After listening to Director Wang's words, Mr. Li's brows furrowed deeply.

It's hard!

In these years, why is it so difficult to do business with peace of mind!

I am a top Internet expert, advocating the supremacy of technology, believing that the Internet is free, unrestrained, and should be free!

Therefore, since its establishment, Baidu has been biased towards technology over marketing, and rarely takes the initiative to trouble other companies.

But why do other companies like to come to Baidu for trouble?

Before this time, Baidu has also encountered many similar situations, that is, other companies sued Baidu for infringement and the like, but the scale is not as large as this time.

Mr. Li believes that other companies may envy Baidu's development speed, but they can't surpass Baidu technologically, so they can only use this "obscene means" to attack Baidu.

Take the so-called online music video anti-piracy alliance organized by Facebook Entertainment this time, and the target is directly aimed at Baidu.

What is their purpose?

Obviously, they want to complete their monopoly by cracking down on Baidu.

In the Internet industry, only the top companies can make money.

Among them, companies that can achieve a monopoly in a certain field can make a lot of money.

In the past, although Facebook has become a hegemon in the domestic Internet industry, it has not been involved in the search field at all, so it has no competition with Baidu.

Watching Facebook fight with Tencent, Shanda, NetEase, Sohu, Sina and other companies, and fighting happily, Mr. Li was secretly happy at that time.

But now, depending on the situation, is Facebook going to attack Baidu?

In addition, Mr. Li has heard that Facebook, the company behind Facebook Entertainment, has made efforts in the international market, and the new CEO of Facebook North America is an old acquaintance.

One of Yahoo's core executives, Lu Qi!

This person is very familiar and experienced in the search industry, is Facebook going to start a search engine business?

Mr. Li feels that it is very possible, and this time he sued Baidu for infringement, which is to engage Baidu.

"We have to be mentally prepared for the worst this time! Everyone must know how strong the legal department on Facebook is. This time, the other party has pulled in so many allies to denounce us together, and the momentum is too loud, we ...... I guess I can't resist. ”

In the conference room, except for Mr. Li's voice, everyone else was silent.

Glancing at everyone, Mr. Li continued: "Prepare with both hands, and the Ministry of External Public Relations will draft an announcement immediately." ”

Director Wang nodded hurriedly, opened the notebook, and prepared to record Mr. Li's words.

"In the announcement, the attitude should be sincere, indicating that we at Baidu absolutely do not intend to condone infringement and piracy, and over the years, we have also made unremitting efforts to combat piracy! ”

"Also, didn't they target our Baidu video software, saying that we were hotlinking their copyrighted products. Then euphemistically tell them that this is only part of the search engine function, and that Internet users have the right to find those things through search engines. We are also just for the sake of user experience, and it is not an infringement and piracy in essence. ”

"Of course, if they insist that we block their website, then we understand and respect their request. It's just that they have to be prepared to lose a lot of internet user traffic. ”

"This is our announcement, neither humble nor arrogant, and it sets out the facts. In addition, our legal department will actively respond to lawsuits. You should be more experienced in this area, and it is a procrastination trick! Try to drag it out as much as possible, and in the end they will have to agree to reconcile with us......"

I have to say that Mr. Li is also a person who has seen the world, and his thinking logic is still very clear.

In the face of Facebook Entertainment's menacing prosecution, he did not panic, but responded appropriately.

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At the same time as announcing the lawsuit against Baidu, Facebook Entertainment did not sit idle, but made technical upgrades to the company's website and servers.

Blocks all external web crawlers, not only Baidu's, but all unauthorized websites.

In other words, other websites should no longer want to steal any resources of Facebook videos and Facebook music by reconnecting links.

If users want to watch videos and listen to songs, they must come to Facebook Video and Facebook Music.

Many users who used to like to listen to songs and watch movies on Baidu Video and Audio soon discovered a depressing thing.

That is, many movies and TV series, including songs, can be searched for a lot of resources on Baidu.

But when they click in, they find that none of these resources are available!

In the past, no matter what movie or TV series, you could find a lot of resources on the Internet, why can't you watch it now.

This is the result of the upgrade of Facebook Entertainment technology, the vast majority of pirate websites are unable to provide resources to play and download on their own servers due to cost.

Because it requires a lot of servers and a lot of bandwidth, the cost is too high and definitely not something that a small website can afford.

Therefore, those pirated small websites use hotlink technology for film and television drama resources, and the average user thinks that they are watching movies and TV series directly on the small website, but in fact, the background link is directly connected to Facebook video......

Not only small websites, but also large Internet companies such as Baidu also use hotlink technology.

Of course, Baidu does not consider the cost, but the legal risk.

If it's just a hotlink, it can also be said to be a resource link uploaded spontaneously by netizens. But if these pirated resources are all on their own servers, then the explanation is not clear, and the legal risk is too great.

But the consequence of this is that after Facebook Video and Facebook Music are upgraded, all crawlers on external websites will be blocked, and all the original links will be invalid.

If users want to watch those movies and television dramas, they can only go to Facebook Video to watch them.

The lawsuit against Baidu has not officially begun, and the number of users of Facebook videos and Facebook music has begun to skyrocket.

It can be said that Facebook Entertainment's intentions are halfway done.

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Baidu's response was also very swift, and the day after Facebook Entertainment took the lead in creating the "China Online Music Video Anti-Piracy Alliance" and issued an announcement, Baidu officially responded.

The director of Baidu's external public relations department held a press conference.

At the meeting, in front of many media reporters in the audience, he said sincerely.

"We at Baidu support the Online Anti-Piracy Alliance, and if we can, we also hope to join the Alliance and contribute to the cause of online anti-piracy.

But for their announcement, I deeply regret it!

Over the years, Baidu has been resolute in its attitude towards combating piracy and infringement, and has done a lot of work behind the scenes. ”

"For example, we have independently developed an automatic filtering system for anti-piracy videos, and many pirated video websites are not searchable on our website at all, effectively preventing the spread of piracy. ”

But he said that at this time, a reporter in the audience demolished the stage for him.

I don't know where a voice came from said: "That's because people didn't pay you, all pirated websites that pay money will rank higher in the search results than genuine websites!"

Director Wang's face was a little ugly, he pretended not to hear what the audience said, and continued to talk about himself.

"Second, we have opened a green complaint channel for copyright owners and websites. As long as we find that your products are infringed on Baidu, you can contact our customer service staff through the green complaint channel to help you solve the problem of infringement. ”

The voice came out again, "It's someone who can contact you, but you'll just say you know, please wait for verification." There may be no more news!"

Mr. Wang couldn't help it, he looked at the audience and said: "Which reporter friend is this, thank you for your opinions, if you can, can you wait for me to finish, and then we will talk alone." ”

The audience really stood up and said generously: "It's me, if Director Wang wants to talk, I can do an interview for you." ”

When Director Wang saw it, he immediately felt empty, it turned out that this reporter was from Dragon TV News Channel!

This is a big TV station, and I can't afford to mess with it......

In addition, he also understands why this reporter seems to be specifically targeting Baidu, Dragon TV and Facebook are quite close, no wonder.

As if nothing had happened, he continued: "Next, we will also take measures to proactively guide genuine and high-quality websites and reject pirated and infringing websites. Especially those malicious pirate websites, we will take technical measures to block them completely!"

This is the attitude that Baidu has made in front of the public.

After being beaten by the big Vs on Facebook, Baidu's reputation has become a bit stinky, and they have to reverse the situation.

Otherwise, the lawsuit hasn't been fought yet, and it's not certain who will lose and who won, but in the eyes of everyone, Baidu has become a rat crossing the street, and everyone shouts and beats.

However, although Baidu has a lot of traffic, they do not have their own voice platform......

If there is something on Facebook, it will be announced directly on its own website, and then the big Vs who are closely related to it will collectively speak out, and it will directly form a hot topic on the whole network, and everyone knows about it.

As for Baidu, it even relied on holding a press conference to explain some things.

Mr. Li saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart.

Its own Baidu company controls a huge Internet traffic entrance, but it can't keep this traffic to convert it into its own users.

This matter has always been the biggest pain in his heart!

The reason why we engage in hotlink infringement and make various content websites is to retain and convert these traffic.

But at present, not only did it not achieve the effect, but it caused a lot of commotion.

Baidu must transform again, to create something that can really retain users, and preferably have certain media attributes......

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