Chapter 112 How Chinese Piracy Is Made
Chinese piracy is not something that can be achieved overnight.
The date of birth of this pirate comrade is unknown, and in the era of China's material poverty, his consciousness is still in the age of chaos, and at the same time, due to the national conditions of socialism, everything is owned by the state, and the people have no concept of intellectual property rights at all.
In 1983, a Japanese invention of a game console changed the fate of piracy comrades, this game console called SG-1000, that is, Sega's first 8-bit home game console, using NEC's Z80 chip, memory 2K.
This game console has been favored by many large manufacturers, and a variety of compatible machines have been launched, which have been quickly promoted to all shijie.
Taiwan introduced it for the first time, remodeled it, reprocessed it, named Alos, using Sega cassette, which can be compatible with American Atari game cards, of course, these are genuine and expensive.
However, the researchers of Alos think about how to cheat all day long, other people's children wear genuine clothes, Alos can't, he must wear a piece of clothing in N ways, and he must buy a bunch of clothes for $10.
So Taiwanese researchers cracked Atari's original cassette and made a composite card, triumphant.
The Chinese pirate comrades looked at the red-eyed, quick-witted coastal masses who learned from the Taiwanese to do it, and soon learned to crack the jishu of the Atari cassette, and sighed and opened their eyes.
However, Alor couldn't beat FC, which accounted for 95% of the market, and Atari went bankrupt, so these people turned their attention to FC.
Taiwan Crystal Technology Group is one of the leaders. Soon cracked the core module of FC, and launched its own game console Little Genius FC compatible machine Micro-Genius. Occupying a place that Nintendo can't look down on around the world, life is quite nourishing.
Immediately afterwards, Hong Kong Weigang Company launched Zhizhibao. Taiwan's Shengtian Company launched Shengtian 9000, a famous smuggling concentration stone master in Southeast Province, quickly became the first place in Chinese mainland to contact these Taiwanese video game consoles, the provincial capital Fuzhou City became China's largest game console and game card distribution center, and the little genius's compatible machine assembly plant is also set up here, a thriving scene.
In this big dye vat, the profit-hungry businessmen frantically transformed and burned the game, and the price of an original cassette was two or three hundred yuan, and the cost of burning it by themselves was only sixty or seventy. Such huge profits drive more and more people to join in.
Gradually, in Shishi Town, there are more and more small factories and workshops that crack the cassette, and when Jishu spreads uncontrollably, there is no entry threshold for cracking the genuine cassette industry.
Read, burn, solder, encapsulation. The whole set of equipment only needs 2,000 yuan, and it also comes with a full set of jishu strategies, with blank chips provided by Taiwan and shells provided by local plastic factory stampers. Hundreds of small workshops appeared in the town at once.
And once the piracy industry is formed, the profits are getting thinner and thinner, and all piracy manufacturers are desperately trying to reduce costs. Instead of making original games, there are occasional slight changes. It's actually a copycat.
At the same time, from the city of Tsu in the north. In the southern part of Guandong City, a group of people also saw the business opportunities here.
The big overlord company in the south entered this line under the leadership of Zhao Yongping, and finally made a fuss, and the entire company was acquired by Yang Yun.
Under the leadership of Tian Haoqiang, the new star company in the north has slowed down a little for half a year, and many famous senior technicians in the underground black market have been brought to Tianjin City for reorganization, integrating and integrating the best pirated cracking jishu in the country, regardless of the north and south jishu, as long as it can be cracked, it is a good jishu.
As a result, China's piracy industry has become a large group army led by the national character, Jinshi, Shanghu, and Guandong, and there are countless small guerrilla workshops that have not been incorporated into it.
It's just that large enterprises are more or less stable than small workshops, and there is no habit of changing places with one shot.
In the autumn of 1989, the Canton Fair, a delegation of Japanese lawyers sued Dabawang in Shigeman City for infringement, and the final result was that Dabawang Company was killed by the state, the main responsible person was sentenced, the company went bankrupt, and all orders were transferred to the name of another Chiyang Electronics Factory, which shocked the whole Chinese game console industry.
Xinxing Electronics Factory did not dare to act rashly, they were waiting for the news that Chiyang Electronics Factory and Longteng Company were forced to close or warn.
It's a pity that it didn't wait, until the end of the year, there was no news from the country at all, and Chiyang Electronics Factory became a star state-owned enterprise, and Longteng Entertainment Game Company frequently appeared in the newspapers.
Making pirated learning machines and game cards, with low costs and amazing profits, made Xinxing Electronics Factory decide to take a risk.
Tian Haoqiang couldn't hold it back, just after the New Year, he began to organize people to crack the Longteng game card and learning card, and at the same time produced pirated FC consoles non-stop.
Liao Guoqing heard the news that Xinxing Electronics Factory cracked the FC version of Longteng's four-in-one cassette, which is the product at the Autumn Canton Fair, and at the same time, they also cracked a number of Nintendo's games, and finally made a 64-in-1 Xinxing game card, the content is extremely luxurious and rich, but it was not placed at the exhibition.
Xinxing Electronics Factory is the first time to participate in the Canton Fair, may have its own concerns, when introducing to customers, on the surface, they are talking with learning machines and learning cards, but they will introduce game cards privately, bring them to the conference room and then take them out.
Yang Yun smiled: "It's really embarrassing for them, is this playing with the underground organization joint?" If you still trade privately, you are not afraid of the punishment of the organizing committee? Director Zhu, how do you think this matter should be handled? ”
Zhu Shuguang frowned, he was a leading official, and it was not suitable to take sides.
Moreover, the Beijing and Tianjin cities are too close to each other, the two cities have close contacts, the relationship is quite good, and they all know each other well, Zhu Shuguang has also heard of the calf protection habits of the officials of Tianjin City, if the Beijing delegation really tears its face and pursues responsibility in the past, I am afraid that this troublesome lawsuit will not be concluded, and it will only make foreign businessmen see jokes.
Zhu Shuguang shook his head: "If it only involves domestic enterprise disputes, I'm afraid that the officials of the Planning Commission will not draw conclusions so easily." In Dafang Xiangshang, the subjective will of everyone is haode, and Xinxing and Longteng are all to earn foreign exchange for the country, so the fight to zuihou, unless it is to the point of breaking the net, it is likely that there will be no result. ”
Everyone was speechless, and the trouble was so bad that the net was broken, that is, they couldn't grab the other party's order, and they also made the other party unable to do business.
This kind of thing will never be done by Longteng.
In order to get the support of the state, Yang Yun has been careful to maintain his tall image, how can he fight in public for such a trivial matter and affect the country's foreign exchange earnings?
Yang Yun smiled: "Forget it, let them go, we won't fight." Director Zhu, if they have internal problems, can they still transfer all the orders under their names to our Longteng side like Xiangshang? ”
Zhu Shuguang smiled dumbly: "Do you still think that this new star will be the same as the big overlord?" ”
Yang Yun smiled and did not answer again.
Although it won't make trouble to the point where the fish die and the net is broken, it can't make the life of Xinxing Electronics Factory any better! Nova pirates his own dragon learning card, isn't this digging meat from himself?
You can't just ignore it and sit idly by!
Yang Yun thought quickly, seeing how to make the other party suffer a big loss.
At this time, a correspondent came panting and said in front of everyone: "Director Liu informs that the person in charge of Longteng Company and Chiyang Electronics Factory is invited to have a meeting!" ”
It's almost closed, what's going on?
Yang Yun and Liao Guoqing came to the conference room, and as soon as they entered the door, there were quite a lot of people, seven or eight of them were seated, except for Tian Haoqiang, who I met in the morning, there were a few other people who looked familiar, but they couldn't call the unit and name.
"This is Li Shengli from Guandong, the fat one over there is Huang Fei from Shanghai, and the others are from peer electronics factories all over the country."
The two looked for a place to sit down, and Liao Guoqing whispered in Yang Yun's ear: "I walked around in the morning, and there were learning machines and game cards everywhere, from Guangdong Province, from Shanghai, from Shandong Province, from many provinces, some with signed orders, some without, and the booth of the Xinxing Electronics Factory was the most lively." ”
Yang Yun sneered and said, "Last year, we saw that we made foreign exchange through exports, and everyone was red-eyed......
At this time, when everyone was gathered, there must be a problem, Yang Yun sat up straight, and he was not afraid of the charm at all.
After a while, Zhu Shuguang also came in, he was at the level of deputy minister, and he was the biggest official present, and even Director Liu of the Industrial Department of the State Planning Commission respectfully stood up to greet him, but Zhu Shuguang waved his hand, signaling that he was just here to observe, and found a corner to sit down.
On this little effort, I asked the people next to me to know that this time it was really a big trouble, and the Japanese Embassy in China sent a commissioner, with a team of lawyers to Yangcheng, and directly found Director Liu to send relevant information, requiring a thorough investigation of all learning console game console companies in the venue, and all infringing Nintendo products were removed from the shelves and not exported.
After the representatives of a Shenzhen company in Zuihou hurried over, the meeting began.
Director Liu read out the statement of the Japanese side, saying: "You are all manufacturers of learning machines and game consoles for export at this exhibition, in order to prevent unnecessary trouble, each of you must truthfully explain whether your related products are independent intellectual property rights, or unauthorized infringing products, and must not be concealed." After sorting out, the organizing committee will come up with a plan to deal with everyone's problems thoroughly and properly. ”
Wow......
There was an uproar, and there was a lot of discussion below.
In these years, where is there a learning machine with independent intellectual property rights in China? As far as the eye can see, they are all copycats, and they are all pirated! (To be continued......)