Chapter 235: Brought to justice
Wang Danhui, marketing director of Too China, only heard from her assistant Sun Jie that the media was hyping about the pirated version of Too's CAD software. When Sun Jie told Wang Danhui about this matter, she was somewhat displeased, thinking that Wang Danhui deliberately bypassed her and directly operated this matter. If this is the case, it means that Wang Danhui is quite dissatisfied with her work, and may even have moved to fire her squid.
"This isn't our propaganda!"
After a few glances at the newspaper that Sun Jie had collected for herself, Wang Danhui shouted in shock.
"Mr. Wang, is this really not arranged by you?" Sun Jie asked in a half-believing tone, "Didn't you meet reporter Li from Science and Technology Daily last week?"
"I saw him for next month's computer exhibition, and I didn't ask him to send such a manuscript. Wang Danhui said.
"Didn't he mention this manuscript at the time?" Sun Jie asked.
Wang Danhui shook her head categorically: "Definitely not, if he said that he wanted to send a manuscript related to us, how could I not let him send the manuscript to me first? I have already explained to those reporters, but if any article involving our company is sent without permission if I don't show it, we will investigate their legal responsibility." ”
Sun Jie muttered disdainfully in her heart, now that so many newspapers have published news about Tu'o, you don't even know about it, and you have the ability to investigate their legal responsibility.
Thinking like this in her heart, Sun Jie didn't dare to say it, she guessed cautiously: "Say so...... Is it because the state has a new policy to severely rectify the problem of piracy?"
Wang Danhui spread out a few newspapers again, read them carefully several times, and her eyebrows wrinkled into a pimple: "Sun Jie, have you read these reports? Most of these articles are about the piracy of Tuo CAD, and there is almost no mention of any piracy such as windows and office, which is strange." ”
"Really?" Sun Jie leaned her head over, followed a few paragraphs, and a cloud of doubt surged in her heart: "Yes, these manuscripts are simply written specifically for us, and other software matters are either not mentioned, and even if they are mentioned, they are understated, as if they don't matter." Could it be that this is a draft arranged by the headquarters, Mr. Wang, do you think the headquarters has any new marketing plan for China?"
"No, right?" Wang Danhui also felt unsteady, the same as Sun Jie's thoughts just now. If it was really the headquarters that did it, but she didn't greet her, the marketing director of a Chinese company, the problem would be serious.
"Jingle bell!"
The phone on the desk rang, Wang Danhui picked up the phone, and the voice of the front desk secretary came from the receiver:
"Director Wang, reporter Feng from the Economic Daily is here and says he wants to interview you, will you see her?"
Wang Danhui's heart moved: "You let her in." ”
After a while, Feng Qianqian, an IT reporter from the Economic Daily, came to Wang Danhui's office. Wang Danhui beckoned Feng Qianqian to sit down with a spring breeze on her face, and instructed Sun Jie to pour a cup of tea for Feng Qianqian. Her performance was so attentive that Feng Qianqian was taken aback.
Wang Danhui succeeded Li Kejia as marketing director of Too China, following her resignation. Feng Qianqian, as a reporter specializing in the IT industry, has dealt with Li Kejia and Wang Danhui, and is quite familiar with the character of these two.
In the past, when Li Kejia was the marketing director, the relationship with Feng Qianqian was basically equal. If Feng Qianqian asks for an interview, Li Kejia will try her best to meet it, and if she can't meet it, she will apologize again and again, explaining the reasons, so as not to make Feng Qianqian feel embarrassed.
After Wang Danhui took office, she changed Li Kejia's style and put on a big show as a foreign company executive in front of media reporters, for fear that others would not know how good she was. Feng Qianqian has eaten at Wang Danhui's place several times behind closed doors, and this time she came to interview her, she was also mentally prepared to be turned away.
But who would have thought that the sun would actually come out of the west, and Wang Danhui, who has always posed bigger than Bill Gates, actually showed her a smile and praised her beautiful clothes without saying anything. Can I be considered beautiful in this dress? This is clearly what I bought for 10 yuan at the Guanyuan Wholesale Market last week, and I just used it as a work clothes, right?
Feng Qianqian couldn't figure out whether Wang Danhui had taken the wrong medicine, but it was better for the other party to make such a friendly gesture than to be cold to herself. She talked a few words with Wang Danhui and got to the point:
"Director Wang, in the past few days, a number of central media have reported on the rampant software piracy in China, especially mentioning the pirated copy of Tuo CAD. Some media estimate that the direct loss of Tu'ao CAD software due to piracy is more than 10 billion yuan. May I ask Director Wang, does this number match the number you have?"
"Well...... We haven't made a precise estimate of the specific damage, but the figure estimated in the media, well, I think it should be more consistent with our feelings. Wang Danhui replied hesitantly.
With a figure of 10 billion yuan, Wang Danhui actually doesn't believe it at all. How big can China's software market be, and can all the software sales in a year make up 10 billion yuan? After all, CAD is only a niche software, how can it be possible to calculate the value of 10 billion yuan?
However, people have estimated 10 billion for you, and you really can't refute the rumors. If you say it's not that much, the media may distort it into the idea that you don't have much to lose, and there's no need to make a fuss.
Wang Danhui didn't think about whether she wanted to make a fuss or not. The performance requirements of the headquarters for Chinese companies are very low, and an annual growth of 10% is enough, which is still a growth rate above a very low base. It wasn't that HQ was unaware of software piracy, but it didn't ask her to take any effective action to curb it. To put it bluntly, the headquarters doesn't care about it.
Even the headquarters doesn't care, so why should she Wang Danhui care?
However, the same cannot be said. No company dares to openly say that they don't care about piracy, instead, they have to constantly emphasize how much piracy has cost them. If someone calculates for them that the piracy loss they have suffered is 10 billion, they can only say that it is more than that, and it should be calculated to 20 billion, and they must not think that others have overestimated, but in fact it is not that much.
"So, Director Wang, have you taken any effective measures to protect your legitimate rights and interests for such a serious piracy problem?" Feng Qianqian continued to ask.
"Of course!" Wang Danhui said solemnly, "We have been calling for the protection of intellectual property rights. Our company has also been reporting the situation to the relevant government departments and asking the relevant departments to take strict measures. By the way, we also intend to punish those shameful pirates through judicial means. ”
Is there it? Sun Jie, who was sitting on the side, pouted, when did the company plan to defend its rights through judicial means? The last time I proposed to Wang Danhui that I could do this, I was reprimanded by Wang Danhui.
Feng Qianqian didn't know such an inside story, she quickly recorded Wang Danhui's words in the interview book, and asked at the same time: "Director Wang, you just said that you plan to take judicial measures, will your Beijing company do this, or will the headquarters of Too do this?"
"Of course, it is the request made by the headquarters, and it is implemented by our Beijing company. Wang Danhui made up nonsense without blinking.
"So, have you started doing this?"
"It's not started yet, because we're still collecting evidence. We already have information on at least 20,000 pirated users, and we will soon submit the list to the judiciary so that they can bring them to justice. ”
"It's so deserved!" Feng Qianqian felt a little resentful of the same enemy, "Director Wang, I feel that the legal awareness of people in our country is too indifferent, as an executive of a multinational company, can you tell me what kind of punishment will the pirate receive if such a piracy situation occurs abroad?"
"Punishment...... Wang Danhui's mind spun quickly, thinking about how to answer. She didn't know what the laws and regulations were in foreign countries, or even how piracy was punished in China. However, in the past, her shelf in front of reporters was too big, and now she has to say that she has never actually been abroad, and she doesn't know what is going on abroad, can she say it?
"I think the sentence is the minimum!" Wang Danhui recalls watching foreign movies, "foreign laws are very strict, piracy is punishable by more than five years in prison, and if the circumstances are serious, life imprisonment is also possible." Foreign countries are very human rights, and the death penalty has been abolished, otherwise it ......"
"You mean, piracy is punishable by death?" Feng Qianqian asked in amazement.
"I mean, it's serious. Wang Danhui hurriedly recycled her words, she patronized the dress fork just now, forgot to type the draft, and seemed to be oversaying, "In most cases, of course, it is the sentence, plus the fine, the fine of $1 million is considered light."
"When I was training in the United States, I read a case in the newspaper about a lawyer who went to the bag storage office at the train station to deposit a match, and when they didn't agree, he sued the bag storage office and made the bag storage office pay him millions of dollars. You see, how strong is the legal awareness of Americans? Piracy is certainly much more serious than that, so it is completely reasonable to impose a fine of $1 million on the pirate. ”
"I see. Feng Qianqian nodded, or how to say that the executives of foreign companies are well-informed, such a chicken soup for the soul story can be blurted out, which is really admirable.
But this story is clearly what I told you after I saw it in The Reader, and you read it in a newspaper in the United States? Also, when did you go to the United States for training, and do you have a passport?
Sun Jie's mouth was almost pulled to the edge of her ear.
(End of chapter)