Chapter 21: Piracy Gate

(The collection has been dropping, and Sanjiang is always out of play.) The shelves are far away, and the sound of Tanabata is happy!)

At noon the next day, Lin Feng received a call from Meng Dong. On the phone, Meng Dong told Lin Feng that in the morning, the municipal government held an executive meeting, focusing on the report on the Daya chemical injury incident in yesterday's "Chutian Style", and set up a special investigation team, which was jointly dispatched by the Public Security Bureau, the Environmental Protection Bureau and other relevant departments to assist in the investigation of Daya Chemical.

In this regard, Lin Feng was naturally not dissatisfied. However, Meng Dong said euphemistically that the live broadcast of the conversational interview proposed by Lin Feng before will not be accepted for the time being, and he implores Lin Feng to cooperate with the continued interview, or use the recorded broadcast method. This is also because Meng Dong is afraid that Lin Feng will take the opportunity to attack Hu Xiaoli during the live broadcast, so for the sake of safety, it is more appropriate to record and broadcast.

Lin Feng didn't express too much dissatisfaction with this, anyway, just take the opportunity to make the company's reputation better.

After the report on Lin Feng's solo interview was broadcast for three consecutive days, Lin Feng instantly became a celebrity in Chu City. After all, he is young and promising, and he is the first multimillionaire in Chu City to become public - or the dollar.

This annoyed Lin style. When Jiang Dan reported, he also reported on the signing of his contract with Tencent, and invited economic experts to analyze the 5% of Tencent shares held by Lin Feng, as well as 89.5% of the market value of Dingdang.com's shares, and the economic experts initially estimated the total value to be about 15 million US dollars.

As soon as this report was broadcast, Lin Feng's troubles increased several times. Not only relatives and friends came to him, but also various welfare organizations came to the door, begging Lin Feng to sponsor various welfare institutions, which made Lin Feng cry and laugh. While economists estimate that he does have $15 million in assets, this is only an estimate. Before the stock failed to go public, he was a poor man with no money to donate.

But what made Lin Feng even more depressed was that he said that he had no money to donate, and no one believed him. On the contrary, he scolded him for being rich and unkind, and the villain was ambitious, which made Lin Feng very angry, but even more helpless. zuihou, in order to avoid these people, Lin Feng simply didn't go to the company, and went directly to the optical disc factory.

After three days and nights of work, 20,000 CDs have been preliminarily printed. In order to ensure that the game is not pirated and sold by pirates in the first place, Lin Feng specially selected buyers from Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and other places among the 90,000 orders, and there are no buyers in coastal areas such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou, after all, it is a piracy base. Lin Feng didn't want the disc to leave the factory just after the pirated version passed.

After the game disc was sent, it took another two days, and when these players received the game trial, more videos of their personal play broke out on the Internet, and all the relevant game forums received rave reviews for Counter-Strike.

When Lin Feng's second batch of 50,000 CDs was printed, the order increased by 50,000 copies, and Lin Feng and everyone in the company smiled from ear to ear.

However, at this time, the problem was also exposed, because this game is an online battle mode, many players who get the disc can only be familiar with the game after installing it, and cannot fight. If you want to really experience the fun of this game, you have to take the disc to the Internet café, and only some players who happen to be connected to the LAN of the same building really enjoy the game. But even then, it's not convenient to go online. After all, everyone's rest time is not uniform.

Although many Internet café owners have also purchased Counter-Strike CDs and installed them to offer local battles. But for a large number of buyers who own personal computers, the environment of an Internet café is simply not comparable to that of home.

In response to this situation, Lin Feng immediately contacted the Valve development team and proposed the idea of "robot". MinhLe, the father of CS, thought it was a good idea and immediately ordered the valve development team to develop the program. In less than a day, the robot was made available for free download.

Lin Feng put it on Dingdong.com, offering a free download for players who bought the disc. And after this program, sales increased again, and before Zuihou's first pirated CD interview, Lin Feng sold a total of 200,000 copies. Although compared with the gods of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", which often has millions of copies, this sales volume is nothing, but for Lin Feng and the entire company, it is the largest single income since the establishment of the company.

200,000 copies, 20 yuan each, is 4 million yuan gross income. In addition to the cost of 3 yuan, Luo Tao's sinicization team received 1 yuan, and the valve development team shared 40% of the dividends, Lin Feng earned a total of 1920000 yuan in net profit this time, which is still cash. This greatly alleviated the company's economic crisis.

What makes Lin Feng even happier is that the sales boom of "Counter-Strike" (Counter-Strike), coupled with the cooperation with Tencent, has brought 100,000 registered sellers and 1 million registered buyers to Lin Feng's Jingdang.com, with nearly 10 million clicks per day. Dingdang.com has a faint tendency to fight against Yi X.com.

The so-called blessings and misfortunes depend on them, and misfortunes and blessings lurk. While Lin Feng reaped good news, there was also unfavorable news.

"Hey, Brother Lin, congratulations, your "Counter-Strike" (Counter-Strike) sold by Dingdang is a big hit, you have made a lot of money!" Ma Huateng suddenly called, first congratulated, and then changed his tone.

"But Brother Lin, your game shouldn't be pirated!" Ma Huateng's tone was indescribably anxious.

"What do you mean?" Lin Feng was slightly stunned.

"Someone posted on the Internet today that your game is actually a game released by a foreign development group called valve, which is available for free download worldwide, and makes money by selling CD-keys to provide global networking services. And your game doesn't provide any CD-key, saying that you are a pirate. He also implied that Tencent is also a piracy and trafficking facilitator. Ma Huateng gave Lin Feng a website.

Lin Feng opened it and took a look, and sure enough, it was a critical report on his sales of the game. The report pointed out that Lin Feng was a pirate, and called on all those who bought the disc to return the money, otherwise they would be sued by foreign companies.

And this incident was also jokingly called the "piracy gate" incident by many netizens who replied to the post. And the players who bought the disc didn't care about this, but just continued to wait and see with the mood of watching the show. Who in China has never used piracy, let alone a 20 yuan game, and it is so well-made, may it be genuine!

"Brother Lin, is this really the case?" Ma Huateng had to be anxious, Teng X.com was developing vigorously, if the company's development was affected because of this "piracy gate" incident, it would be too wronged for Ma Huateng. And his cooperation with Lin Feng was the most unsuccessful cooperation. If you don't get it right, the entire Teng X network will collapse because of this.

Ma Huateng's worries, Lin Feng is naturally clear.

"Okay, Ma Dong, don't worry, I'll send you a document and you'll know. But be sure to delete it after reading it. Lin Feng smiled and emailed the agreement signed with MinhLe, the father of CS, to Ma Huateng.

"Okay, you Lin Feng, you really have you, make me worry in vain!" Ma Huateng was happy after reading it, although this agreement is not glorious, but at least Lin Feng will not have any trouble, as long as the valve development team does not sue Lin Feng, Lin Feng will not have any legal responsibility, and Tencent will not receive any involvement.

"Okay, I'll find someone to post an article to refute the gunman. Ma Huateng calmed down, and his thoughts became active, "This 'piracy gate' incident, I guess it is an action by your competitors against you. I just ordered the staff to check, the first post, the IP address should be from the internal IP of Yi X.com. Hmph, he wants to use this time to stink your reputation and hit your jingle net. ”

When Lin Feng heard this, his heart was angry. Although the shopping mall has entered the battlefield, it is really too shameless for such a large company to play such a despicable method. But after thinking about it, it is normal for Shiyi X to help sellers brush credit in the future.

"Don't worry, Ma Dong, if I have the opportunity, I will repay them for this 'gift'. Lin Feng smiled gloomily.

"Haha, don't forget to let me know when the time comes. I'm a Teng X network with more than 30 million registered members, and this time he even wants to fix my Teng X network, hum!" Ma Huateng snorted twice with his nose.

"By the way, Ma Dong, I still have something I want to cooperate with you. Lin Feng suddenly had an idea in his mind.

"Oh, let's listen to it!" Ma Huateng was deeply impressed by Lin Feng's series of actions, and secretly guessed what kind of idea Lin Feng had this time and how much profit it would bring to Teng X.com.

PS: Two shifts today. Xiexie support!