After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 311: Being the best in the world is not that easy

Although people thought that Kuaibo died because of its involvement in pornography, including the charge the court convicted Wang Xin of was also for disseminating pornographic materials for profit.

But at whose hands did KuaiBo die?

When other video websites were suffering from bandwidth and copyright issues, QVOD used peer-to-peer technology and skirted the line of piracy to attract a large number of users.

Founded in 07, by the end of 2011, Qvod's number of active users had surpassed all other video websites with legitimate copyrights.

The legalization of video giants has brought two impacts. First, copyrights have become more and more expensive. Due to the competition among various parties, the cheap price has become the cheap price. On the other hand, after the entry of the giants, they have also been trying their best to protect their copyright rights, and the market has begun to become standardized.

Piracy was difficult to combat in the past because of the difficulty in supervision. However, when the big guys spent high prices to purchase copyrights, they naturally became the regulators of the market. If they encountered infringement, they would report it immediately. They would not allow others to sleep on their bed.

QVOD got its start by relying on piracy, and it developed piracy to the point where all major video sites were terrified.

There are tens of thousands of websites in China that rely solely on Qvod to produce pirated film and television content, and nearly 10 of them have annual revenues exceeding million yuan.

This is only the case for pirated movie websites, but it is impossible to count the number of pornographic websites that are more covert and have greater money-making power.

It is at least twice as much as ordinary pirated video business.

It’s not like the video giants haven’t already taken aim at QVOD.

Just the aftermath and aftershocks were enough to scare other well-known pirated websites and put them into custody.

For example, Youku once sued Station A for having a large amount of pirated content, which resulted in three administrators of Station A being detained for a whole month in their personal capacity.

Sensing a bad premonition, VeryCD completely removed its resource search service in 2011.

Xunlei was even more straightforward. It sold its once proud resource search tool, Dog Search, for less than 10,000 yuan and never made any more mistakes again.

Only Kuaibo is running wildly and happily. Under the reports of Baidu, Penguin, Youku, LeTV and other video websites, it is happily making a lot of money.

In 12, it had 3 million users!
There's something behind Qvod, it's pretty fierce...

In the end, several bigwigs were forced to step in personally and report the incident.

Brother Ma even used Nanshan Pizza Hut.

Then Wang Xin followed Lao Zhou's example and escaped decisively.

But Penguin and LeTV, who were the craziest in spending money to buy copyrights, were not willing to let him go.

Wang Xincheng absconded.

The next day, he was put on the red warrant.

He was arrested 110 days after fleeing abroad.

During the trial, the authorities broadcast it live online to serve as a warning to others.

He was prosecuted in 13 and tried in 16.

After three years of trouble, he was finally sentenced to three years and six months...

Maybe Wang Xin himself didn't expect that he would be hated so much.

Although Boss Wang has a miserable future, he is undoubtedly the person who lives the most comfortable life now. Video giants such as Youku, iQiyi, Sohu, LeTV... are all worried about revenue, but Kuaibo is having a great time.

Li Mingyang used a small account to contact the business manager of Kuaibo. Although the two had never met before, they were very familiar with each other.

Because live streaming still relies on various pirated websites to attract traffic, and pirated websites rely on in-site advertisements and forced pop-up advertisements for their livelihood.

After getting the cooperation.

Li Mingyang glanced at the time. It was a little after four in the afternoon.

After thinking for a while, Li Mingyang sent a message to Wu Zhikui, Ye Xiangdong and others, asking them to come to his office.

Although he can now publish directly on Bilibili.

But this is the success of their labor after all.

For a filmmaker, the journey of a filmmaker would be incomplete without experiencing the excitement of releasing a movie online.

Half an hour later, everyone was present, and Li Mingyang shared with everyone his idea of ​​testing One Punch Man on Bilibili.

Everyone seemed to think that it was really just a test and did not realize that One Punch Man could only be launched on its own website.

On November 11th, at 15 o'clock, One Punch Man will be first released on Bilibili!
Apart from Bilibili’s internal promotion, there is no external promotion.

More than half an hour has passed, and the two-dimensional gathering place doesn’t like the real-life version of the bald man very much. There are average clicks and no comments.

Two hours later, dozens of major pirated websites that had cooperated with Qvod simultaneously launched One Punch Man.

The One Punch Man on the pirated website will directly jump to the One Punch Man playback window on Bilibili.

With every jump, One Punch Man on Bilibili gains one click.

This set of operations lasted for a week, and QVOD asked him for 500,000 yuan.

Over the next two days, Wang Changtian urged him to promote your name as if it were a routine matter.

Li Mingyang turned a deaf ear to it and did not even go home, concentrating entirely on One Punch Man.

Kuaibo’s promotion was terrible. In two days, One Punch Man only received over two million hits.

There is actually not much traffic within Bilibili, it all relies on pirated complete jumps.

There aren’t many comments, and they all praise the special effects.

Li Mingyang was worried. Other people didn't know about Kuaibo and thought it was very effective. The traffic on Bilibili was not high to begin with.

In two days, it received over two million hits, and everyone was very satisfied.

As time goes on, people with sharp minds will start to wonder why it hasn't been launched on Youku yet.

Rumors will surely spread by then.

To be honest, if mainstream platforms don’t allow it to be put on the platform, it will really dampen everyone’s enthusiasm.

Li Mingyang was thinking about how to delay this when there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Wu Zhikui pushed the door and walked into the office, holding a stack of documents.

Then he handed the thin document on top to Li Mingyang.

Li Mingyang took the document, looked at it for a while, raised his head and said with a smile: "Old Wu, you have quite a talent for management."

Wu Zhikui sorted the company's various financial statements, approvals, business contracts, and plans for the past month into categories, compiled them into a book, and made a simple and clear PPT.

"There happened to be a few people who knew how to make a PPT, so I asked them to do it. It looked OK and could save you a lot of time."

Li Mingyang nodded, but still took out the document and reviewed it again himself.

Internet companies are particularly fond of PPT. When he was at Penguin Video, he was scared of PPT.

Penguin Video’s PPT likes to change data and use some exclamatory statements to embellish the content.

Not change?

If we report the truth, everyone will be embarrassed. We have suffered a huge loss...

"I seem to have done something unnecessary." Wu Zhikui said with a wry smile.

“I still prefer to see real data.”

"Well, I'll make a big catalog for you in the form of a movie plan later."

"It's actually not that troublesome."

"Your time is more valuable than ours."

Li Mingyang put down the documents and felt that Wu Zhikui had something to say. He stood up and walked to the wine cabinet and took out two bottles of beer from the cabinet.

Unscrew the bottle cap directly by hand.

Then he invited Wu Zhikui to sit in the rest area.

After taking two sips of beer, Li Mingyang said, "One Punch Man is not available on Youku, Tudou, iQiyi and other mainstream video websites. It can only be broadcast on Bilibili."

"I guessed it." Wu Zhikui said calmly, "If it could be released online, you would have already broadcast it on Youku. Bilibili is just a pirated ACG website. It is not on the same track as mainstream video websites, and its audience base is also different. The test is just a consolation."

"It can't be said to be consolation." Li Mingyang really wanted to make One Punch Man a success.

"Actually... a lot of people have guessed it, but they just haven't said it. Everyone seems very excited, but it's just for you to see."

Wu Zhikui took a sip of wine and said, "We have done so much, it is not important whether the audience recognizes it or not, what is important is whether you recognize it or not. You are a genius, and people like us can never catch up with you even if we work harder."

"You only spent two days to make the movie that we worked on for more than a month look brand new. We all thought we had edited it perfectly. The one hour and thirty-five minute video was the result of a week of analysis and manipulation, and you were still able to cut out twenty-five minutes and re-compose the soundtrack..."

"Including this One Punch Man web movie at the end of the year, the One Punch Man IP cost at least 70 million, all of which were losses. It has never made any money."

"We were actually brought to a level that doesn't belong to us by you. The more we want to prove ourselves, the worse we do. We have the will but not the strength. To put it bluntly, we just don't have the ability..."

"I didn't agree with Zhang Zhao's system from the beginning. It was too restrictive and there was no room for maneuver. Everything was based on market experience, and many of us didn't even know what market experience was."

“Instead of being constrained, it is better to start over and do what you want to do and what you can do. Then the One Punch Man you see was made. The original intention of this movie project was just two special effects.”

"After following you for so long, I feel that it is the special effects that limit your performance. If we can solve the special effects problem, then everything will no longer be a problem for you."

Although Li Mingyang had known Wu Zhikui for so long, this was the first time he heard Wu Zhikui speak at such length.

He has given up on directing.

Just like Zhang Zhao, he gave up being a director and transformed himself into capital.

However, Wu Zhikui does not have the ability to manage capital, but with the talent and framework that Mingyang Entertainment already has...he wants to be a producer.

“You want to be a producer?”

"Well, I feel like being a producer is a good fit for me. I don't need to rack my brains to figure out how to structure a movie. All I need is a good script, and I can let professionals do their professional work to get it done."

"One Punch Man Online Movie is the easiest and happiest project I have ever done."

Li Mingyang didn't say much and patted Wu Zhikui on the shoulder.

If Lao Wu concentrates on being a producer, it will undoubtedly be most beneficial to the development of Mingyang Entertainment.

It can lighten his burden a lot.

But in the long run, Li Mingyang hopes that Lao Wu can become a great director.

In the future, Internet capital will fully enter the domestic entertainment industry... In just two years, the entertainment industry will not lack excellent producers, but great directors...

"You guys are pretending to be really good. I was just wondering what to say to you guys."

Wu Zhikui smiled, raised his head and drank the beer, then put the bottle on the coffee table. "I heard from Mr. Wang that you don't want to compete for the championship this year?"

"It's not that I don't want to, but the interests involved are too complicated..."

"Are you not confident about your name?"

If someone asked him this, Li Mingyang would definitely not tell the truth.

Li Mingyang was too lazy to pretend to be like Old Wu. "If you have confidence, 300 million is no problem. If you want more, it will be difficult."

“Ticket subsidies can’t solve the problem either.”

"With the ticket subsidy, it's only 300 million. Without the ticket subsidy, haha, over 100 million is good enough."

"So low? Don't you think too little of yourself? I think your name is very nice!"

"There are many good movies with bad box office and bad movies with good box office. In the end, the movie market is still a competition of capital and resources, and the market has the final say. The movie hasn't been released yet, and you can see how they are doing. I'm only 21 years old. I won the annual championship over Jiang Wen, Feng Kuzi, and Chen Shishi. What does it mean?"

"I don't have a chance to be the best director in the country. Every time my movie is released, I will be attacked. It's not easy to be the best director in the world..."

Wu Zhikui nodded, not believing a word of it.

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(End of this chapter)