Chinese Entertainment: Starting from 1996

Chapter 495: Alliance and Action

Everyone present here dislikes Qvod.

As the copyright war among major video websites becomes more and more intense and more and more money is invested, everyone has long been dissatisfied with Kuaibo, which can grab film and television video resources effortlessly.

Everyone has actually thought about sending a lawyer's letter to Qvod, but for various reasons they have not done so yet.

Now that the richest man Liu Zhou is taking the lead, and it seems that he wants to ban QVOD directly, this couldn't be better.

"Mr. Liu, tell me what you think and what you plan to do," Jia Yueting asked.

Jia Yueting was the most active in this matter. In fact, he had wanted to do this for a long time.

Just like in the original time and space, he also knew in advance through his connections that the country would implement copyright protection, so he also secretly purchased the online copyrights of previous movies and TV series in advance.

But I didn’t expect that Sina Video had already been doing this for a long time and had purchased a lot of film and television copyrights.

This couldn't help but surprise him.

I thought I could take action in advance, but I found that I still underestimated the world. Liu Zhou was able to become the richest man because his source of information was no worse than mine.

There is no way. Although the bulk of the money was bought by Sina Video, Jia Yueting had to continue to take what Sina Video had left over. Even if it was the leftovers, he still had to compete with others.

However, because it started early, LeTV Video also purchased some copyrights.

The online copyrights of old movies and TV series in China and Hong Kong have almost all been divided up by Sina and LeTV.

At that time, due to the competition between the two companies, the price of subsequent purchases increased a bit, and it also attracted the attention of several other video websites.

However, everyone was engaging in piracy at the time, and no one paid much attention to it. Besides, instead of spending money on purchasing copyrights, it would be better to spend money on increasing the number of users.

At that time, there were hundreds of video websites competing, and the battle was fierce, so some video websites even felt that the money spent by Sina and LeTV was a bit unnecessary.

But as the country began to implement copyright protection the year before last, everyone suddenly realized that Sina and LeTV, the two old sixth, had already known about this news and were making arrangements in advance.

But there is no way to regret it. If they don't want to be sued by Sina and LeTV, they can only purchase the copyrights from the two video websites.

Moreover, the copyright they purchased this time is not permanent, but only temporary, and is charged on an annual basis.

But in order to avoid losing users, they had to grit their teeth and pay the money, and most of the money went into Sina Video's pocket.

As a result, everyone has started competing for the latest movies and TV series, and spending more and more money.

Now that everyone has invested real money, they must be getting more and more annoyed with QVOD, which is stealing users without paying any money, and they wish it would die.

The ones who hate Qvod the most are definitely Sina and LeTV, because Qvod not only makes them feel uncomfortable, but also greatly affects their ability to make money.

This time, Sina called on everyone to encircle and suppress QVOD. Although everyone knew that Sina had the greatest interests in this, everyone was willing to participate and cooperate.

"We should unite all video websites in the industry, put pressure on the Copyright Bureau and Optoelectronics Bureau, and at the same time contact various film and television production companies and major studios to sue Qvod for spreading piracy." Liu Zhou expressed his thoughts.

This time the purpose is not to let Kuaibo pay a fine, but to completely eliminate Kuaibo.

Therefore, in order to create as much momentum as possible, it is of course necessary to bring in film and television companies and state-owned film studios. Besides, this is also a matter of interest to them.

At this time, Jia Yueting continued:

"Everyone, Qvod is not just a distribution channel for pirated content. It is now the main distribution channel for Silver Gray Blue. If we seize this opportunity, the other party will surely die!"

Hearing Jia Yueting's words, Liu Zhou couldn't help but frown slightly. It seemed that he had been eyeing QVOD for a long time.

However, this time Liu Zhou did not want to send Wang Xin to prison, he just wanted to ban QVOD.

Therefore, Liu Zhou had no intention of making a fuss about the silver-gray green. In fact, the following Xunlei, Baidu Video, 115, etc. were similar. The seed resources could not be banned on the Internet at all.

Without Qvod, some other applications will take over.

Moreover, if he only targets piracy without involving Silver-Gray Blue, it will save him from being scolded or even hated by the majority of netizens.

In the original time and space, Jia Yueting was determined to destroy Kuaibo without any regard for anything else and was determined to kill it, which also led to him being hated by the majority of netizens.

Even Lays, which has the same name as LeTV, was affected. Netizens went crazy and started to curse Lays as well, causing Lays to suffer bad luck.

Moreover, LeTV Post Bar was exposed, and countless people posted benefits in the Post Bar, and then reported LeTV Post Bar for spreading silver-gray green.
"Mr. Jia, given the current scale of Qvod, if Wang Xin is prosecuted in this way, he could be sentenced to five or even ten years in prison. Do you want to send Wang Xin to prison yourself?"

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Jia Yueting hesitated a little, or maybe he actually knew about this situation but didn't care at all, but now that Liu Zhou pointed it out in public he pretended to be hesitant.

It’s not like before. In the 1980s and 1990s, there were several business tycoons who had never been there. If you didn’t stay there for two years, you weren’t considered cool.

In today's fast-paced development era, if Wang Xin was sentenced to 10 years in prison, it would almost cost him his life. Losing 10 years would basically mean he would be completely out of touch with society.

After hearing what Liu Zhou said, everyone roughly understood what he meant. It was obvious that he didn't want to torture Wang Xin to death.

For them, they don’t care much about what Wang Xin is like, as long as they can get rid of KuaiBo.

If the companies present here unite, not to mention that Kuaibo doesn't have any big bosses supporting it, it would most likely not survive even if it faced the siege from these people.

When everyone was preparing to unite, the death sentence of KuaiBo had actually been announced.

As for letting Wang Xin go, it was not a bad idea for them. It could also be considered as giving face to Liu Zhou.

After nearly an hour of discussion, everyone temporarily set the tone for cooperation, and even Liujianfang, which had switched from video websites to live broadcasts, decided to participate.

Liujianfang can be said to be the first Internet company in China to engage in live streaming, but it became unknown because it failed later.

However, since Liujianfang has few competitors in the new field of live streaming, they are doing quite well now.

When 700 planes appeared in one second, even Liu Yan, the founder of Liujianfang, was shocked.

Just find a picture of an airplane on the Internet, make it without spending a penny, and sell it for 100 yuan.

Zero cost and zero risk, tens of thousands of yuan can be earned in just a few seconds. This speed of making money is the same as the time when they burned money to build the video website. This makes them feel like they have discovered a new world.

After nearly an hour of discussion, it was decided that Youku would take the lead in the video website side. Although Sina, Youku and Tudou are nominally the strongest echelon of video websites, Youku had just gone public not long ago and was the most popular at this time.

So under Liu Zhou's flattery, Gu Yongjiang agreed to take the lead in this matter with a laugh. Then Liu Zhou was responsible for contacting film and television companies and major production studios. His influence in the film and television industry was much greater than that in the Internet industry.

The final lawsuit will be held in Pengcheng, which requires support from the Penguin Group.

Kuaibo and Penguin are both in Shenzhen. With the help of Penguin Group, the lawsuit will be much easier to win. Now many people have called it Nanshan Pizza Hut.

After the basic plan was finalized, everyone left one after another, but Xiao Ma Ge stayed.

There were only two of them left in the meeting room, and they were much less restrained towards each other. Xiao Ma Ge crossed his legs and lit a cigarette leisurely.

"Old Liu, why are you suddenly so concerned about this matter?"

"What other reason could there be? It's because Qvod has seriously damaged the interests of Sina Video.

Your Penguin Video was officially launched last month. Didn’t you say that you would invest 500 million yuan this year to purchase the online copyrights of film and television dramas?

You can think about it, you invested 500 million to buy the copyright of the film and television drama, and others did nothing but put these films and TV dramas on Qvod, and they have more users than you, would you think of shutting down Qvod?

Moreover, you should also know that we have a lot of copyrights in Sina Video, which has a much greater impact on us.”

The original Time and Space Penguin Video was launched in April this year. Now, due to the influence of Liu Zhou, the launch time has been advanced by five months, and the scale of investment is also much larger.

"I understand that, but since you are the one taking the lead in this matter, why did you leave the matter of contacting the video website to General Gu Yong? I always feel that you have bad intentions."

"Pony, you think too bad of me. I gave him the limelight, how could he have bad intentions?" Liu Zhou replied with a smile.

When Xiao Ma Ge saw his expression, he felt that Liu Zhou was definitely not so kind, but he couldn't figure out what the trick was.

"Well, don't think about it. When we officially file a lawsuit, we will really need your help."

"No problem. Since we at Penguin are planning to enter the video industry, we should also contribute to the industry."

"Let's go to my house for dinner. I've asked Zeng Li to prepare it."

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In the following two days, Liu Zhou continued to contact major domestic film and television companies and state-owned film studios.

The film and television industry is Liu Zhou's base, so it may be a bit of an exaggeration to say that he has a hundred responses to his call. However, the film and television companies and production studios in the circle are still very happy to participate in Liu Zhou's proposal.

Even Hua Yi, who had some conflicts with Liu Zhou, agreed to actively participate.

After all, the formalization of online copyright is of great benefit to them. Not to mention the huge profits in the future, even if the copyrights of the mountains of films in the film library are added together, they can be sold for a lot of money.

Although Sina Video and LeTV have purchased a large number of film and television drama copyrights, they did not buy all the films or TV series. Most of them were movies and TV series that have been shown in theaters or broadcast on TV stations.

Those film and television companies and studios also have many other films.

Liu Zhou also called together the owners of several major film and television companies and heads of state-owned film studios to discuss the matter.

After explaining the situation to them, everyone had no problem, especially after knowing that nearly ten of the major domestic video websites would take action together.

This time Liu Zhou didn't even need to say anything. Yu Dong, who had just returned from North America and walked with a breeze, took the initiative to take over the responsibility of taking the lead.

Although Bona’s IPO was not very successful, it at least raised nearly 100 million US dollars in funds.

He also knew that it would not be so easy for Bona to raise funds in the stock market in the future, so if he wanted to increase Bona's stock price, he could only make good use of the less than 100 million US dollars of funds to achieve some results.

However, if Bona wants to increase its share price on Nasdaq, it will be much more difficult than for domestic listed companies such as Golden Harvest, Huayi and Guangguang.

However, since we have chosen to list on NASDAQ, we have to grit our teeth and overcome this result no matter how difficult it is.

In addition to leading Bona to achieve good results, Yu Dong also has another way of enhancing Bona's influence in the industry, which will also make it easier to tell stories to shareholders.

Now taking the lead in seeking benefits for the entire industry is undoubtedly a very good opportunity to show off. If successful, it will be a very good opportunity for both myself and Bona to enhance their influence.

With the entire film and television industry and many Internet companies joining forces, Yu Dong could not imagine the possibility of failure.

He was originally worried that Liu Zhou would compete with him for the leading position, but he didn't expect that he would not compete with him at all and gave it to him very generously.

Since Yu Dong wanted to be the first to take action, Liu Zhou had to help him.

Perhaps no one would have thought that KuaiBo is actually a hornet's nest, and whoever takes the lead will be targeted by the majority of male compatriots.

The anger of the masses is very scary. Liu Zhou would not be stupid enough to step in himself to do something that would anger the masses.

Since Yu Dong and Gu Yongjiang are responsible for the task, let them bear the wrath of the masses.

Afterwards, Yu Dong also actively contacted some other colleagues and production studios in the industry, and also contacted Gu Yongjiang of Youku to share information.

Since so many companies are involved in this matter, it is impossible to keep it completely confidential.

So not long after, a rumor suddenly spread on the Internet:
Qvod is going to be messed up!
Although this is just a rumor and not confirmed news, it still stimulated many netizens.

For them, there can be no other applications on the computer, even no QQ, but they cannot be without Qvod.

Even though no one knew who was behind the Qvod, people were already cursing about it online.

Although this kind of abuse has not yet formed a storm, there are already signs of it.

When the incident unfolds, although Bona and Youku will bear the most anger from netizens, Jiahe and Sina are both participants and will definitely also be attacked by netizens.

Therefore, in order to reduce the impact on the two companies, Liu Zhou arranged in advance for the public relations departments of Golden Harvest and Sina to guide public opinion and divert the public's anger towards Youku and Bona as much as possible.

Now is not the time to be Duke Xiang of Song. Although we have reached a cooperation against Kuaibo, we are still competitors.

Even if they were in their position, they would attack Golden Harvest and Sina without mercy.

Therefore, Liu Zhou had no psychological barriers to taking advantage of Youku and Bona.

(End of this chapter)