Chapter 162: Facebook is in trouble
Enterprises in the Celestial Empire are often very afraid of lawsuits with foreign companies, and they always feel that they are inferior, and they are afraid that they will get into trouble.
Some people lose the braid on their head, but the braid in their heart is always there. Since the Manchus broke the backbone of the Celestial Empire, the people of the Celestial Empire have spent a lot of effort and have not fully stood up.
But Jiang Hui is obviously not a person who is afraid of things, although he knows that Facebook is not really plagiarizing the intranet, and even his own intranet is imitating it in later generations, but who knows now? Shopping malls are like battlefields, and Facebook is destined to become a stepping stone on the road to the rise of intranets.
Tang Wenwen and Xiang Weiwei contacted the law firm, reported the progress to Jiang Hui, and began to notify the law firm to sue Facebook in Boston District Court for infringing on the rights and interests of the school, imitating and plagiarizing the idea of the school's intranet. In order to make this lawsuit better hit the opponent, Jiang Hui specially arranged for Tang Wenwen to go to the United States in person, Tang Wenwen has a green card in the United States, and he doesn't need to apply for any messy visas, and he can leave at any time.
"Zach, it's not good, it's not good."
"Linda, what are you doing, panicking, did al-Qaeda attack the United States?".
"I don't know if al-Qaeda has attacked the United States again, but our company has been attacked. ”
"Who, who is so bold to come to Harvard University to make trouble?".
"It's not that someone is here to make trouble, it's that we have received a lawyer's letter, and we are being accused."
"We're being accused, who's suing us?".
"It was the school intranet that they sued us for plagiarism and asked us to shut down the website within a set time, and publish an apology and compensation for the loss of the school intranet. ”
"Joke, when do I Zack need to plagiarize someone? This is slander, this is jealousy, they are bullying their competitors, how can it be justified".
"But we know that it's useless to have no plagiarism, and now many people have started to reprint this message on the school intranet and Facebook, and some people have made comparative materials to prove the similarities between our website and the school intranet. A lot of people believe that we are plagiarizing, and some people have already threatened to never use our website again."
"No, I'm not going to give in, I'm going to resist".
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The lawsuit against Facebook is not a big deal in the Internet world, after all, Facebook is still too weak now, and many people have not heard of them, but it has indeed attracted wide attention from the Internet community of the Celestial Empire and major universities in the Boston area. The Internet community of the Celestial Empire is concerned about this case, mainly because this is the first case of the Celestial Empire's Internet companies suing American companies, and in the past, most of them were companies from other countries suing Celestial Empire companies for plagiarism, but it is rare that this time it is the other way around. It's better to understand that Boston-area colleges and universities are concerned about this case, after all, the outcome of this case is related to whether they can use Facebook properly in the future.
Under the publicity of the school intranet, intentionally or unintentionally, this case is slowly getting bigger and bigger.
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Penguin.com: Recently, a lawsuit filed by a well-known Internet company in China against a company in the United States for copying and plagiarizing its own website has attracted widespread attention. It is reported that in February this year, the American company launched a website that is extremely similar to the intranet of the school, and the website has now attracted the use of a large number of college students in Harvard University and other colleges and universities. The reporter of this site interviewed Lin Zhen, the director of the public relations department of the school's intranet, according to Miss Lin......
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Yahoo News reports: Plagiarism and being plagiarized on the Internet happens all the time, and we should be vigilant about this. Recently, the well-known campus SNS website Intranet has begun to take up legal weapons to protect its legitimate rights and interests. Launched in November 2003, the intranet was launched in early December and now has more than 6 million college students. The company that copied the intranet was a website created by an American college student, and the layout, positioning, and even color tone of the website were almost identical to the intranet, making it hard to believe that such a thing could happen in the great United States......
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Somewhere at Harvard University.
"Jenny, have you been using Facebook lately?"
"Yes, isn't this website basically used in our schools?".
"However, I heard that Facebook was plagiarizing someone else's website, and now it has been taken to court."
"Ahh
"I don't know, but I went to Google and looked up the other company, and the company called Intranet was launched three months before Facebook, and when Facebook was founded, it already had more than 3 million college students, and now it has more than 6 million global users. It is said that it is also very popular in island countries and Southeast Asia, and even in the United States, there are many people who use it."
"Oh my God, is Facebook really copying someone else? It's shameful, how could I fall in love with such a site, and I'll just log it off when I go back."
"Me too, I'm going to go to the school intranet to see if it's fun."
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"Zach, it's a bit of a bad situation, the number of registrations on our website is actually declining."
"How is it possible, it used to be increasing every day".
"Zach, that's before".
"Damn the intranet, I'm going to sue them in turn, sue them for slander, I didn't plagiarize, I didn't !!."
"Zach, I believe you, I'm sure you won't do such a shameful thing, but I believe it's useless."
"What to do, the court will be held in a few days, Facebook must not be blocked, I have to think of a way."
"The current situation is very unfavorable for us, all the evidence shows that we are indeed plagiarizing the intranet, and the jury will not easily believe our words."
"Where is the office in the intranet? I have to contact them, I have to negotiate with them."
"I can't contact them right now, and there is no office in the United States, so I can try to contact the law firm they commissioned to see if I can get in touch with the people on the intranet."
"As soon as possible, immediately, immediately."
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After Tang Wenwen arrived in the United States, he first met with a law firm, and then continued to visit some former friends, some of whom had a certain influence in the media, and some were experts and scholars in some fields, and they had some influence on the intranet lawsuit against Facebook.
Just as Mr. Tang was constantly moving, a phone call from the law firm came to him, saying that someone from Facebook wanted to meet with him and talk about the lawsuit.
Tang also wanted to meet with Facebook personnel before the court session to find out what their attitude is towards this lawsuit, which will also have a certain impact on what actions he will take today.