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Chapter 1044 Fishing in troubled waters
Yang Zhiyuan's words silenced all Yahoo executives.

Rules are called rules if someone follows them. They are binding. But if no one follows them, they are just a piece of waste paper!
The current situation of the American Internet market, including Silicon Valley, is that there are no rules, or in other words, there are no clear legal regulations.

The Internet is developing at such a fast pace that new Internet products appear almost every day. The speed at which laws are formulated cannot keep up with the changes in the Internet industry.

This is true in Silicon Valley, not to mention the rest of the Internet around the world.

There are rumors that America may introduce a digital copyright bill this year regarding its Internet copyright bill.

This set of bills was jointly promoted by America's Hollywood film and television industry, the recording industry, and technology giants such as Microsoft and IBM.

At present, the purpose is to curb the increasingly rampant pirated film and television discs, records, software, etc., that is, to prohibit the illegal cracking of genuine discs and software.

But in fact, this bill is just a vague bill, which means that a certain platform can put these movies, TV shows and software on its own platform without the permission of record companies, film and television companies, software companies, etc.

Once these copyright companies find out and ask the platform to delete it, the platform needs to delete it!
This creates a bug. If a radio station like Himalaya is shameless, it can put the records held by Warner Records and Columbia Records on its platform and let users listen to them for free.

When these record companies send a notice to Himalaya Radio, Himalaya Radio will delete these records from the shelves...

As for the "Music Modernity Act" targeting the record industry and the "Family Video Act" targeting the film and television industry, it will probably take many years before they appear in the Americas.

Kug's throat moved. He couldn't imagine what would happen if record copyright got out of control in the Internet industry.

Just as Tang Jun said, there are more than 150 million Internet users in the world. Using computers to listen to music will be a rigid demand for computer users in the future. This industry will definitely be a huge market!

With more than 100 million computer users demanding music, what kind of market is this?
Several major record giants are not sensitive to the Internet industry and may not have realized how big this market is.

But the Internet industry knows this very clearly. Even whether Himalaya Radio’s Internet online music business is successful or not is irrelevant!
As long as there is demand, there will be a market, and where there is a market there will naturally be adventurers. This is a foregone conclusion.

What will happen when Himalaya Radio cannot handle the music copyright and the five major record giants are determined to hold on to the music copyright?
There will definitely be Internet companies that don’t follow the rules and set their sights on this huge market. Just think about it, what does it mean to have an Internet music website that could potentially have tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of users?
There are certainly risks, but the benefits are equally huge. Once it is successful, it will become a giant company with a user scale that almost exceeds Netscape, Yahoo, and Himalaya Radio.

"Unfortunately, the risk is too great. Yahoo cannot take such a risk, otherwise..."

Yang Zhiyuan shook his head and said with a sigh that today's Yahoo has passed the stage of a makeshift team and is no longer in that grassroots period. Regardless of whether there are risks or not, as long as it can attract users, it will be done first.

Yahoo is now a wealthy company with a market value of 14 billion US dollars. It cannot afford to be involved in a lawsuit involving huge compensation due to music copyright issues. That would be a loss.

Yang Zhiyuan feels that the same is true for Himalaya Radio, which promotes genuine paid music in order to avoid copyright lawsuits.

“It’s a bit of a pity!”

Kuger's face was full of regret. He was really tempted. If he could ignore music copyright and launch online music functions, Yahoo's user scale and activity would probably double.

And Yahoo’s stock price and market value will probably double by then!
But the risk is indeed too great. It will destroy the entire record industry, and the entire model of the record industry may change.

From record giants to singers, to record manufacturers, distributors, record stores, etc., all will be affected. Some people's jobs, such as record distributors, may be completely replaced.

Cutting off someone's source of income is like killing their parents. The record industry, whose source of income has been cut off, will certainly not let it go. It will demand huge compensation, which will be a big trouble for Yahoo.

Yang Zhiyuan looked at the music function of Himalaya Radio in front of him. He didn’t know whether Himalaya Radio could win the victory of Internet music, but the flame of the Internet music industry had been ignited!
For the Internet industry, which already has a frenzy trend, countless Internet practitioners are desperately looking for new outlets.

Once you find the trend, it means you have gained the favor of venture capital companies. You may become a new Internet giant in a short period of time and then complete the listing. By then, you can get dollars, young models, villas, and luxury cars!
Ximalaya Internet Radio has launched online music function, not only the English version, but also Chinese, German, French, etc. In addition, Korean, Japanese, Cochin, Malaysian and other versions of Ximalaya Radio are also looking for local agents, and are ready to go online!
But for markets such as Korea, Siam, Cochin, Malaysia, Russia, and Eastern Europe, there is no need to worry too much about music copyright.

Looking around the world, the regions with strict record copyright management are mainly America, old Europe, Japan and other places. In other regions, record copyright management is now in a period of chaos.

In the domestic record music market, the sales of pirated tapes and CDs are several times that of the genuine ones, and there is no copyright management at all.

In places where record copyright management is chaotic, music copyrights are basically very cheap. It is already good enough if someone buys them. It is impossible to sell them at a sky-high price.

Therefore, copyright is not a problem for the online music function of Himalaya Radio, which is launched in China and the Southeast Asian market except Japan. This also means that the distribution of Feiyan MP3 in these regions will also be unimpeded!
However, America, old Europe, Japan and other places are the markets with the strongest consumption power, and Feiyan MP3 must be sold into these markets.

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"The domestic version of Himalaya Radio has been updated and launched with the online music function. The Himalaya Radio stations in Siam, Jiaozhi, Bangzi and other places will also be launched in the next few days. At the same time, we are also acquiring the music copyrights in these regions. It will not affect the distribution of Feiyan MP3 in these regions!"

At the Dongling Hi-Tech headquarters, Li Dongling was listening to the report from Fu Cheng, the co-leader of Feiyan Technology, in his office. Also standing beside him were Ren Yuefeng, Lu Wenhua from the Zhixing Foundation and others.

After hearing Fu Cheng's words, Li Dongling immediately asked, "What about the Japanese benzene market?"

Fu Cheng thought for a moment and said, "The Japanese benzene market is a little special. Himalaya Radio is planning to cooperate with Softbank and let Softbank be the agent of Himalaya Radio's Japanese benzene website!"

SoftBank is the largest software agent in Japan. Overseas software companies that want to enter the Japanese market have to rely on SoftBank.

Li Dongling nodded and told Fu Cheng, "Himalaya Radio must be launched in all major markets. Feiyan MP3 needs it to promote its products!"

After that, Mr. Li turned his gaze to Lv Wenhua and said, "Himalaya Radio must produce authentic music, no matter where in the world it is!
But in order to make the Internet music trend rise as soon as possible, so that more people can get in touch with Internet music and enjoy the convenience brought by Internet music, Zhixing Foundation needs to invest some funds in this industry, and venture capital in Silicon Valley, Japan, and other places, "lucky" online music websites will appear! "

Mr. Li's words were quite subtle, but Lu Wenhua knew what he meant.

That is, only some bold and daring online music websites can emerge with venture capital. These music websites need to develop as quickly as possible, and naturally they don’t care about some red tape. For example, if they can’t buy music copyrights, then... get on the bus first and buy the ticket later.

Put the music records in Warner Music and other companies on the website platform first, and attract users first. As for the copyright lawsuit with the record giants, we can wait until later...

Anyway, the Zhixing Foundation is not prepared to take back the money invested in those music websites. It will be enough as long as they can muddy the waters of record copyright!

Only when the water was muddy, the global record market was in chaos, Internet music copyright was out of control, and all kinds of music could be downloaded on the Internet. Only then did Dongling Hi-Tech launch Feiyan MP3, which allowed for unimpeded access.

Lu Wenhua nodded, and then said to Mr. Li, "I will go to America myself!"

The Zhixing Foundation is ready to completely ignite the fire of online music on the Internet, and then support the emergence of a model!
As long as there is a role model, there will be more daring people who follow suit and want to get rich overnight and enter this industry.

When the Internet music industry began to involute itself, in order to attract more users, the major music websites would probably fight each other and ignore the rules at all.

Regardless of whether or not they have obtained the record copyright authorization from the record giant, and regardless of how powerful this record giant is, there are probably a lot of music websites that put these songs on their websites for users to listen to, reprint, and download!
Li Dongling looked at Fu Cheng, Lv Wenhua and others, "Online music and Feiyan MP3, Dongling Hi-Tech must follow the rules and must not give others an advantage.

Dongling Hi-Tech just needs to let nature take its course!"

It is true that Dongling Hi-Tech ignited the fire of online music on the Internet, but there are some blames that Dongling Hi-Tech absolutely cannot take, otherwise it will cause endless troubles.

(End of this chapter)