What's more, what happened two years ago really made Zhu Zi have a bad impression of their entire Sony. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Sony is not good at using any particularly tough means to deal with Zhu Zi, if he really does this, that eldest lady will directly bring Sony down.

Kitagawa Kenji can't say it's bitter.

"This matter is really difficult to deal with, Zhu Zisang should be a person who eats soft rather than hard. But we Sony don't seem to have any way to satisfy Zhu Zisan. Kitagawa Kenji frowned.

Akimoto thought for a while, is it really, Zhu Zi is standing but what do you want, do you have connections? Money has? There is also a confidante like Masami Nagasawa by his side.

And his own influence in the entertainment industry is not small, and then it is really not easy for such a person with almost no shortcomings to reconcile with them.

"Mr. Akimoto, don't you have anything you can do?"

Akimoto Yasushi shook his head: "To be honest, I really can't do anything, this matter still needs to be bothered by Kitagawa San and Sony." ”

"Well, this time it really bothered."

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On March 1, 1968, Sony acquired a stake in Columbia Records, which was reorganized into CBS/Sony Records. In January 1988, under the leadership of Sony Chairman Akio Morita, Sony successively acquired the film and music division of CBS, making CBS/Sony 100% Sony's music division and renamed SonyMusic; The official full name in Chinese is "Sony Columbia Music Entertainment", referred to as "Sony Music".

Japan Sony Music Nogizaka Building

In Japan, the Sony Music Group is independent of the global Sony Music System, while Boardman Music Japan was initially directly under the global Sony Boardman Group. On August 5, 2008, Sony announced the acquisition of another 50% stake in Sony Boardman, which took effect on October 1, 2008, and Sony Boardman became a 100% subsidiary of Sony in the United States, and changed its name back to "Sony Music Entertainment"; Boardman Music is owned and managed by Sony Music Group.

As the world's second largest music company, Sony Music and Sony Corporation of Japan have a large number of world-famous artists.

Including Ken Hirai, Hikaru Utada, Koji Tamaki and other artists are all artists under Sony. Over the years, however, Sony has been embroiled in a number of controversial incidents, most notably in 2006.

On July 13, 2006, the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg overturned the EU's approval of the merger of Sony Music and Bertelsmann in 2004, putting Sony Bertelsmann, the world's second-largest record label, in danger of being broken up. In this historic decision, the Court of First Instance of the European Union stated that the European Commission, which approved the merger at the time, had only made a very hasty examination of the consequences of the merger and that the Commission had not provided sufficient evidence to prove legally that "there was no dominant market position between the two before the merger and that there was no such possibility after the merger".

The CJEU decision means that Sony Music and Bertelsmann will resubmit their merger plans to the EU. The European Commission will re-examine the merger of Sony Music of Japan and BMG of Germany.

In October 2005, Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals revealed that SonyBMG sold music CDs that used a technique called rootkit hacking to install digital rights management software (DRM) into users' computers without knowing the user. The software is developed by the British company First4Internet and is called Extended CopyProtection (XCP) software, which is difficult for ordinary users to detect and remove.

In many countries, it is illegal to install software without informing the user and it causes serious security hazards to the user's system and affects the performance of the user's system.

Sony Bertelsmann's original removal software installed another program called dial - home after removing the rootkit. This creates another, bigger security hazard and makes Sony-Bertelsmann even more controversial. Eventually, Sony Bertelsmann provided a real removal software and recycled and exchanged music CDs containing XCP. At the same time, Sony Bertelsmann has also faced several related legal proceedings.

In November 2006, SonyBMG settled with courts in various states in the United States, admitting that anti-piracy technology had been installed on music CDs, and would pay $4.25 million a year to 39 state governments as a settlement, as well as $175 in compensation for each consumer who was damaged by listening to the company's CDs on his computer.

After Kitagawa Kenji returned, he immediately reported the incident to his father, Kitagawa Naoki.

Kitagawa Naoki was also a little difficult to see Zhu Zi's attitude.

Everyone is a little ghost, but Zhu Zi, the king of Hades, is also so difficult, and they didn't expect it.

"Let's hold a board meeting, we'll have to settle this matter." Naoki Kitagawa said lightly.

Soon after, at Sony Entertainment's headquarters, many senior executives of Sony Entertainment companies, including Kenji Kitagawa and Naoki Kitagawa, gathered in the conference room.

Although Sony is a big business, the relationship between various departments is very bad, and it is basically impossible to get them to coordinate their work.

"This time, when Kenji went to coordinate and cooperate with Mr. Zhu Zi, he failed." After everyone arrived, Naoki Kitagawa informed everyone of today's situation.

"That means that Mr. Zhu Zi doesn't want to cooperate with us directly?" A bloated middle-aged man sitting on Naoki Kitagawa's left hand asked.

"Yes, Mr. Zhu Zi is still angry about the fact that we terminated the contract with AKB48 alone two years ago. So when he heard that we wanted to work with him again, he simply refused. Kenji Kitagawa, who sat at the back, said.

The expressions on the faces of all the high-level executives present were not good-looking, after all, it was the first time that Sony, as a giant in the Japanese music scene, had been ignored like this.

"Can you bypass him and cooperate directly with Yasushi Akimoto and AKS?" A young administrator asked.

"It's impossible, and don't forget that he's a very good lawyer." Kenji Kitagawa said.