climb over here, I'm a little angry now."
…………
For two days, Sohu continued to build momentum and pursue the victory.
Then he left Yanjing and went straight to Pengcheng, the base camp of Penguin, and repeated his old tricks, planning to attract the media and seize the commanding heights of public opinion before the trial.
On the same day, at the same time, and in the same hotel, Xunlei convened a media conference next door to Sohu's press conference, setting up a stage and going head-on.
Moreover, Zou Shenglong launched a sneak attack and personally led five or six people to stand in the corridor. They all stood with serious expressions and each held a huge display stand. The posters without exception were bombarded -
The thief shouts "Catch the thief!" Expose the "fake anti-piracy alliance" of Sohu, YouPengPule, and Exciting.com.
In an instant, the media, who were keenly aware of the explosive point, joined in the fun and swarmed in.
I saw a dense row of Xunlei employees distributing promotional materials. As long as someone stepped forward to inquire, a copy titled "Ten Questions on Sohu, Is the Piracy Leader Enabled to Fight Piracy?" "The manuscript will be handed to you.
"What's going on? What's going on?"
President Youpeng Pule came out of the elevator, and the smile on his face instantly froze due to the noisy scene in front of him.
"Why are you all crowding at the door and not going in?"
Zhang Chaoyang asked Sohu employees who arrived at the scene in advance.
Before he could say anything, a loud voice was heard from the roaring crowd: "The reason why Xunlei did this is firstly because of opposition, and secondly because of confusion. The original intention of Sohu and Youpeng Pule to fight against piracy is not at all In order to fight against piracy, it is an unfair competition that is carried out in the name of rights protection and encirclement and suppression..."
"Is there someone from Thunder inside?!"
President Youpeng Pule was surprised and immediately called to the lobby manager who was at a loss. "What are you doing for food? How could you let the troublemakers in! Get them away quickly!"
"Kick him away?" The lobby manager looked confused.
"Yes, do you still want me to teach you?"
Seeing him in a dilemma, President Youpeng Pule remained motionless. Anger welled up from his chest: "Security, call security. Get all these unreasonable and irrelevant people out of the hotel. Do you understand now?"
"But they are not irrelevant personnel." The lobby manager shrank his head and weakly reminded Xunlei that like them, they were also distinguished guests of the hotel and had reserved a living room with the same specifications.
"This is coming to our doorstep."
Zhang Chaoyang looked at the endless media, not wanting to have an unnecessary conflict with Xunlei in front of so many cameras, so he quickened his pace and walked towards the venue.
However, how could Zou Shenglong let them achieve their wish? He raised his voice and emphasized: "Actually, I am not surprised by their actions, especially Youpeng Pule. He is Xunlei's competitor and also his loser, because he started too late. There is not much room for development in the online video field, so we can only cooperate with Sohu to slander and frame Xunlei in the name of 'anti-piracy'."
"You're talking nonsense!
"
President Youpeng Pule immediately rushed into the crowd like a cat with fur, and was quickly surrounded by a bunch of reporters:
"Haha, Mr. Zou is really willing to tell any nonsense in order to clear Xunlei's charges. I want to ask you, is it fake that Xunlei stole 100 movies?"
"If I don't ask you, why don't you ask me instead?"
Zou Shenglong immediately fired back, saying that Youpeng Pule kept saying that more than 100 Xunlei films had been infringed, but in fact, except for two subpoenas, the others had not been received at all.
The corridor was filled with smoke.
Such a scene not only greatly exceeded the expectations of Zhang Chaoyang and other organizers, but also greatly exceeded the expectations of media reporters.
"Even if Xunlei has pirated copies, how can you guys be so innocent and not own any pirated copies?" Zou Shenglong continued to fire, "None of us are clean. You may have stolen more than us."
Zhang Chaoyang retorted: "We do have piracy, but Sougu has done an investigation and found that the video copyright infringement by Xunlei is 10 times that of Sohu and 5 times that of Youpeng Pule."
"Isn't this just a joke at fifty steps and a hundred steps at a time!"
Zou Shenglong said: "Don't forget that the biggest online video infringement case is not Xunlei, but Mr. Zhang's Sohu. Dozens of companies in Huayi and Hantang sued Sohu, but not me. Why is that? Woolen cloth?"
"Yes, Mr. Zhang, can you answer this?"
"Mr. Zhang, what do you think of the lawsuits launched by Huayi, Hantang and other film and television companies?"
"..."
As soon as these words came out, the media turned their backs one after another, focusing their cameras and microphones on Zhang Chaoyang and bombarding him indiscriminately.
"I will answer these questions one by one at future press conferences." Zhang Chaoyang was so excited that he did not dare to continue the war of words with Xunlei any longer, and turned around to withdraw to the venue.
"Why can't you answer now?"
Employee A of Xunlei yelled, "I don't want to answer, or I don't dare to answer."
"What did you say!"
Not to be outdone, the employees of Sohu and YouPengPule rushed to the front and faced off with the employees of Xunlei. They were like two dynamite barrels. A spark would set off a war.
"Look, everyone, it's urgent, it's urgent."
The employee said loudly: "If we weren't right, why would they be so anxious? They must be guilty of committing crimes."
"Everyone, be quiet. This is a public place."
The hotel had to dispatch security guards, but there were too many people and the smell of gunpowder was too strong. The persuasion had little effect. Just when the lobby manager was helpless, a burst of screams suddenly broke out:
"Hitting someone."
"People from the Anti-Piracy Alliance are beating people up!"
"Call the police, call the police quickly..."
When he heard "police", Zhang Chaoyang's mind went blank for a moment. Why did it inexplicably turn into a fight?
President Youpeng Pule said impatiently: "Mr. Zhang, there's something going on. Why is Xunlei so good at being right next door to us? There's something going on here. Someone must be causing trouble!"
"It's him, it's him, it must be him."
Zhang Chaoyang suddenly remembered Lu Fei's face.
………
The farce of the conflict between Xunlei and Sohu immediately alerted the Pengcheng police. Obviously, the press conference cannot be held today.
However, the media who came to take advantage of the excitement did not return disappointed. Instead, they raced back to their work units, fearing that others would publish first.
After a while, various news and comments appeared, such as "Thunder is not as good as "covering ears", Sohu "bites back"", "Thunlei Sohu's civil and military struggle", "Sohu Xunlei strangles behind each other: accusing each other of infringements with vague excuses" Appeared like snowflakes on major portals.
Penguin, Sogou, NetEase, Baidu, New Wolf and other platforms published an article called "Thunder 10 Questions on Sohu's "False Alliance" Why Are They So Sophisticated?" 》, both the reading volume and the number of comments are unprecedentedly high, and the comment area is filled with the anger of netizens:
[Without Sohu Anti-Piracy, there would be so many idiots? 】
[It turns out that pirates are also searching for tigers, and if you are a bitch, you have to build an archway]
[Did Sohu invest a lot of money in copyright from the beginning? Not only did you earn money from piracy, but everyone just came out of the mud. You washed yourself, turned around and kicked others into the mud again. It looked so ugly! 】
[Even if Xunlei is banned and Tudou cannot watch it, I won’t even watch Sohu, and I will firmly boycott Sohu! 】
[Resolutely boycott Sohu +10086]
【……】
Internet users who were accustomed to free services completely hated Sohu and its anti-piracy alliance.
Without Sohu adding to the chaos, would there have been an anti-piracy incident?
Ever since, people have expressed their anger at Sohu. Whenever there is negative news about Sohu, the comment area will be beating gongs and drums as if it is a Chinese New Year. They have threatened to boycott Sohu, and they are not just talking about it.
In one day, Sohu lost 82,000 visits.
On the contrary, the number of registered users and daily active users of Xunlei, Tudou, and even Penguin Video have frequently reached new highs.
"Lu Fei, he must be the one who instigated Xunlei!"
Zhang Chaoyang looked at the horrific statistics table and tore it into pieces angrily, "No one is worse than him."
Gong Yu was worried, "Mr. Zhang, we are working hard on public relations and the results are good. After all, genuine is justice. We are justified and we are not afraid. But the top priority is that Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Mengniu, and Yinli must withdraw their advertising sponsorship."
"Why!" Zhang Chaoyang suddenly realized, "Is it because of the online boycott of Sohu?"
"There may be considerations in this regard, but I think this is the main reason."
Gong Yu handed over a lawyer's letter from Hantang Culture. In addition to suing Sohu for piracy, it also brought advertisers such as Coca-Cola with it, suspected of advertising on pirated videos and aiding the evildoers.
"It's Lu Fei again, it's Lu Fei again!"
Zhang Chaoyang crumpled the lawyer's letter into a ball of paper and threw it heavily on the ground, "Who the hell doesn't know that Gao Yuanyuan is his protégé?"
Gong Yu sighed, "Mr. Zhang, I asked the lawyer. This is a malicious lawsuit and it certainly cannot be filed. However, Coca-Cola insists on drawing a clear line with pirated videos no matter what. They feel that advertising on pirated websites will only damage their own brand. Image.”
"What about the penguin?" Zhang Chaoyang stared angrily.
"Penguin doesn't seem to be piracy."
"Really not?"
"Not really."
"How come there isn't? This is possible."
"Ah, why do you still have this?"
"We can let him have it!"
Zhang Chaoyang gives orders directly. In the past, he asked his employees to upload pirated videos to Sohu in the name of users. Now he does the opposite, uploading pirated videos to competitors such as Penguin and Tudou, and then preemptively prosecute them before deleting them.
"Mr. Zhang, is this too outrageous?"
Gong Yu frowned and said dissatisfied: "If it is discovered that we are setting up a frame-up, the impact will be too bad."
Zhang Chaoyang shrugged: "There are many websites that can do this. As long as you don't have to register an account with your own identity, it will be fine. Who can find it, and how can it be found?"
"This this……"
Gong Yu disdains such despicable business warfare tactics.
"Don't do this, that, just do as I say."
Zhang Chaoyang set KPIs, and every employee uploaded pirated copies to competitors such as Tudou, Penguin, and PPS, at least three times a day.
Once it is uploaded, people are no longer clean.
If you don’t upload it, your job may be ruined.
"I understand, Mr. Zhang."
Gong Yu walked out of the office, feeling nauseous but unable to object. He went to the smoking room to smoke a cigarette depressedly, and happened to bump into Wang Xiaochuan.
He looked harmless and said: "What's wrong, Mr. Gong, your face is so ugly?"
"Nothing, haha, nothing."
Gong Yu stared at Wang Xiaochuan thoughtfully, and until he left, he kept staring at his back, thoughtfully.
