Chapter 126: The Father of BT

When Lin Feng was discussing the agency contract with Newell, he suddenly remembered the first-person shooter online game that was popular in China before his rebirth - "Interstellar Online".

This online game, which was once popular in China, was no less popular than "Legend" at that time, but unfortunately it was finally stopped by players who were blindly tossed and troubled by domestic agencies, and finally had no choice but to stop serving, which caused countless obsessive players to sigh. In order to make up for the regrets in my heart, players who have conditions and understand English will switch to the American service, and all that remains is to remember the past night when bullets flew and artillery fire was in the sky, which made countless people crazy and exciting.

"I'm not afraid of enemies like wolves, I'm afraid of teammates like pigs. This is a quote that all players will be able to do.

Now Newell's "Counter-Strike online" is still affected by stand-alone CS in terms of networking, and the networking is not thorough enough, Lin Feng secretly compared the two games in his heart, and said his suggestion.

Lin Feng proposed adding a hierarchy to the game, where players relied on killing enemies to gain experience and level up their characters. The higher the level, the more weapons the player can choose from. However, there is no difference in strength between high-level and low-level characters, and a level 1 character can also kill a top-level character.

Then there is the abolition of the money system, and all equipment is supplied directly from the base. It is proposed to launch a large map in the later stage, providing armored vehicles, planes, and even ships for players to use for all-round battles on land, sea and air - this is also a reference to "Star Online".

For Lin Feng's proposal, Newell and Mihn Lee were eye-catching, which can greatly increase the player's sense of substitution, enhance the player's enthusiasm for the game, and believe that it will contribute to the popularity of "Counter-Strike Online". However, Lin Feng Zuihou's proposal to launch a large map and provide armored vehicles and planes for players to use was something they hadn't expected before, so it would take a lot of time to complete this.

Regarding Newell's concerns, Lin Feng reassured him. This can be done in the future with a slow rollout of its expansion, but it can be left out for now.

After some detailed communication, the two sides finally reached an amicable agency agreement.

Lin Feng won the agency rights of "Counter-Strike Online" in Asia with an agency fee of $10 million, and Valve enjoyed 20% of the profit share of "Counter-Strike" every year.

With this contract, Lin Feng knew that he had taken a big advantage. This is a popular online game all over the world, and it is like pie in the sky to get it at such a low price. As for complete agency, Lin Feng didn't want it at all. I wanted the full copyright of the other party for the game before, and it was also out of anti-piracy, and "Counter-Strike Online" is a first-person online game, and the general plug-in is useless.

As for the plug-ins such as "gun and gun head" and "accelerated walking" that appear in the CS of the stand-alone game, it can be easily eliminated with today's jishu, and there is no need to worry too much about it. Therefore, Lin Feng did not mention its full copyright at all.

After an amicable agreement, both sides relaxed. Newell also accompanied Lin Feng to visit Silicon Valley and introduced the current environment of Silicon Valley. I have to say that Silicon Valley is indeed worthy of being the concentration of Shijie's electronics industry, where Cisco, Intel, HP, Lucent, Apple and other large companies gathered, looking at the endless stream of pedestrians on the street, don't look at a sweatshirt, T-shirts and the like, dressed very simple and plain, but you may be a millionaire or a multimillionaire with a casual pull, and it is normal to get rich overnight here.

"Mr. Lin, the cooperation is very pleasant, and I hope that we will have a lot of cooperation opportunities in the future. After signing the agreement, the two parties agreed on payment and other related matters, and Lin Feng prepared to return to Shanghai.

"It was a pleasure to work with. Lin Feng smiled slightly. This time, I not only got the agency right in China, but also got the agency right in Asia, and the harvest was very rich, which made people overjoyed.

Lin Feng and his entourage were about to leave accompanied by Newell, but at this moment, Lin Feng inadvertently glanced at the computer that a young man was tinkering with, and the whole person was stunned, thought about it, and stopped.

"Mr. Lin, who are you?" Newell looked at Lin Feng puzzled.

"May I ask who this is?" Lin Feng asked, pointing at the young man.

"Oh, this is Cohen, our newly hired jishu development team leader. Newell said.

Lin Feng nodded, smiled slightly at Cohen, who turned around, and then stared at the computer in front of Cohen.

"Hello, may I ask what software you are working on now?" Lin Feng said, pointing to a software window on the computer.

"Hello, this is a download software based on the P2P file transfer protocol that I developed when I was bored, I call it BitTorrent. Cohen said nonchalantly.

Although Cohen didn't care, Lin Feng chuckled in his heart. The heart said no wonder I looked at the software window so familiar just now, it turned out to be BT, a small but extremely important software that changed the network shijie in later generations.

The existing download software such as Flashget, etc., are all download software based on the HTTP transmission protocol, although the download is not slow, but there are many restrictions on the broadcast file, and the host needs to provide resources to download. BT, on the other hand, can freely distribute files and make them available for download to all users as long as they are seeded. And it's a multi-point upload, the more people who download it, the faster the speed.

However, BT software also involves an infringement issue, mainly when distributing movies. However, for Lin Feng, these problems can be solved, even if they can't be solved, they won't fight. Lin Feng likes that through this software, his company's name will be famous all over the world, which is the most important thing.

"Excuse me, is your software finished?" Lin Feng asked quietly.

"Hehe, it's done, it's just a download software. Obviously, Cohen didn't realize that the software he was developing was going to change Shijie. But even if you realize it, it's useless, he's a jishu talent, not a business talent. Shijie before Lin Feng's rebirth, Cohen also failed to make a fortune with BT, and he is still a poor jishu.

"Uh, then do you want to sell it? I want to buy the full rights to it, what do you think of the $50,000?" Lin Feng asked.

"You want to buy the rights to it? $50,000?" Cohen said in a high tone, this was his leisure work, but he was unexpectedly taken by people, and the price of $50,000 made him both surprised and surprised.

Although the average annual salary in Silicon Valley is more than $100,000, $50,000 is still not a small number for him. At that moment, Cohen agreed to sell his full rights to Lin Feng. As for Newell, there is no opinion on this. This is a software developed by his employees in their own spare time, and the copyright does not belong to the company, so he naturally has no right to ask. On the contrary, he was very happy that his employees could sell a small program for $50,000.

But Newell didn't know that it was because of such an oversight at this time that BT's copyright was bought by Lin Feng, which led to him begging Lin Feng instead. I have to say that the circumstances of life are like this, and they are changeable.

In order to reach an agreement and also let Cohen complete the optimization work of Zuihou, Lin Feng stayed in Silicon Valley for another day.

The next day, Lin Feng left Silicon Valley with a CD containing BT copyrights, related development data, and Cohen's experience, and signed a "Counter-Strike Online" agency agreement.

However, before the plane took off, Lin Feng received a phone call.

"Lin Dong, no, something happened to "Legend". Wu Zhaopu's eager voice came.

"What! what's wrong?" Lin Feng chuckled in his heart and hurriedly asked.

"Sir, the plane is about to take off, please turn off your phone. "A kind reminder from the flight attendant.

"But I" Lin Feng wanted to say that his company was at a critical juncture, but he also knew in his heart that if he called before the plane took off, then the lives of the people on this plane would be in danger, and in desperation, Lin Feng hurriedly said to Wu Zhaopu and asked him to deal with it as appropriate, and then turn off the mobile phone.

What the hell happened?--Lin Feng looked anxious on the plane, Lin Feng, who had just signed the agency contract and accidentally bought the full copyright of BT software, did not have the slightest sense of celebration at this moment.