Chapter 63: Apologies are useful, but what do you need the police for?
"The Industrial and Commercial Bureau just brought a group of reporters to the scene, and Xilang.com and Microsoft Huaxia Research Institute reported our use of pirated systems and pirated flash development kits with real names!" Zhang Yiming hurriedly said what happened.
"Everyone's gone?" Chen Bo asked.
"Gone!" Zhang Yiming replied in a muffled voice.
"Are you stupid, have you forgotten what you do!" After Chen Bo finished speaking, he hung up the phone, leaving Zhang Yiming on the other end to look at the blind voice on the phone, looking confused. Yes? What's wrong with me?
Open the homepage of Xilang.com, you can see the headlines of the real-name report sky.com, and the word processing has been made bold and darkened. The current news page is not open to member comments, and if there are comments, I really don't know what to see below.
In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Bo was briefly interviewed by reporters who rushed to hear the news in the lobby of the hotel, and he now almost feels like a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and he is being picked up every day. I really miss Weibo, you can solve the problem with your fingers, and you can also fight with the big guys in the air, and now the media are all microphones.
When Sky.com was officially established, Chen Bo and Mo Fei had a debate about whether to use a pirated or genuine system. In the end, I chose to use a genuine system with a higher price. On the one hand, the reason for this is to be able to deduct taxes, and on the other hand, it is not good for the company to make genuine music itself, but it uses pirated software. Moreover, the bulk procurement of the enterprise version of the system is still much cheaper, which is why Chen Bo said that Zhang Yiming is stupid, he is a technical officer but he does not know that all the systems and software in the company are genuine systems.
So no matter which industrial and commercial bureau he comes, he can only return in vain, Xilangwang is now a suckling pig roasted on the fire, and the power of life and death is held by others.
Chen Bo said calmly, "Some people are thieves who don't die. If you are a thief yourself, you still have to suspect others of being thieves. Skynet has always been a supporter of genuine software, and has never used pirated software, whether it is genuine software or genuine music, Skynet is implementing this standard. ”
In the report the next day, the dean of Microsoft Huaxia Research Institute took the lead in saying that we would not carry this pot, and directly dissociated ourselves from the relationship with Xilang.com. Xilang.com reported in real name and invited Microsoft Huaxia Research Institute and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to go to Sky.com for technical appraisal, and did not report any company. Moreover, the institute only does technology development and research, and copyright protection is supposed to be the responsibility of the US headquarters, and there is no Microsoft branch in China.
The consequences of these two slaps are obvious, and the image of Skynet is taller. Pirated music you can say that it is uploaded by users, and it can be said that it is for the convenience of all netizens. But what about your real-name report on Sky.com's use of pirated software? This is to break your teeth and swallow it in your stomach.
At the same time, Chen Bo brought all the evidence to formally sue Xilang.com for slander and slander against Sky.com, which was accepted by the court and immediately issued an investigation order. The news that Wang Zidong, CEO of Xilang.com, and a senior operator were taken away for investigation spread quickly in China. Not only the Internet industry, but also the entire domestic media circle has begun to boil.
The special issue of the network weekly finally came out, and the deputy editor-in-chief Liu Ren wrote an interview with Chen Bo, which objectively followed the ins and outs of the whole thing, and even excavated Chen Bo's Pangu Technology and its Sky Network and Dingdong Network, and also disclosed the detailed plan for the completion of the A round of financing of Sky Network, according to the valuation of 60 million US dollars, Chen Bo has a net worth of more than 20 million US dollars, and at the same time holds 15% of the equity of Tencent QQ.
This pushed the whole incident to the climax, many people no longer pay attention to who won and lost in this matter, but more concerned about a 20-year-old young man who became a billionaire in a few months, Chen Bo's limelight can be said to be unmatched.
But that's not the point, on the far west coast of the Atlantic, the dark clouds of Wall Street's downturn have not dissipated, and with the news that the CEO of Xilang.com has been officially investigated as a corporate legal person, the already dismal Nasdaq Internet concept stocks fell in response, falling 8.5% on the day.
The Wall Street Journal also published an interview with a young CEO from the East, and also gave him the title of copyright guard, although it was not accompanied by a photo. However, from the perspective of Westerners' inherent view that China is a barren country, Chen Bo is undoubtedly in line with Western values.
Wall Street investors and stockholders naturally have little affection for such blatant infringing companies, and the current mess of Internet concept stocks has further determined the sell-off frenzy. Wait any longer, and it will become a pile of waste paper.
The first three major portals to be listed were abandoned by investors, and tens of millions of dollars in market value were issued out of thin air. The news came from the United States, and the three major Internet networks were gloomy, and the most worrying was of course Cao Guowei, the modern executive officer of Xilang.com.
The CEO and senior operations were taken away for investigation, and whether or not Wang Zidong personally issued the order, he needs to be held legally responsible as a legal person. Moreover, this kind of defamation and defamation case is a private prosecution case, and it will not be prosecuted. But the same is a violation of the criminal law, as long as the other party holds on and does not let go, this is a fact with conclusive evidence, and once the sentence is pronounced, he will face imprisonment of less than 3 years.
This is an absolutely devastating blow to Xilang.com, and it must be solved as soon as possible.
Before coming to Xilang.com, Cao Guowei worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he participated in the listing of many technology companies on the NASDAQ as a senior manager. After coming to Xilang, he served as the vice president and successfully operated Xilang.com on the NASDAQ, although it was a bloody listing.
This is the first time that Chen Bo has faced the executives of the three major portals, and the two of them have met for the first time, and they look at each other. Today's executives and entrepreneurs of Internet companies are basically around 30 years old, and most of them have studied or worked abroad, and belong to elite intellectuals.
There is really no outrageous young man like Chen Bo, compared to those turtle foreign guns, he belongs to the kind of domestic earth artillery. But he didn't rely on portals, didn't do news, didn't do forums, and mailboxes, but made a headline on a music website.
Cao Guowei gives people the feeling of being calm and calm. This is probably also because he has been engaged in financial work for many years and has a keen sense of the market. Xilang.com has always been ranked at the end of the three major portals, and the biggest flaw is that the equity is too dispersed. Even the founder Wang Zidong, who has now resigned and is awaiting prosecution, only has about 7% of the shares, and has no say in front of a group of investors.
Even if there is no today's copyright incident, Wang Zidong will be swept away by the capital market, which is a matter of time or time. But in the end, Cao Guowei had the last laugh, successfully took charge of Xilang, and launched blockbuster products such as blogs and microblogs, which gave Xilang.com a second spring.
"I'm very sorry, Mr. Chen. I didn't expect to meet you in such an environment, and I sincerely apologize for what Xilang.com has done. Cao Guowei's speed of speech is neither fast nor slow, and people can't even feel the emotional color in it.
"An apology is useful, why do you need the police?" Chen Bo stared at Cao Guowei's eyes, hoping to find a trace of ripple in them, but he failed. "You have to give what you want!" Chen Bo's words revealed a sense of arrogance, the initiative was in his hands, and he couldn't help others.
"Xilang.com is willing to financially compensate Sky.com for its reputation and economic losses, and has shut down the music site." Xilang.com has taken the lead in admitting it.
"Why shut down?" Chen Bo smiled playfully.
Cao Guowei frowned, he didn't understand what kind of medicine was being sold in the gourd of the young man sitting opposite, was it sarcasm? Or is it something else?
"I have no intention of shutting down any music sites." Chen Bo said slowly.
"Oh?" This time, Cao Guowei couldn't figure it out, didn't you jump up and down for so long just to monopolize the music copyright.
"The music market is huge, and the future of Internet music will be even broader. Online media will become the preferred medium for users to listen to songs, although the cake is good, but it is not something that can be eaten by a sky network. Only by opening up and sharing can we go further and make the whole market bigger. A half-dead West Wave doesn't mean anything to me, money? How much can the West Wave give? ”
"You don't want money?"
"Everyone wants money, but some money is hot. Sky.com can reach a settlement with Xilang, or withdraw the lawsuit, or provide genuine music authorization for Xilang.com. These are not problems, but Xilang.com should use the web interface of the beautiful music player to play, Sky.com will open the interface of the music library, and Xilang.com will share the search technology on the site. ”
Chen Bo made his own conditions, and it depends on the attitude of the other party.
"You're using the West Waves to drain the Sky Net!" Cao Guowei pointed to the crux of the matter.
That's right, it's indeed drainage, why don't you bother with that effort? No matter how much money is given, it will not be spent, and more importantly, it is necessary to use Xilang's technology to supplement the shortcomings of Sky Network, and the search engine on the site is also what Chen Bo desperately wants to get, Zhang Yiming's network technology is fine, but it does not mean that he is proficient in everything. The future positioning of Sky.com is not only to be a simple music audition website and a publicity and distribution channel for record companies, but also to be a Chinese music database.
Xilang.com's on-site search engine is the weakest of the three major portals,Much worse than Suhu and NetE,This is still a part of its own research and development on the basis of cooperation with Baidu.,It's like a chicken rib for Xilang.com,Moreover, there is Yahoo search in China,The problem of open technology sharing is not big。
Being able to reach a settlement undoubtedly outweighs the disadvantages, Xilang can no longer withstand a bigger toss, and the stock price that has evaporated for days is enough to torment people's nerves. Damn investors only know how to use their voting rights to force management, and sooner or later they will be swept away.
Cao Guowei could only choose to agree to such a dilemma, and this plan was enough to explain to the board of directors and shareholders.