Riding the wind of rebirth

With the advent of the Internet age, "digital music stations" quickly became unified digital forums. The forums had strict certification mechanisms, which eliminated the pirated "music stations" that were once able to fish in troubled waters. Music forums and digital alliance music rankings became the main battlefield for major record companies to compete for music fans.

In addition to record companies, countless independent music creators have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. This is not only due to the existence of forums, but also to the increasingly powerful multi-track non-linear music editing software.

It is said that black people have extraordinary talents in music and dance, but they do not like to study. However, they are very good at using computers and editing software. Dozens of digital music studios have appeared in New York City, professionally accepting music sent by creators.

After that, singles from countless freelance creators became popular on the forum, and some previously unknown singers achieved financial freedom directly because of a single with huge downloads.

There is more than one such myth, but it has formed an effect. Even the most stubborn conservative music fans who believe that lossless high-fidelity music is the way to go have to admit that the era of digital music has arrived.

While everyone is enthusiastically discussing these magical phenomena, these emerging geniuses, these myths of wealth, and this new era, some things have been overlooked.

For example, the Music Practitioners Association.

The previous semi-closed, independent, tree-like hierarchical music discourse pyramid was undoubtedly controlled by record companies and music practitioners' associations, but now it has been replaced by an open, universal, flat Digital Alliance Music Forum membership system.

The record companies made a lot of money from the alliance, so naturally they had no resistance. Who would have thought that a single that had been sitting in the warehouse for decades and no one cared about it could still sell well online under the name of "nostalgia"?

From that time on, the traditional discourse pyramid began to collapse, and the capital forces on Wall Street began to actively embrace new things and add fuel to the flames.

Black people have never received the status and compensation they deserve in this country. Even if the music was first created by black people, the ultimate beneficiaries are still the original people who control the world.

It would be naive to expect that they would let it go or fail to see that HIP-HOP is about to become a goose that lays golden eggs.

What he was most unwilling to accept was that he had already discovered the code to wealth and had been planning for it for a long time, but when he was about to reap the rewards, others smashed everything and took over the game in a different way.

And there is no place for him in that new game!

"SHIT!" Truney cursed again: "Don't worry about Denor and Sheldon for now. We must come up with some plans that can threaten the Digital Alliance."

"I've thought about several directions." Malmut took out a document from his briefcase. "First, the forum is a new thing. Whether it should be public welfare or profit-making is debatable. There are other forums of the Digital Alliance of the same type, such as the Film and Television Forum and the FLASH Forum, which all have the same problem."

"The second is the privacy protection of registered users." Malmut pointed to the information on the website and explained to Truney: "Although the forum is anonymous, that is for music fans. For users who upload music, because of IP authorization and profit sharing, they will inevitably need to provide forum administrators with their real names, addresses, contact information, bank account numbers and other private information."

"All this information is in the hands of the alliance, but how the alliance uses this information is not supervised. Is this a problem that our practitioners' association needs to intervene and be concerned about?"

"That's right!" Truney slapped his thigh, "You're really smart!" "The third is the issue of preventing digital works from being piracy. Digital works are easy to copy, especially among young people. Exchanging digital music in their MP3s has even become a social fashion. This practice has undoubtedly seriously damaged the interests of music practitioners. We have the responsibility to ask the alliance to give an explanation."

"Yeah, that makes a lot of sense." Truney's mood gradually began to improve.

"The fourth is unfair competition," Malmut said. "How can we prevent artists who have signed with management companies from uploading music as freelancers to seek profits and thereby seize the share that should go to record companies?"

"This part of the profit that should have gone to the record companies was quietly taken by the alliance in the form of music profit sharing. Is this reasonable?"

"The fifth is the fairness of the Alliance music rankings." Malmut said: "In theory, the rankings are determined by download volume, but we should not forget that there are many types of music. The rankings need to be formulated by a fair system, rather than arranging all music types uniformly. This will inevitably lead to a lot of good music giving way to vulgar but catchy songs, right?"

"There are many other problems, such as record companies engaging in vicious competition to get on the charts. To get on the charts, they need downloads, and to get downloads, they have to pay more to the alliance. In the end, the competition for the charts actually became a means for the alliance to infringe on the interests of record companies and practitioners in disguise."

"There is also the protection of record companies and artists. Forums are a place where anyone can express their opinions. As a result, many companies and artists will be maliciously slandered and attacked by their competitors. In the past, these slanders and attacks were only visible to the companies and artists themselves, but now they are visible to the public, and the adverse impact caused will be much greater than before."

"I have written down many of the remaining questions in this document. Tomorrow will be our first confrontation. President, which ones do you think we should use first?"

"Leave the document here. I'll study it first." Truni took out a thick envelope from the drawer and threw it to Malmut. "This is a reward for you. As long as you continue to work for me like you did today, I won't treat you unfairly."

"Thank you, President." Malmut was not modest, but just put the envelope away calmly: "As for Denor and Sheldon..."

"Don't worry about that." Truney waved his hand and said, "A few guys in the neighborhood have become famous on the forum, and they don't know how to show respect. Denor and Sheldon will go to the neighborhood to teach them how to learn it again."

Malmut suddenly felt the hairs on his back stand up. He didn't dare to say anything more. He bowed politely to Truney, then turned and left.

Just as Malmut walked to the door, Truni suddenly stopped him and said, "My child, I sponsored you to grow up, and I also provided the funds for you to study in law school. I have absolute trust in you, and you will have greater responsibilities in the future. Do you understand?"

Malmut turned around and bowed solemnly to Truni's fat body: "I will always be your loyal legal advisor, not only because of your kindness to me in the past, but also because it is the professional ethics I must abide by." (End of this chapter)