The opening of China Entertainment Group gave Jay Chou a head-on confrontation

Chapter 745: He listened to all the Westerners chanting
What the hell!

Bold!

Almost at the same time, industry insiders who saw Zhou Yi's interview promoting the first single felt their scalps tingling instantly -

No buddy, are you really going to do it?
At this moment, whether it was Sony Universal or EMI, whether it was people who disliked him or hated him, they all gave him a thumbs up in their hearts after watching the film.

Piracy has been a problem that has plagued the Chinese music scene since the 1970s and 1980s. After entering the new century, this problem has been infinitely magnified by the rapid development of the Internet.

The birth of digital music has made piracy extremely convenient. With an MP3 player (or USB flash drive, memory card), a computer, and a dial-up connection at home, you can access music from all over the world. In China, Baidu MP3 is undoubtedly the most popular piracy method.

If the physical pirates in the past could still make record companies endure it, then the Pandora's box opened by Baidu MP3 is truly out of control.

But even so, no one can do anything to Baidu - no matter how dissatisfied Sony EMI is, it is currently only at the lawyer's letter stage.

Warner is currently the only record company that has filed a lawsuit against Baidu, and Zhou Yi is the only singer so far who has criticized Baidu MP3, the leader in Internet music piracy.

I didn't say it in private, I said it in front of the host and the camera in a pre-release interview for the single, knowing that it would attract a lot of attention. Other singers would only ask fans to boycott pirated copies and support genuine products.

"The King of France is invincible! I surrender!"

"He's really fucking tough. My brother is a musician and has suffered a lot from Baidu MP3. I didn't expect Zhou Yi to dare to challenge Baidu."

"What are you bragging about? Wasn't Zhou Yi named the number one in Chinese music? The emperor? Isn't this what he should do as the number one?"

"That's right, this is what the king of France should do as the number one person in the domestic pop music industry, and he even praised it."

"…Why do I feel like Zhou Yi is pissed off by Baidu? Didn't you notice that several reporters and editors from Southern Weekend and Southern Metropolis Daily went to Baidu News to write articles? The click-through rates are quite high."

Free Beaver 16: "The King of France must have been so angry that he frantically deleted posts and banned accounts on Sina, Sohu, NetEase, Tencent and other platforms. As a result, Baidu became the last place for free speech. He was out of reach and attacked Baidu directly."

"Beaver is right. I was wondering why many of the news articles I read often praise the King of France."

"What the hell, it's a live beaver! How come it's level 16 after not seeing it for two or three months?"

It was another day when a Tianya account discovered the truth invisibly, but unfortunately the story went astray after the Zhouyi Legend's durable black fan "Free Beaver 16" appeared.

Zhou Yi’s cell phone was also blown up.

This time, not only Jay Chou, Wang Feng, Hu Yanbing, Zhang Shaohan and others, but even Sun Nan and Naying, who had only met a few times, showed up and called to politely inquire about what was going on.

For this group of people in the Chinese music scene, Baidu is an insurmountable mountain.

But now, Zhou Yi, who has become the number one in the Chinese music scene, has taken action on this mountain.

"What do I think? Is this even necessary?"

Sun Yanzi, who participated in Sprite's "Youth Without Limits" event, was asked about related matters. She did not show any solemnity in private, and she looked very energetic and lively: "Everyone knows that I will always support him unconditionally."

His happy expression when he said this, with his mouth almost stretched to the back of his head, made the reporters present feel inexplicably that they might be redundant.

"Then Yanzi, what do you think about the news that Zhou Yi is suspected of interfering with freedom of speech?"

"I find it very confusing, especially when people use the United States as an example. I wonder if the United States I went to is a fake one?"

"But abroad——"

Sun Yanzi, who looked innocent, restrained her happiness, smiled without showing her teeth, and looked very ladylike. She asked politely: "Ms. Reporter, do you know more about foreign countries than I do?"

The little white rabbit from Singapore rarely shows its fangs, which is very aggressive.

Jay Chou: "I support all of Ayi's decisions. He is a very good person."

Tao Zhe: "No one understands discrimination and so-called freedom of speech in the United States better than me. When I was studying in the United States, I even got into a fight with someone because of this. Zhou Yi is right."

Wang Lihong: "I want to say that in the United States, there are indeed many taboos that cannot be discussed."

Zhang Shaohan: "I have seen people in Canada being arrested for making false statements." "..."

When asked about the Baidu mp3 incident, the singers who were forced by the company not to make random comments could only support Zhou Yi from the initial starting point of this public opinion, "freedom of speech".

Fan Xiaopang, Xiao Yaxuan and others, as well as several singers within Warner, were also sent text messages by Zhou Yi himself not to get involved, and that he could handle the Baidu MP3 matter himself.

He led the charge, and even if he failed he still had a way to retreat, which the others did not have.

Li Yanhong, who had never expected that his company would be publicly criticized by Zhou Yi, could no longer sit still and publicly published an article to refute Zhou Yi's "insect theory" -

"In fact, I was very sorry when I heard the news. I personally like Zhou Yi's songs very much, but I don't think Baidu MP3 is destroying the Chinese music market.

"In fact, Baidu does not provide real download services to Internet users, but only provides comprehensive and targeted search results for Internet users to query and use. Baidu does not know whether the content it searches for is infringing.

“Times are changing, and the progress of the Internet is changing with each passing day. The emergence and development of search engines is inevitable under the current development of the Internet.

"At present, there are no clear regulations and restrictions on the business model and function settings of search engines. Under the premise that search service providers cannot control and foresee the search results, it is legally unreasonable for search service providers who have no judgment ability to bear infringement liability..."

This article, titled "Baidu has never destroyed the music market environment," was published consecutively on the pages of the three major newspapers, Southern Weekend, Southern Daily, and Southern Metropolis Daily, and was also artificially pinned to the top of the Baidu news section.

Cheng Yizhong and Zhang Ping were so happy to finally see that Zhou Yi could not be blocked on the Internet. They decisively continued to write news about Zhou Yi in order to discredit him in the style of the Spring and Autumn Annals.

"In Western countries, even in Poland, a star would not have the ability to confuse right and wrong like this. In the United States, even if Michael Jackson is the most famous person in the world, the American media still bravely exposed the scandal about him.

"I understand that Zhou Yi is unwilling to accept negative news about himself appearing on the Internet, but there is no such thing as a born saint in this world. He is just hiding his true self deeply.

"If you are too young and successful, you will easily fail. What Zhou Yi needs to learn is the advanced ideas of the Western world. He should listen more, watch more, and absorb more. Only in this way can he go further on the road of music in the future..."

A long and eloquent article was published after Li Yanhong's article.

Not only is Zhouyi already at a disadvantage offline, but online, after the personal response from Baidu's president, the discussion brought about by the Chongzhi theory and the content written by Cheng Yizhong and Zhang Ping complemented each other, and for a time, the discussion of "Should Zhouyi be more restrained" was sparked.

"To be honest, I originally supported Zhou Yi, but he really seemed to have blocked people, which really violated freedom of speech."

"Don't let the Western ideology get into your head. Just take what they say, right? If they say your parents are traitors, do you agree?"

"Is this the quality of Zhou Yi's fans?"

"That's right. Freedom and equality are what we pursue. Why can't we say it?"

"Li Yanhong shouldn't wrongly accuse Zhou Yi, since he is the president of Baidu."

"Hard to say."

"..."

The unprecedented level of discussion also led to great attention being paid to the single "General's Order", which Zhou Yi had previously mentioned would be released on November 11 as a ringtone.

After all, this was the first time Zhou Yi encountered a fightback from a big shot in the Internet field.

In comparison, the humility revealed between the lines of Li Yanhong's works is obviously more imaginative.

Zheng Yuhao didn’t know much about Baidu and Warner, but when he chose to play the song “General’s Order” as soon as the single was released on November 11, the lyrics almost fried his brain CPU.

"............

"I'm a soldier, I'm tense

"Fight hard on the battlefield, listen to who is giving orders

"The general was tipsy and he couldn't tell the direction.

"He listens to all the sutras recited by Westerners~"

(End of this chapter)