Riding the wind of rebirth

As for the problem of ineffective anti-piracy measures for digital works, Tony Huang listed a series of anti-piracy measures taken by the Alliance Forum.

It is a fact that digital works are easy to copy. It is also a fact that among teenagers, exchanging digital music in their MP3s has become a social trend. However, Tony Huang does not agree with the claim made by the Practitioners Association that this move harms the interests of music practitioners, or at least it is worth discussing.

First of all, the music in the alliance is completely genuine, and any downloading action is authorized and tested by the forum agreement.

Although data sources are strictly protected by copyright offices, there are too many digital conversion software tools today, leading to piracy.

But these are not mistakes in the distribution of data sources by the alliance forum, and as long as such behavior is not a general profit-making behavior, it can actually achieve some publicity effects.

The practice of exchanging music between teenagers did not start with the advent of digital music. Tape ripping is still a common practice today. However, as long as it is not large-scale or profit-making and is considered normal communication, no organization has ever raised any objection to it.

In short, it acknowledges the existence of piracy, but this existence has nothing to do with the forum, nor did it start to occur after the emergence of digital music. On the contrary, genuine digital music is much more difficult to copy than ordinary tapes without any protection because of the constraints of the agreement.

So strictly speaking, the forum has taken various measures to avoid piracy, and it is also a victim of piracy. It is unreasonable for the Practitioners Association to accuse the forum of this.

On the contrary, the Practitioners Association should have played due role in addressing the piracy problem that has always existed in the music industry. However, not only has it not played any role, it has also shirked responsibility for no reason, attempting to shift the blame to innocent victims and making groundless accusations against them, which is ridiculous.

As for the accusation of unfair competition in the forum rankings, Tony Huang scoffed at it. The download list, click list and reward list of the Alliance Music Forum Ranking are all public. Anyone who logs in can see the numbers behind the list, and after clicking on them, they can see which music fans have performed the operation.

The association's unwarranted accusations are actually bringing the idea of ​​opaque rankings of traditional radio and television stations into the forum. This also precisely shows that the association is inferior to the forum. The transparency of the two is completely incomparable. Now the backward ones are accusing the advanced ones, which is really unreasonable.

Malmut cited the phenomenon of record companies using trumpets to manipulate the charts, but Tony Huang countered that the examples Malmut cited all came from the forum's supervision and handling decisions on record companies, which means that these phenomena are inevitable in community-like places like forums, just as any society cannot avoid illegal behavior. The key is to hold people accountable and handle them properly.

The fact that Malmut could not cite any examples other than those that the Forum had already discovered and dealt with just shows that the Forum’s accountability for such unfair behavior is comprehensive and complete.

Similarly, Tony Huang used the traditional ranking competition as a negative example, pointing out that at least the forum currently has many regulatory measures, while the traditional radio and television station rankings, which have always been guided by the practitioners' association, have no transparency at all, which of course makes people have to question their fairness.

Similarly, the rumor that record companies had to pay benefits to the forum in order to get on the charts was naturally self-defeating.

However, Tony Huang easily accepted Malmut's attack on the forum rankings for not being segmented enough, saying that the current pop music rankings have played a huge role, so it would not be too difficult to segment the rankings of various types of music according to the same model, and the forum could immediately start to rectify this.

The controversy of the entire afternoon was focused on these points. Tony Huang continued to demonstrate his characteristic of using detailed data to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the management methods of the alliance and the association in great detail, and Lewis basically supported all of them. The slight advantage that Malmut had gained in the morning was completely ruined in this afternoon.

It is impossible to complete such a large mediation and deliberation within one day. Zhou Zhi even feels that being able to accomplish this on the first day is already a rare speed for a "country ruled by law".

After this afternoon, not only Zhou Zhi was optimistic, but even Louise and Freeman began to be optimistic about the dispute, thinking that the problem might not be serious.

When they returned to the hotel that night, Mai Xiaomiao was picked up by Ikeda Qiu and Zhang Silu, and Zhou Zhi also received a call from An Siyuan, asking him to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where there was a buffet before the opening of an Oriental themed exhibition.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is very close to the hotel and is also on the east side of Central Park on Fifth Avenue, so Zhou Zhi simply walked there.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a huge collection of ancient artworks from all over the world. As the largest art museum in North America, it is known as one of the "Four Major" along with the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

The museum houses more than three million art treasures from Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, the Far East and the Near East, Greece and Rome, Europe, Africa, pre-Columbian America and New Guinea. In terms of categories, they include architecture, sculptures, paintings, sketches, prints, photographs, glassware, ceramics, textiles, metal products, furniture, ancient houses, weapons, armor and musical instruments from historical periods.

Thanks to several patrons, the Metropolitan Museum of Art also has a large collection of Oriental art.

The first was Everly, a director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a famous New York antique dealer and collector. He transferred his collection of more than a thousand pieces of Chinese Ming and Qing porcelain to the museum. Most of these collections are Chinese export porcelains, and there are also a small number of Ming and Qing official kiln porcelains, including blue and white underglaze red, monochrome glaze and overglaze enamel.

Another director, Bi Shaopu, donated his collection of more than 1,000 Chinese jade artifacts, most of which are fine products from the Qing Dynasty.

New York collector Altman donated his collection of Chinese porcelain, enamelware, snuff bottles, etc. to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including nearly 200 snuff bottles alone.

After Morgan, the American banker who founded JPMorgan Chase, became chairman of the board of directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he became very interested in Chinese cultural relics and art. Under his leadership and advocacy, the Metropolitan Museum of Art established the Far East Department and specially invited Bosleitz, a Dutch scholar who studied Chinese culture from Europe, to serve as the director of the Far East Department.

Under the guidance of Bosleitz, the Metropolitan Museum of Art no longer relied solely on random donations from collectors, but began to purposefully seek and acquire Chinese art and cultural relics. It also hired Canadian missionary John Ferguson as an advisor on the collection of Chinese cultural relics, who was also equivalent to the museum's acquisition agent in China.

During his tenure, Bosch acquired a large number of Buddhist art treasures from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Liao Dynasty, mainly various Buddhist statues. Fu Kaisen helped acquire many bronze artifacts, including the famous "Four Artifacts of the Marquis of Qi" and the bronze ban, one of the "Thirteen Artifacts of the Ban" formerly collected by Duan Fang, as well as a large number of Chinese calligraphy and paintings and Han Dynasty pottery. (End of this chapter)