Well, although Roland Allen keeps saying that Michael Jackson's shareholding in Sony/ATV and the resulting battle have made the Sony Music industry unattractive, if you jump out of the field of music, from the perspective of the industrial structure owned by Roland Allen, the value of Sony Music is actually greater than that of Qualcomm and Juchang, because the existence of those copyrights can create a solid moat for Roland Allen's other industries.

No way!

Who makes music the root of the rise of most Internet or technology companies?

In China, the company that makes search engines actually beats all competitors with music.

Two thousand years and two thousand and one years, Du Niang was only a service company specializing in providing search business for SOHU and SINA, and when they analyzed user behavior and found that most users were interested in music, they made a special optimization for MP3 search.

In that year alone, Du Niang's traffic surged by more than 30 percent.

If that's all there is to it, it doesn't really reflect the beauty of music.

Because Du Niang at this time is just searching.

And after tasting the sweetness, they started their own piracy and hotlinking.

In 03 years, Du Niang's MP3 service was officially launched, and when they rolled up their sleeves and did it themselves, this service brought them more than 50% traffic growth, because for consumers, this service is simply not too easy to use!

In the past, when users searched for music on Du Niang, they would jump up on websites like 'DJ Dance Music Network'.

You can also find music, but it's relatively easy to use.

But now,When users search for music on Du Niang,What pops up is Du NiangMP3 This main column,Users don't have to visit other websites as before,Filter the content you want,Just one click of the mouse,You can download the songs you want through Du Niang,And when this one-stop service appears......

Du Niang, it exploded!

Before 05 years, Google's market penetration rate was on par with Du Niang, but after 05 years, Du Niang ran to 72% with MP3 search and download services? After that, it skyrocketed? At its peak, it was as high as 85 percent.

Countless young people who have just come into contact with the Internet have boarded the free platform of Du Niang under the guidance of information technology teachers, making it a monopoly in the search engine industry in an instant? This explosive growth has made people see the value of music? And at the same time, Du Niang became in the eyes of Westerners? The world's largest pirated music website.

Because of this, the world's seven famous record companies, including Sony, Universal, Warner, and EMI, jointly sued Du Niang in order to protect their own interests? But for some complex and unspeakable reason? Du Niang has been winning lawsuits since 05 years, and it was not until 15 years that the strictest copyright order in the history of the streaming music industry was issued, and Du Niang began to pay copyright fees.

Pity? At this time? Music is no longer important to Du Niang.

Because of the monopoly position of the Du Niang search engine, it has been established in the past 12 years of piracy and hotlinking.

Of course, the success of this indulgence in piracy cannot be replicated? And the reason why Roland Allen needs Sony Music is not to drain the Google guy who can lie on Yahoo and MSN and suck blood? Rather, it is hoped that these copyrights can give Apple a blood, so that iPod and iTunes can monopolize the global portable media playback device market and digital music market.

Since the end of the twentieth century? North America and Europe have already begun to establish digital music copyright protection systems, so the relative perfection of the law has allowed the birth of a sound payment environment? And in this environment? When Roland Allen got Sony Music? Other companies that want to compete with the iPod and iTunes have to go bankrupt and die, because Roland Allen, who owns Sony Music, can license Apple only and ignore the desires of other companies.

That is to say, when the trend of genuine is prevalent, Sony Music, which is controlled by Roland Allen, only grants digital rights to Apple, and in this case, non-iPod and iTunes users cannot enjoy songs such as The Beatles, Elvis, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, etc., although this practice will make Sony Music's copyright income plummet, but it can also greatly stimulate the choice of users, when people find that in addition to Apple, other portable audio players and music software are lame guys, Then the traffic will naturally continue to converge towards Apple.

As a result, the market share of other companies will naturally decline year after year.

When the operating income of these companies cannot support the company's R&D expenses and copyright expenditures, then the two paths that appear in front of them are very clear, either they do not buy copyrights, let their products give up encryption, adapt to all pirated music, and do pirated business, or they leave the scene and declare their failure.

If it's the former, then it's over!

What Philips in the Netherlands? South Korea's Samsung? Just take the muzzle of the gun and press them into the dirt!

We can't control the imperfection of the copyright protection law, that's really no way, but where the copyright protection law is implemented, if you support piracy, then it is not as simple as letting you cut your flesh and let you bleed, but directly send you to hell!

If it's the latter, it's even simpler!

Surrender without a fight!

With the death of these companies one after another, the tens of billions of markets attributed to portable audio playback devices and digital music can be easily won by Apple, forming an industry monopoly in the de facto sense.

And what does Roland Allen need to pay in order to capture such a market?

It's nothing more than 1 billion to buy Sony Music, and then spend 2 to 4 billion to make it the world's No. 1 in the future!

At least 3 billion, at most 5 billion, you can exchange for the monopoly of two industries!

Isn't it cost-effective to use billions of investments to build an impregnable moat for Apple?

As for whether other companies will be able to follow suit?

That's no kidding.

Who is Warner Music for?

Harry Potter and DC superhero movies won't be filmed?

Who is Universal Music for?

Can X-Men do it?

Not to mention whether Philips and Samsung, portable audio equipment manufacturers can buy these music companies from Time Warner and Vivendi, that is, they are exclusively licensed, and they are impossible to buy!

Joke!

Is it true that he is a courtesan for nothing?

In this way, even if Roland Allen thinks that Sony Music with Michael Jackson is a negative asset, then he can actually tolerate it, it is indeed not cost-effective to invest in music, but the platform monopoly is really fragrant!

The point is that even if MP3 and MP4 will eventually be eliminated by history, the monopoly brought by the king of content can still continue to iOS and Android, and in the case that the voting rights of his shares cannot exceed 67%, not choking the necks of these giants with content has become the only way to control the company?

And the resistance he is showing now?

Isn't it just to get more wool from the giants!

If he doesn't speak, where does ATi come from?

If ATi doesn't develop, how can Nvidia have a financial crisis?

If Nvidia doesn't have a financial crisis, how can he buy the bottom?

"Then these things are decided first?" Roland asked.

When everyone reached a consensus, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly relaxed a lot.

"Of course, the next thing is to be patient." Bill Gates nodded, a bright future on his cheeks.

"When are you going to do it?" Michael Dale was a little impatient because Compaq was killed by them.

"It's hard to say." Warren Buffett shrugged.

At the same time, Steven Spielberg also responded, "yes, time is not good.

In '79, the Soviet Union also sent troops to attack Afghanistan, at first they wanted to use a month to eliminate those guys, but as everyone knows, the war lasted for ten years and ended in the defeat of the Soviet Union.

The 10-year war caused the Soviet Union to have a cumulative number of casualties of more than 50,000 and cost 45 billion rubles, which directly changed their global strategy and led to the great disintegration of 91 years.

In this case, if we don't take Afghanistan within a month, there is a high probability that we will follow the old path of the Soviet Union, so in addition to not being able to do it within a month after sending troops, in the rest of the time, as long as there is a stalemate in the situation, then we can manipulate public opinion to start throwing the blame, and slaughtering Sony's supplementary military spending can not only release pressure, but also alleviate the financial problem. ”

Roland loves to listen to this kind of impersonal words, but after the old man finished expressing his opinion, he actually had another curiosity in his heart, "Steven? Don't you think we can't take Afghanistan? ”

However, as soon as these words came out, the scene was full of laughter.

Steve Jobs spoke: "Roland. ”

"What's wrong?"

"You just have to do the math of the economy."

"Economic accounts?"

"That's right! Economic account. Steve Jobs nodded and said, "What is there in Afghanistan?" What do we have?

We go to Afghanistan and shoot a 10,000-dollar rocket at them, what can we blow up?

Is it a fifty-dollar tent, or a cave dug out with a ten-dollar shovel?

If we shoot a 100,000-dollar guided missile at them, what can we knock out?

Is it a 10,000-dollar building, or a 20,000-dollar armory?

We did pay five cents a bullet, but when we shipped them to Afghanistan, the price of each bullet tripled!

We transport a tank back, and if there is a situation that needs to be returned to the factory for maintenance, it is better to scrap it on the spot!

Because it's cheaper to make a new one!

And in this case, how to fight this battle?

I can't fight at all!

Although we have the ability to level Afghanistan, who in the countries surrounding Afghanistan will watch our soldiers carry out their plans for slaughter? Or, who do you think will watch us plow them into scorched earth with Minuteman 3?

No one can sit still!

If you do this, you can't help it!

The outcome of modern warfare is not at all whether we can destroy anyone, but whether we can gain anything from the enemy.

We will not gain any real benefit from attacking Afghanistan, so ......

Then someone has to take the blame for this war!

And from the current point of view, Sony will definitely not be able to escape! ”

Oops hey!

Roland really wanted to give Steve Jobs a round of applause.

No way, who makes this economic perspective very powerful?

The reason why the war in Afghanistan left the United States in a mess and finally had to leave in disgrace is not because the return is not worth the effort? When senior U.S. military commanders don't know the specific banner of the terrorist organization, U.S. military garrison interpreters can't understand the Afghan tribal language, and U.S. contractors don't know what projects they have in Afghanistan......

Isn't failure an obvious thing?

Not to mention, the bear above has been staring at it!

Therefore, this may be the reason why the king did not declare war for four years!

Because, only when you are a house, do you know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive!

As a guy who has to pick and ask for tickets for half a day when donating, that's the person who knows more about war than sleepy!

It's a pity that this accordion master can't continue to talk to the world for four years......

Ay......

And when everything was finalized, the five people who came to visit also got up and took their leave.

At first, Roland didn't know why these guys came and went in a hurry, but after Bill Gates told him that Microsoft would release a new system Windows XP on October 25, and he had to go back to keep an eye on the project, Roland was relieved, as the most successful system in the history of Windows, its existence is indeed more important than the game console market.

And when Steve Jobs told him that the iPod launch would be held on October 23, and he had to rush back to stare at the project, he pulled the other party to eat, and was immediately thrown by Roland into the Mariana Trench.

No way, who made the iPod the product that could change Apple's life?

Just like that Apple M1 chip twenty years later.

For Intel, this kind of cross-border breakthrough is really a young man who doesn't talk about martial arts, and the rat tail juice!

"Okay then, I'll make an appointment next time I have a chance......"

"Walk slowly! Just call me if there's anything you want! ”

When Roland stood at the door and watched the eight cars speeding away, the figure that was gradually moving away made him feel a lot of emotion.

He thought it would be very difficult to break up Sony, but now......

The capital that is eager for profit gathers up by itself!

He had thought that splitting up Sony would expose him to the outside world, but now......

How can conscience be profitable?

"It's really a group of realistic people!"

"Everyone gathers for profit, everyone runs around for profit, everyone struggles for profit, everyone holds together for profit......"

"It's ruthless, but it's transparent!"

At the same time, Roland was also physically and mentally comfortable.

Since everyone is a villain, there will be no villain in this world.

However, just as Roland put his hands in his pockets and was about to walk back leisurely, as soon as he turned around, the person who was standing at the door of the house and had been looking at him made Roland's smile freeze on his face.

Because Kate's eyes were full of doubts......

And incomprehensible.