Chapter 1361 Joint Plaintiffs' Group
Nobuyuki Idei didn't expect that other music record companies would take the initiative to invite him to sue Daqian together, which is a good thing for Nobuyuki Idei.
After understanding, Nobuyuki Izui learned that the original people of Rolling Stone Records found that someone in Wanwan actually downloaded the pirated MP3 file of Rolling Stone Music directly on the Internet, and then copied it into MP3, and then he could directly hear the music of Rolling Stone Records, and he didn't spend a penny from beginning to end, and he didn't even go out of the house, just clicked the mouse on the computer.
This made Rolling Stone Records aware of the crisis for the first time.
To say that Wanwan people are well-known for their careful eyes, the average enterprise will probably pass when they see such a situation.
But Rolling Stone Records is different, they seem to have seen that in the future, netizens all over the world can download pirated music files through computers, so won't the entire market for Rolling Stone products collapse?
So Rolling Stone Records began to take precautions, and they called the police as soon as possible, but the Wanwan police didn't pay attention to this kind of thing at all, and at most they were arrested and locked up for a few days.
However, fart is useless, after all, it is impossible for Rolling Stone Records to stare at all people, and whether all the songs in MP3 are genuine, if you start from the user side, it is really impossible to do it in a lifetime.
And then Rolling Stone thought to me, you sue every user, but can't I sue the companies that make MP3s?
It's this damn company that makes MP3s that leads to the whole piracy and hurts their profits, and they can demand that this company stop producing this thing, and at the same time pay a huge amount of compensation for their own financial losses.
Especially when Rolling Stone Records learned that this company was actually from a mainland company that has always been poor and backward, and even poor relatives are not counted, an inexplicable sour feeling came out.
However, Rolling Stone Records also knows that Daqian's size is too large, and it is very difficult for a small company like itself to win the lawsuit, and the only way is to unite other forces.
So Rolling Stone Records began to collect all kinds of evidence overnight, and at the same time persuaded Universal Music, Sony Music and other large music companies around the world to issue a joint lawsuit, and finally a total of 5 large music groups, 23 small and medium-sized music companies, jointly established a huge 28 group, and launched a joint lawsuit against Daqian Electronics.
When these music companies were united, the Recording Industry Association of the United States actually took the initiative to come to the door and proposed that they take the lead in prosecuting.
The reason is simple, because the Recording Industry Association of the United States is also keenly aware that their end may be coming.
Although the era of records is over, almost no one except for veteran music lovers will buy something like vinyl, and there are only three companies left in the world that can still produce records.
But the Record Industry Association of the United States is actually selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, or in their words, it is a record in a broader sense, so what tapes, CDs or something, are also counted in the category of records, and now the Recording Industry Association of the United States is actually an association composed of major tape and CD manufacturers around the world.
Some readers may wonder, before the tape eliminated the record, CD eliminated the tape, why didn't the American Industrial Recording Association come out to sue?
The reason is very simple, because whether it is a record, a tape or a CD, music needs to stay on a carrier, so the original record production companies only need to replace the equipment, and they can still carry out their old business.
But MP3 is different, MP3 doesn't need any music carrier, just need to connect to the computer, and then click a little bit, you can listen to all the music in the world.
For record companies, MP3 was not born to replace their equipment, but to dig their roots, how can you make the Record Industry Association of the United States accept this situation!
As a result, a giant group of plaintiffs led by the Industrial Record Association of the United States and a coalition of 28 music production companies around the world was formed, and a lawsuit was launched in the California Court of Appeals in the United States, accusing Daqian's MP3 of infringing the copyright of music, demanding that Daqian Music pay a huge amount of $1.28 billion in damages, and at the same time permanently stop the production of MP3.
Because of this huge prosecution group and the global popularity of Daqian MP3, as soon as this prosecution news was reported, it immediately caused a huge wave.
Almost all the media in the world began to report on this case frantically, and some media even described this case as the first infringement case in the 90s of the 20th century.
Even the domestic media in China also reported on this case in the form of thousands of columns and reports almost every day, but when Boss Jia was a little chilled, many domestic media were actually accusing Daqian, they accused Daqian of being a hotbed of piracy, an accomplice of pirates, etc., and finally accused Daqian of losing the face of the Chinese people.
This made Boss Jia's angry nose crooked, originally this huge plaintiff had not made Boss Jia angry, but these domestic media really made Boss Jia disgusted.
There is nothing to say about dealing with this kind of person, and a hearty victory must be used to prove who is righteous.
All of a sudden, everyone's eyes were on Daqian Electronics, wondering how the company, which had just changed the music industry, would face a huge backlash from almost the entire industry.
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Daqian's response is very simple, that is, to fight a lawsuit.
On the second day after the huge prosecution team issued a joint lawsuit, Dongmingzhu spoke on behalf of Daqian, saying that there is no problem with Daqian's products, Daqian itself has not infringed on the rights and interests of any enterprise or individual, Daqian has no mistakes, and there is no need to compensate anyone, Daqian MP3 will not stop selling, everything is decided by the law, not some people's mouths.
Daqian is a head-on response, and then according to some sources, Daqian's chairman Boss Jia has just returned from France, and he immediately flew to the United States, obviously to deal with this trial.
You know,This court trial is of great significance to Daqian,If the plaintiff wins,It means that Daqian will not only have to pay a huge amount of compensation,But also completely give up MP3, a huge market that has just appeared,This is Daqian's loss,That's billions of dollars,No matter how much Boss Jia attaches importance to it,That's a matter of course。
These news and speculations, circulating wildly on this media, gave a very intuitive impression to all audiences. If Daqian loses the lawsuit this time, then MP3 will become a flash in the pan and will not be sold in the market.
So the Daqian MP3 that is still scolding,Will it become a unique and unique product,Missing a moment,It's equivalent to missing a lifetime of things?
Thinking of this, many people who were not in a hurry to buy MP3 and planned to wait for the price of this thing to drop before making a move couldn't sit still.
As a result, on the third day after the prosecution, Daqian MP3 was fully opened for spot sales for the 7th time, and a total of 5 million units were sold out in three days.
In the next three months, the 8th, 9th, until the 15th, 15 spot sales, the total reached about 42 million units of Daqian MP3, which was not left, and all of them were sold, making Sony and other companies stupid.
You know, the Walkman they swept the world back then, and it took them 5 years to sell more than 100 million units in the world, and as a result, this Daqian MP3 exceeded 40 million units in three months.
Did you do yourself a disservice?