Chapter 1383: The MP3 Market Exploded
Here, the preparations for the Romance of the Three Kingdoms are in full swing, and on the other side, Boss Jia's lawsuit has officially begun.
In the Florida courthouse, the trial of the Industrial Record Association of the United States against Daqian Group officially began.
Because this indictment has attracted enough attention before, most of the media in the United States have focused on the court, but before the trial began, most of the smart media have already guessed that Daqian will definitely win.
First of all, the plaintiff group, the previous vigorous plaintiff group, until now, only the two companies of the United States Industrial Products Association and Rolling Stone Records are still gritting their teeth to sue.
As a result, the strength of the prosecution is reduced by about two-thirds, and it is difficult to compete with the current Daqian.
And the most critical point is to look at the lawyer team put forward by both sides.
There are a total of 5 lawyers in the lawyer's letter of the Record Industry Association of the United States, which seems to be quite a lot, and one of them is a well-known lawyer in the country, which seems to be very good.
But on the other hand, when Daqian's lawyer group appeared on the stage, it was completely incomparable, Daqian's lawyer group was as many as 32 people, and the fame of each lawyer was not inferior to the famous lawyer in the country opposite.
Behind these 32 lawyers are 24 well-known law firms in the United States, and among the top 30 law firms in the country, these 24 occupy 20, and the top 10 law firms are among them.
"Even if the plaintiff is the commander of the United States, this case will definitely be lost!" Many reporters lamented this.
As for the plot of a lawyer defeating 32 industry leaders, it only exists in TV dramas and in it, and it does not exist in reality, unless the criminal commits a crime in live TV.
The situation becomes even more evident when the trial begins and the lawyers on both sides present evidence and argue.
First of all, the plaintiff presented evidence, although it can be seen that the plaintiff's lawyer has tried his best to collect evidence, and has come up with the fact that more than 230 Daqian MP3 users downloaded pirated songs to prove the guilt of Daqian MP3.
As a result, Daqian's lawyer backhanded out more than 3,000 cases of users using piracy times or CDs to listen to songs, and then questioned the MI Industrial Record Association whether they were responsible for these piracy incidents.
They are the same as Daqian, are they all producers of these pirated carriers?
Moreover, the producers of pirated records or cassette tapes are genuine members of industrial associations!
With such a rhetorical question, the Industrial Recording Association was forced to be speechless.
Next, Daqian's lawyer came up with a lot of Daqian MP3 to deal with anti-piracy, first of all, all the outer packaging instructions of all the boxes say that it is forbidden to download pirated songs.
Then MP3's own driver,It's also built in the official download channel,At the same time, under normal circumstances, it is impossible to directly drag pirated songs into MP3。
Of course, if someone changes the driver's file slightly, this restriction will be broken, but this is done by hackers, and Daqian has nothing to do with it, Daqian is really anti-piracy!
Anyway, Daqian really has the intention to prevent piracy, but some things can't be prevented at all, and Daqian has no choice.
A few days later, the court pronounced a verdict in court, the United States Industrial Record Association lost the lawsuit, and all their claims were rejected, Daqian Group and Daqian MP3 were not guilty and could be sold in the market normally.
As soon as the verdict was announced, in the following week, Daqian MP3 sold more than 5 million units around the world.
There is no way, because of this case, because of the vigorous publicity of the media, almost all TV viewers around the world know about this big case, and by the way, they also know that MP3 is such a black technology product.
And the price is not expensive, the cheapest is only 99 US dollars, it is too conscientious, not to buy it is not human!
In fact, after the review of many media, if there is no such an indictment as publicity, the sales of Daqian MP3 may only be less than 1/3 of the current 60 million sales, this case did not harm Daqian MP3 at all, but helped Daqian MP3 to rush a lot, it is simply a divine assist!
In fact, the same is true in history.
When the MP3 was first introduced to the market in 1999, it didn't sell very well, selling less than 3 million units in half a year.
But with the lawsuit of the Industrial Recording Association of the United States, and then the crazy media reports, and after the court verdict came out, MP3 sales have risen to about 40 million units, more than 10 times, which is even more exaggerated than the world's big thousand.
However, the good days of Daqian MP3 are almost over, because the technical content in MP3 is not too high, and many companies have technical reserves, but they didn't think of making such a thing.
So just over 4 months after the MP3 went on sale, at least 30 companies around the world announced that their MP3 would be launched to the market at the same time.
In the whole 1998, there are thousands of MP3 brands around the world, many MP3 have a variety of magical functions, the market of Daqian MP3 has been seriously encroached upon, and Sony's MP3 finally succeeded in surpassing the market share of Daqian MP3.
This makes people have to sigh at Sony's amazing technical strength in music electronics.
However, at the end of the trial, Daqian joined hands with major music companies around the world to announce that the light and shadow supermarket network platform was officially launched online, and players could directly buy genuine MP3 songs for download through the Internet, while Daqian only charged about 50-30% of the platform fee.
Later, almost all MP3s, as long as they are produced by regular enterprises, must be pre-installed with a link to this website, otherwise Guangying Supermarket will directly sue the other party for supporting piracy.
With the help of a huge team of lawyers, many MP3 companies that do not believe in evil and want to engage in their own genuine platforms have been found guilty, and the compensation alone has tens of millions of dollars, so that in addition to the MP3 of the three no enterprises, no MP3 company on the right track will not pre-install the light and shadow platform.
And on the other hand, Daqian did not suffer a loss, because for an MP3, the biggest cost is actually the internal memory chip, and Daqian's TF card, because of his powerful storage capacity, as well as the price of other storage devices, directly occupied the entire MP3 storage device market.
No matter which MP3 company, even Sony, in the end has to buy a TF card as an MP3 storage device.
Because for Sony, the cost of making a 100mb memory card by itself can buy two 100mb Daqian TF cards, and the absolute price gap is there, so that any company can only buy Daqian TF cards.
In fact, not only the MP3 market, but also the TF card is about to occupy almost all the secondary storage device market in the world.
The so-called secondary market is a market other than devices that require extremely high read speeds for storage devices, such as memory modules.
In more than a year after the TF card was released, 98% of the world's secondary storage equipment manufacturers either went out of business directly or announced their abandonment of the storage business.
And even the world's top memory equipment manufacturers are nervous, because they heard that the second generation TF card will be launched soon, and the storage speed of this TF is almost close to the read speed of the memory module.
Daqian wants to directly produce DR cards, which are cards that have never been heard of, but it is said that the reading speed of this card exceeds the reading speed of all storage devices in the world that can be industrialized and mass-produced.
It's terrifying, these storage equipment manufacturers, have seen a terrifying whale, whale swallowing the market, and they can't do anything about it.
These manufacturers can't dream of how Huaxia, which was still supplied with raw materials and located at the bottom of the entire industrial chain a few years ago, mastered the world's most advanced memory chip technology in just a few years.
And they don't understand this kind of chip at all, there are many companies that have disassembled these chips and studied them repeatedly, but they can't figure out why, just a general feeling, it may be related to a certain material, but it is not clear whether it is dead or alive, what this material is.