"Internet giant Yahoo accused of plagiarism by new unicorn Riot Games"

"The evidence of Yahoo's plagiarism is conclusive, and the IP of the person who carries the content points to Block A of the Yahoo office building"

Due to the follow-up electronic payment software, Zhou Xin asked Luis to lead the establishment of a special information security department.

It's just that I didn't expect that the first shot of the department was not to build a security system for electronic payment software, but to locate his IP address through the poster, and further locate the address in reality through the IP address.

Coincidentally, the Yahoo office building is a dedicated line, which means that the entire office building uses a dedicated IP.

Instead of sharing it with other buildings.

There is no way to deny it.

"The Yahoo Games Community Content Mover IP has been accused by Riot Games of being located at 721 First Avenue at N Mathilda Ave, Sunnyvale, where Yahoo's offices are located."

After the formation of a complete chain of evidence, public opinion further fermented.

"You've done a very good job, leaving Yahoo defenseless.

They are a little overwhelmed.

I haven't seen Jerry speak out in this situation. Bill Gates smiled triumphantly.

When the entire North American Internet and even the global Internet were in an uproar because of this incident, Zhou Xin was basking in the sun with Bill Gates at an upscale café in San Francisco.

"Because their methods are so clumsy, I have formed a complete chain of evidence.

They have no way to deny it. ”

Bill Gates held up his coffee and gestured, "We need to celebrate." ”

For Bill Gates, and the Microsoft behind him, Yahoo is a direct competitor.

Although Yahoo does not make operating systems, Microsoft wants to be an Internet service provider, and Microsoft is not willing to only make operating systems.

Whether it was the acquisition of Hotmail or later MSN, Microsoft showed a strong interest in messaging software.

And now Yahoo's Yahoo Mail is their worst enemy.

In the previous battlefield of Internet services, Yahoo has been pressing Microsoft.

In the minds of users, Microsoft is a product of the previous era, and Yahoo represents the future.

So Bill Gates would love to see Yahoo deflated, or under the companies he invested.

Zhou Xin took a sip of coffee and added: "There is also the credit for the media resources you helped me introduce."

Without the cooperation of these media, we would not have been able to make such a big splash so quickly.

The Riot community has seen rapid growth in user numbers lately, and this week has grown more than the last two months combined.

At present, we have officially more than one million users worldwide, and a large part of them are from Europe. ”

Bill Gates seemed to remember something, "I have a lot of media friends who want to interview you."

Murdoch, you know?

The boss of the New York Post and the Boston Herald, he wants to interview you, of course, it depends on your wishes, if you want to, I will ask the secretary to talk to him later, and someone from his side will contact you at that time. ”

Zhou Xin shook his head: "The New York Post and the Boston Herald are not of sufficient grade.

I've got to be interviewed by the New York Times or The Times. ”

Bill Gates smiled: "I didn't expect yours to be the same as me, and you can't look down on the New York Post."

I'll have to talk to him. ”

"I don't mind being interviewed, it's just that it's not the right time for me to come out.

Everyone's eyes are drawn to the Yahoo vs. Riot battle itself, and I can't draw the audience's attention to me at this time. ”

"Makes sense.

Your behavior this time has given me a lot of inspiration, and we can punish the other party for infringements that cannot be defined in the legal sense.

The war in the Internet industry is not just about the product, and it is not necessarily limited to whose product is more attractive to customers.

We can also extend further to traditional industries, such as media.

Building your own brand, and destroying the other party's brand, is a war in a higher dimension.

Yahoo's brand image has been badly damaged, and this is the biggest blow to them. ”

Bill Gates had some thoughts on this matter, but Zhou Xin shook his head and said that the other party's thinking was problematic: "Not all plagiarism incidents can cause such big waves.

The reason why Yahoo was so upset by our counterattack was that they had to face more than just Riot.

It's all web forums.

Yahoo can do this to Riot's community, which means it can do to other online forums as well.

Yahoo itself controls the entrance to the Internet, and with such a huge amount of traffic, if there is no lower limit to carry the content of other Internet forums, then other Internet forums will have no room to survive.

Behind actually all the web forums together attacked Yahoo.

At the same time, Yahoo's previous plagiarism stuck in copying the design of other portals and the content of other portals, which was not deeply felt by users.

For users, on the contrary, they will find it convenient, and they are blunt about plagiarism.

But this time Yahoo is directly copying user-generated content, you make a post, and you enjoy the feeling of having a lot of replies below, and this feeling of being surrounded is caused by the content you created.

All of a sudden, someone else moves your content away without warning, and this kind of plagiarism is a disservice to the user.

Of course, there is also our impetus behind it.

The combination of various factors has caused such a violent response this time.

In other words, it is a general infringement and has no effect on Yahoo at all. ”

This is also why during the 3Q war in later generations, basically all the Internet companies that did not participate in the goose factory stood on the side of 360, and everyone was really afraid.

Some people are comfortable, and some people are anxious.

Yahoo executives are the ones who are the ones who are in a hurry.

In a week, Yahoo's stock price fell 20%.

More importantly, Yahoo's corporate image has taken a heavy hit.

They just issued a statement on the front foot that this was a user behavior, and the back foot was slapped in the face by a screenshot of the fist, and the IP address of the poster was found.

This kind of feeling of just punching the opponent's arm and being slapped in the face by the opponent's backhand is really uncomfortable.

"Jerry, please answer why Yahoo is copying Riot's electronic community?"

"Jerry, Yahoo stock price is falling and falling, when do you expect the stock price to stabilize?"

"Jerry, did you instigate Yahoo's copying of Riot's electronic community content, or did executives make an assertion of it?"

Compared with coming to Wall Street, Yang Zhiyuan is more willing to stay in Silicon Valley.

But there was no way, Yahoo's stock price suddenly collapsed, and he needed to go to Wall Street to calm the emotions of investors.

It can't cause Yahoo's stock price to collapse further.

As a result, as soon as he arrived in New York, after the reporter in New York learned about the hotel where he was staying, he took advantage of the time he went out to ask questions, and he still asked questions that he could not answer.