Chicago 1990

"Laugh, laugh, laugh... Hollywood people always laugh so much."

After spending a few days in Hollywood, Song Ya still stayed at Daniel's house "every day" outside. He opened the curtains and watched the crowds of partying crowds on the lawn at night. There were all kinds of things in his ears. laughter.

Several third-rate actresses were chatting and chatting as if they were scheduled to burst out in exaggerated laughter. They were holding the bag in one hand, and definitely holding a glass of wine in the other. Some people had already bent over with laughter, but Never forget to hold the neckline of the evening dress elegantly with the hand of the bag.

Several unnamed male rock and roll singers were arguing with each other. One slammed the other's chest, and the other backed a few steps. The wine spilled out of the glass, and the two scolded each other and became foolish with the onlookers. fun.

Some people stood in a circle around a certain celebrity. The celebrity said a few words and made everyone laugh flatly.

There were also young men and women partying and reveling by the swimming pool. A fat man in shorts threw himself into the water, splashing a lot of water, causing a burst of laughter, screaming and roaring.

Daniel has a lot of parties. His record company just signed Jared Leto’s rock band. The name is weird. It’s called 30 to Mars (30; ToMars), which fits his style well, Jerry. Deletto is considered popular and has been playing music for many years. He has real power. Under the operation of Daniel, this crossover should be able to help the record company earn a fortune.

Obviously Jared Leto will not choose Daniel's company to sign for no reason. They should have reached a tacit alliance in the fight for the cold mountain hero.

Yeremov was very upset, but there was nothing he could do. In the previous agreement between himself and Daniel, the Cold Mountain Project would accept the investment of Daniel's newly established Glass Pictures, so he was naturally one of the producers.

Daniel is indeed very positive and has credit. He has placed great expectations on the Cold Mountain project. If everything goes as he wishes, then the shot will be the bestseller Cold Mountain adaptation of the film and Jared Leto’s band, both in Hollywood and the record industry. A strong signal of a comeback was issued.

How can he be one of the top six presidents, this kind of handwork is in line with his identity.

"APLUS, the people from Touchstone Pictures are here, do you want to go down and talk?"

Thinking of who would show up, the host Daniel knocked on the door and asked in a loud and drunken voice: "Wait for the Leto brothers' band to perform."

"I don't want to socialize tonight."

Song Ya opened the door and put him in. He turned to the computer screen that opened on the table and said that he had something to do, "If the touchstone people want to talk about business, can you bring them to me?"

"OK, no problem!"

Daniel readily agreed, bent over and stared at the page of the American Music website on the screen in a drunken manner, then hummed the song and went out and closed the door thoughtfully.

Speaking of, Dile was the keyboard player he gave to Mila when he was in charge of SBK records. Maybe he had placed great expectations on Dile. He has been unremittingly signing a lot of street rock bands over the years, digging and discovering , There must be a long-term process to cultivate Dile...

Of course he would no longer mention Dile now, as if he had forgotten this person.

In fact, most media have chosen to forget. Some music and Internet media have summed up and recalled Dila’s life history, and posted some memorial or introduction to the cause of death. The location is not conspicuous. The completion of the task of concluding the coffin is very popular Almost going down.

Song Ya casually pressed F5 to refresh the page, everything went as usual, he looked at the time again, it was less than eleven.

"Zhang, how's the situation on your side?" He called William Zhang, president of Amerika Music.

"Everything is ready, starting at zero o'clock on time." William Zhang replied briefly.

"OK."

Then he had to wait again. He continued to peep from behind the curtains. This time he saw a luxury car being let straight into the door of the villa, the door opened, and Shakira walked down.

"Hmph, just grab it and count me lose."

His ex-wife's behavior, he was prepared, his mouth turned up, he smiled like a scumbag, and then took a sip of wine.

"My dear? Why are you here!?" Soon, he was pleasantly surprised and unexpectedly opening his arms to the Guan Xuan girlfriend who opened the door.

"Is this your business in Hollywood?"

Shakira looked around, touched, smelled, complained but jumped up and hung on the man with satisfaction.

"Hmm... Are you assigning right? No way, it's like this almost every day here."

After a lingering long kiss, Song Ya asked back: "Have fun with friends in New York?"

"Generally, I don't know the rappers very well..." she replied with a pouting mouth, "but it's really complicated and messy over there, as you said."

"You don't have to worry about that, just don't get involved, is the recording of the new album smooth?"

The two were chatting, and Daniel appeared again, this time with someone from Touchstone Pictures, "Excuse me, APLUS?"

"No, please come in."

Shakira released her arms around the man's neck and jumped down.

"Miss Shakira, it's an honor..."

After the greeting, the people at Touchstone Pictures heard the news that the girl next door was going to be scheduled for October, which meant that they would be fighting against their darling project, which they invested heavily in. Both were issued by Bowei Pictures and released on the film. Both parties would definitely be affected, so they came over.

"As a partner of the Cold Mountain project, can you adjust the date of the girl next door opening a little bit?"

They can't help the girl next door, but they have an influence on the Cold Mountain project.

"No way, old Larry is recovering in the hospital. He can only cut the girl next door in September, and another movie of Xiao Lizi during Thanksgiving is about to start painting. We must hurry up before the celebrities... …"

Song Ya repeats the pretexts that he has prepared long ago, which is no longer considered a pretext, as it is.

"Change to early November?" People from Touchstone Pictures suggested.

"I don't know, you should talk to Yeremov." Yeremov will naturally bear the pressure on such trivial matters. Song Ya sat down and took the Latin girl in his arms and asked, "But we always thought you were and Oprah’s darling will start painting on Thanksgiving."

"Ok."

The people from Touchstone Films looked at each other and said, "Later, they adjusted according to the actual situation..." They were tight-lipped, and they didn't say anything inside except this sentence.

"I understand that for an 80 million project, the focus should be careful."

Then there is nothing to talk about, because Daniel is helping the people of Touchstone Pictures for Leng Shan, Song Ya feels a little unhappy, and quickly sends him away.

At midnight, the alarm clock rang, he stopped laughing and playing with Shakira in the bathroom, put on the bathrobe and walked to the computer to refresh.

‘Click...’

There are two red posts on the top page of the forum homepage of the American Music website. One is to inform users that the community rules have been revised, and the other is a notice of emergency maintenance of the attachment server.

"Has it started?" He called again.

"Yes, other communities have also started." William Zhang replied.

So he logged on to the music section of large websites such as YAHOO, AOL, WebChat, etc., with similar methods, and clicked into a sharing post of his own song. Those MP3 and other audio format attachments could not be opened one after another...

"Ok?"

At noon the next day, in New York, Rashida Jones was logging onto the website with a coffee in his hand, preparing for daily maintenance of her hot posts. She has cultivated this habit for a long time, very regular, and more serious than her studies and work.

But something was wrong this time, she found that some pictures in her post could not be opened.

The latest and hottest is the post about taking photos with APLUS in France. In the photo, the two laughed at the camera under the romantic French sunshine. She pouted to APLUS's cheeks and wanted to kiss or not.

The posts were full of neat messages from APLUS fans expressing envy and hatred. She couldn't help but appreciate it again, and then turned into self-pity.

"Damn it! I almost forgot to do business!"

She woke up from the girl’s dream and clicked on other posts. Indeed, many pictures were gone and turned into little red crosses. There were many new notifications in the background of the website, which started at midnight last night.

‘Due to receiving notification from the copyright owner...sports photo agency, the website has now deleted your...pictures. ’

‘Based on the new version of the community agreement, this site believes that the picture of your post is suspected of infringement and has now been deleted... If you have any questions, please send an email to...’

They are all similar words.

"What the hell! I got it so hard!" She threw the mouse furiously.

At the same time, two freshmen from Northeastern University of Massachusetts also discovered this change. Both of them are active users of the American music website. Unlike Rashida, they mainly mix the music sharing section and prefer rock and roll.

"WTF!?"

Sean Parker hugged his head in pain. He worked so hard to sort out the uploaded songs, and his emotions quickly turned into anger. "Are they legal to do this? This violates our freedom!"

"The website space provided by private companies is not a public place. It is not protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution?" Shaun's companion, Shaun Fanning, should calm down. "Other websites seem to be blocking similar sharing behaviors. This seems to be a unified action."

"FXXK! These bandits!!!"

Sean Parker is a genius programmer, business-minded, and bold. He has a flash of inspiration, "These Internet capitals are too arrogant, and users' sharing needs are still blocked. This is a vast market! They are! Would rather not...Then we just take the opportunity to develop our own, pure user-to-user software for sharing songs!"

"Napster!"

The two of them spoke in unison, expressing the dreams they had already in their hearts.

"APLUS, are you still asleep?" At Daniel's house, Song Ya was dumbfounded to answer mobile phones that had many missed calls. It was Sloan's voice. "The share price of Littman Media fell sharply in the morning. We are optimistic about giving up these users..."

"Haha, haven't you been mentally prepared? You regret it?" Song Ya asked with a smile.

"It's not regrettable, but the stock price... The market value has fallen below 800 million, and it may fall in the afternoon... Well, I do regret it a bit now," Sloan admitted.

"There are no traitors on other sites, right?"

"But they are large, and the percentage of hits affected is not high..." Sloan said: "AOL and WebChat only dropped slightly, and YAHOO has also increased."

"Oh?"

Song Ya got up and landed on YAHOO, "Their music community is also deleting?" Also found that many attachments could not be opened.

"You try his search engine." Sloan prompted.

Well, Song Ya randomly typed the title of her own song, and found a lot of web pages for sharing and downloading.

"Outside stations, YAHOO can use search engines to divert to the small sharing servers set up by individuals." Sloan complained calmly, "It's really cunning. It's hard to say whether it is a loss or a profit. I doubt they have been prepared. , Traitor! I will protest to them later."

"Who told them to have this function, it is a portal."

Song Ya smiled bitterly, "Besides, it's not them that is being held by Universal, it's the American music website."

"Hehe, by the way, Jim Clark is looking for you. It's best to call you back as soon as possible."

"OK."

Song Ya looked at Shakira who was still sleeping and went out alone to find something to eat. "Morning, Daniel." He met Daniel who was reading the newspaper in the restaurant and greeted casually.

"Morning?" Daniel smiled and pointed to the clock that was approaching twelve o'clock.

"Hey..."

Song Ya sat down across from him, first asked the servant for a cup of coffee, and then dialed Jim Clark.

"What are your plans for yesterday's touchstone opinion? I suggest that Yeremov change the schedule to the beginning of November, which is good for everyone." Daniel mentioned last night again.

Song Ya pointed to the phone and made a gesture of making a call.

"We think we must continue to add some pressure to the record industry."

Jim Clark said on the other end: "Just to be safe."

"Please speak."

"This is APLUS. Do you remember that the six major record companies had monopoly cases, but they are still pending?" Jim Clark asked: "The maximum fine may be as high as billions?"

"It seems... there is such a thing."

Song Ya was taken aback and immediately glanced at Daniel. The other party was unconscious and was already focusing on reading the newspaper, "Wait a minute." He got up and walked outside the restaurant.

"We all regret it a little bit. It's too passive. I remember that the record industry joined forces to form a CD price alliance, which triggered the RPM (resale price maintenance) in monopolistic behavior, right? Six major players participated? Is this your friend, Daniel Glass, then president of Sony Columbia Records?"

Jim Clark said domineeringly: "We are going to provide some help to the plaintiff in private, tighten the noose for the recording industry, and let them be honest in the Digital Millennium Act. How about you persuade that Daniel Glass to turn into a tainted witness? He is The central character, this way the progress will be much faster."

"The lawsuit is not going to end."

Song Ya looked back at Daniel at the table again, UU reading www.uukanshu. Com lowered his voice, "Going to court to testify against the record industry...will make him socially dead."

"Haha, don't pretend to be some kind of warmhearted guy, APLUS, we know it's not difficult for you."

Jim Clark laughed, "Isn't it? Everyone has always appreciated your ruthlessness...and decisiveness."

"I think about it." Song Ya dropped a word and hung up.

"APLUS, how about the person I made an appointment with the touchstone today, let's go talk to Yeremov? Or you call him here?"

Daniel, who knows nothing about the conversation between him and Jim Clark just now, is still struggling over and over how to please Touchstone Pictures, not to offend Lengshan's partner.

"Let's talk about it." Song Ya was emotionally perfunctory and immersed himself in dealing with food.

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