It's no secret that Americans love to party.

On this night, when the Hollywood entertainment industry bigwigs had dinner, the CEOs of many record companies chatted and couldn't help but talk about the fact that some time ago, Wujiang Group wanted to buy music copyrights.

Sam Cromwell, president of Universal Music, picked up a glass of red wine, took a sip, and said to several colleagues around him proudly: "By the way, speaking of which, a funny thing happened some time ago - Borderless Group sent someone to our Universal Music Company to negotiate online music copyrights, hehe, Borderless Group is actually whimsical, and is unwilling to pay a sky-high price to buy the copyright, but when our music is downloaded by users on the Pandora music website, we have to give the other party a 30% share!! Hahaha...... With such ridiculous conditions, how could we at Universal Music agree to them! ”

Hearing this, several executives of Warner Records, Polygram Records, and Sony Records also burst out laughing.

Kyle Johnson, president of Sony Records, said: "Wujiang Group also approached our company and proposed the same terms of cooperation, of course we are not willing!"

Download a song on the Pandora Music website for only $0.99.

And we sell a physical album for $20 to $40, which is much higher than the revenue from downloading music from the Internet!

Once we agree to cooperate with Wujiang Group, then online music is bound to hit the sales of physical albums! ”

As soon as the words fell, the peers around him couldn't help but nod their heads.

Moreover, once a cooperation is reached, the dominance will be in the hands of the Borderless Group, and the record company will have to rely on the Borderless Group.

The 90s were the most glorious period for the physical record industry, and the major record companies made a lot of money.

To be honest, at this stage, the major record companies really don't think much of the Pandora music website.

Pandora Music Website is a paid website specializing in genuine music, so at the beginning of its development, the website traffic was not high, with less than 100,000 registered users and no 10,000 paid users.

Naturally, the record company disdained to work with it.

The Wujiang Group talked to the six major record companies in the United States, and each record company simply rejected the cooperation of the Wujiang Group.

The Wujiang Group wants to buy out the online music copyright, but the other party opens its mouth, the price of an old song is 100,000 US dollars, and the good songs and bad songs are packaged and sold together, and they even want to enjoy the download share.

A record company can make $100 million by casually coming up with a thousand songs.

Zhao Ye has never been accustomed to the unreasonable requirements of the record company. At this time, the United States strictly banned all products of the Borderless Group from entering the American market.

Zhao Ye decided not to negotiate with the American record company anymore and directly withdrew the negotiators.

The record company thought that the Borderless Group wanted to cooperate with them, but in fact, it was the opposite.

The record company doesn't understand the Internet, and it is a great gift that Wujiang Group wants to cooperate with them. They had to suffer from the ravages of pirated music on the Internet before they understood what pain was.

Zhao Ye left the MP3 player development department at this time, and as soon as he got in the car, he took out the phone and dialed a number.

"If you want people to invest a lot of money in the pirated music site Napster, you can find some of our partners and invest money in the name of advertising, so that they can have money to expand their servers."

"hao123 puts the Napster website in the most conspicuous place on the homepage, and marks it with a red 'Hot' next to it, indicating that the popularity of this website is very high!"

"Also, let the Borderless portal publish the pirated music Napster website on the news headlines, and promote Napster so that netizens all over the world know that there is a free music sharing site on the Internet! They don't need to buy physical records in the future, they can listen to songs for free on their computers and download music for free! ”

On the other end of the phone, Tim Berners-Lisa, CEO of Borderless Networks, couldn't help but feel sympathy for the record company.

However, he also expressed his support, and he had to teach these unbeatable record companies a lesson.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for the Pandora music website to develop.

Zhao Ye hung up the phone, and the secretary Liu Yinyin couldn't help but laugh and said: "Boss, if you make a move, the world's major record companies will be unlucky!" ”

Zhao Ye smiled faintly: "The major record companies in the United States don't know what to do, so let's just frustrate their spirit!" Finally, I'm going to get them to come and ask us to cooperate! ”

Zhao Ye's killer feature is the iPod music player.

Zhao Ye predicts that once the iPod is launched, it will definitely become popular all over the world.

The ipod's music download channel is actually controllable, so that it can only download genuine music on the Pandora music website, or it can download music on any pirated music website without any restrictions.

Zhao Ye even felt that it was good that the American record company did not cooperate with the Wujiang Group at this time.

In this way, when the iPod is first released, it can download pirated music, which will definitely boost the sales of the iPod, and then become a phenomenon that has taken the world by storm.

……

The founders of Napster, a pirate music site, never expected that their site would soon be flooded with advertising.

Zhao Ye knew that the traffic of the Napster website would become very large in the future, so the fertilizer and water did not flow into the fields of outsiders, so he asked people to find commodity suppliers who had a good relationship with the Wujiang Group, and suggested that they advertise on the Napster website.

In order to avoid suspicion, it is not easy for Wujiang Group to participate in it by itself.

……

Netherlands, Napster website, secret headquarters.

The three founders, Hugo Dorn, Marshall Flor, and Edwin Walton, were excited at this time.

"Great, our site was profitable right away, and we received five ads at once, making a total of $1 million, even though those five ads lasted for a year!!" Hugo Dorn hugged his two brothers, excited, and even couldn't help but kiss each other on the cheek.

It's not like that, it's really exciting.

The three of them started out as a common interest in creating Napster's free music-sharing site, but as Napster grew bigger, so did the expenses. All three of them were young people in their twenties and didn't have much money, and just when they thought that the Napster website was about to run out, an advertiser took the initiative to contact them and received five ads at once, which brought the Napster website back to life immediately.

Moreover, it also allowed the three of them to see the revenue potential of Napster's website.

Marshall Flower excitedly said, "Napster's website has less than one-twentieth the traffic of the borderless portal, but it generates $1 million in revenue!" Perhaps, as the Napster website grows bigger and stronger, all three of us can become multimillionaires, or even billionaires!! ”

Edwin Walton nodded and said excitedly, "I believe that more and more people will listen to music online, and the potential of Napster will be far beyond our imagination!" ”

At this moment, the three young people are full of hope for the future.

The ad revenue from the Napster website gives them a lot of hope.

……

That night, Hugo Donne, Marshall Flor, and Edwin Walton bought champagne and celebrated at home.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, Hugo Dorne, who was a little drunk, turned on the computer and wanted to check the traffic of the Napster website, he was suddenly stunned, and thought that he had drunk too much and read it wrong, so he quickly wiped his eyes with his hand.

When he looked at the data on the screen again, he checked it several times and found that he was not mistaken. He finally couldn't help but scream excitedly!

"Flor!! Walton!!! Come and see, all of a sudden, our website is on fire!! ”

Marshall Flower and Edwin Walton were slightly stunned when they heard this, and then hurriedly ran over and stared at the computer screen.

"Oh God, the traffic to our website has skyrocketed five or six times all at once!!" Marshall Flower was dumbfounded.

Edwin Walton was even more dumbfounded.

Both were in disbelief.

"Dorne, what's going on, how did our website suddenly get so much traffic?!!" Marshall Flower asked.

Hugo Dorn shook his head and said he didn't know: "I just found out about this situation, and I don't know exactly what caused it." ”

All three of them were puzzled right now.

However, they quickly found the reason.

"OMG! I see, you guys, the headlines of the Borderless portal are about our Napster website! Edwin Walton exclaimed, his expression a little stunned. He never imagined that it would be the Borderless Portal that was helping them promote the Napster website.

He took a quick look at the news and introduced it to netizens as a music sharing site where anyone can upload and download music on the Napster website, which is free of charge.

However, this would be a loss for the record labels, which would not easily let go of the Napster site.

The editors of the Borderless portal even dared to predict that the record companies would band together to crack down on Napster and bring the site's founders to justice.

In the comment area, Wujiang Group secretly sent people to lead the rhythm.

"The Napster website is really a good website, the music is all free, I don't have to buy physical records in the future, if you want to listen to the songs, just download them directly from the Napster website."

"The Napster website is a utopian !! for all those who love music"

"Damn, the Napster website is a music sharing website if it sounds good, and if it doesn't sound good, it is a pirated music website. This greatly harms the interests of the record company, how could the record company let the Napster website go? Brothers, while the Napster website is still there, let's hurry to the Napster website to download music! ”

"Hello founders of the Napster website, I suggest that you should be cautious in what you do in the future, and don't get caught by the record company!"

"Napster, please stick to it, don't be defeated by the record label!"

“……”

At this time, Hugo Dorne, Marshall Flower, and Edwin Walton looked at everyone's comments with mixed feelings.

Excited and scared at the same time.

Of course, they know what they're doing, and the record companies are sure to get them in trouble.

However, seeing netizens standing on their side, they felt very relieved and excited, and the three of them discussed it, and resolutely decided to make the Napster website bigger and stronger and create brilliance!

Moreover, the Napster website has made the three of them, or their hope of making a fortune, how is it possible to let them quit at this time?

At the moment, there is only one way to go to the dark and fight the record company to the end.

"The Napster website is getting too many visitors, the website is going to crash, and we need more servers!!" Hugo Dorne shouted.

Marshall Flower proposed: "The best web server in the world is developed by the Borderless Group, and we can only buy the help desk from the other party now!" ”

Wujiang Group actually has a server hosting business, however, with the popularity of the Napster website, the record company will sooner or later come to the door and finally block the Napster website.

As a result, the Napster website can only set up its own secret server.

"Flower, you can call the customer service of Wujiang Group tomorrow morning to find out the price of Nuwa's web server!!" Hugo Dorn said to Marshall Flower.

Marshall Flower nodded: "No problem, we have $1 million on hand now, and if we want to buy a few servers, it is still more than enough." ”

That night, the three of them stayed up all night and couldn't sleep excitedly.

At around 9 o'clock in the morning, Marshall Flor found the contact information of Wujiang Group on the Internet, and then called to ask about the price of Nuwa's web server.

After a while, Marshall Flower hung up the phone, turned his head to look at the two brothers, and said, "The price of Nuwa's web server is a bit expensive, $100,000 per unit!" ”

Hugo Dorn frowned and said, "We need at least 6 Nuwa web servers, and the rest of the money needs to be used to expand broadband, so the $1 million will be spent soon!" ”

Marshall Flower and Edwin Walton glanced at each other and couldn't help but sigh, it's really a money burn to be an Internet website!!

Edwin Walton couldn't help but envy: "It's still the Awesome Borderless Group, all the money we burned has made the Borderless Group earn ......"

Hugo Dorn is a little more mature than them, not so much sentimentality, he rationally analyzed, if the traffic remains the status quo, they can last for 8 months, if the traffic continues to skyrocket, it may not even last half a year.

However, with a lot of traffic, the Napster website can still receive ad orders.

"If only someone dared to invest in Napster!" Edwin Walton sighed.

When Marshall Flower heard this, he shook his head: "What we do is a pirated music website, which is illegal, who dares to invest in our website?" ”

Hugo Dorn's eyes lit up, he didn't quite agree with Marshall Flower's words, at this moment, he couldn't help but be very interested in the financing of the Napster website, and immediately said loudly: "I think there should be someone who dares to invest in the Napster website." Marx once said, 'As soon as there is a proper profit, capital is emboldened.' If there is a 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; With a 20% profit, it becomes active; With a 50% profit, it takes risks; For the sake of 100% profit, it dares to trample on all human laws; With a 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even risking hanging its head. ’

Under the promotion of the borderless portal, Napster's reputation has increased dramatically, and it has become the world's largest pirated music website!

Traffic means ad revenue.

The more traffic, the more ad revenue.

There are so many people selling 'flour' in the world, and our pirated music website is not a big crime compared to flour. Moreover, countries around the world do not have perfect laws and regulations on the issue of Internet music copyright for the time being. Even if we have a lawsuit with the record company, the other party can't help us. ”

"Oh, Dorne, you're still amazing, so wouldn't our Napster website have a lot of potential for development!!"

For a while, the trio's confidence was bursting, and they were determined to develop the Napster website into a mecca for pirated music around the world.

Pandora's box has been completely opened......

(End of chapter)