Chapter 170: Pirated VCDs
Under the leadership of Jia Jingwen and Xu Jinglei, Chen Qiming and the three of them began a short three-day tour of the capital.
First went to climb the Great Wall for a day.
The scenery is indeed beautiful, especially standing on the Great Wall and looking around, you can't help but feel a sense of heroism.
Then the next morning, the three went to see the flag-raising ceremony.
The only pity is that Chen Qiming can't go in to visit.
During this period, Chen Qiming also probably discovered Jia Jingwen's thoughts.
She and Xu Jinglei cooperated with each other, revealing from time to time that she liked her own ideas.
Being liked by others, and openly and secretly confessing to himself, this is not Chen Qiming's first experience.
He is quite experienced in this regard.
He didn't promise his cryptic confession, nor did he show any dislike for her.
Well, I understand, but I pretend I don't understand.
"You're always too soft-hearted"
"Alone in tears till dawn"
"You love that person without regrets"
"I know you're not that strong at all"
On the afternoon of the 28th, the capital Sanlitun.
Singing echoes in the video stores on the street.
This is not a tape singing, but a VCD with images.
Although "Too Soft Heart" has been released for more than half a year, in the mainland, this album is still very popular so far.
The simple and beautiful melody and singing made passers-by can't help but stop one by one, and then look at the video store.
The entrance of the store, which is full of tapes and VCDs, is covered with dense posters of celebrities.
There are the four kings of Hong Kong, Leslie Cheung and Alan Tam, the Little Tigers and Wang Jie, Qi Qintong Ange, and the mainland side is Yang Yuying, Mao Ning, Na Ying, Liu Huan and others.
Among them, Chen Qiming's poster is the most conspicuous.
The big poster directly occupies the C position, which is quite a feeling of looking down on the crowd.
Opposite the video store, Chen Qiming happened to walk here.
After hearing the singing from the video store, Xu Jinglei immediately said that she wanted Chen Qiming to give her a signed CD.
After getting Chen Qiming's consent, she immediately rushed into the video store, and after a while, she walked out of the video store with three or four VCDs.
After taking the VCD record from her hand, Chen Qiming smiled and asked for an autograph.
It's just that he reflexively flipped the VCD to the back, and then swept the publication number.
This sweep immediately made him pause, and he looked at the record carefully.
After taking a closer look, Chen Qiming came to a conclusion that the records Xu Jinglei bought were all pirated.
He looked at Xu Jinglei, "Are all the records in the capital like this?" ”
"What do you mean?" Xu Jinglei was a little puzzled.
"Forget it, I'll go to the video store myself!"
After thinking about it, Chen Qiming felt that Xu Jinglei should not understand some things about records.
So, he simply walked to the video store himself.
Later, Xu Jinglei and Jia Jingwen glanced at each other suspiciously, not understanding what Chen Qiming was going to do, but they still followed.
【Trendy Audio】
The video store is very new, and the name is clearly a reference to the name of Chan's first album.
Chen Qiming walked into the store, there was a lot of space inside, and five or six shelves were all covered with various audio-visual VCDs and tapes.
At this time, there were five or six people picking out records.
"If you have any favorite VCD and tape, you can pick and choose, and the new store will be opened, and the price is very cheap!"
At the counter, the owner of the video store is reading a newspaper.
Sensing someone coming in, he said without raising his head.
Chen Qiming scanned the store and quickly found his record storage area.
That's a separate area.
His posters are plastered on the shelves with the words "Chen Qiming" written on them, and the shelves next to him are almost entirely full of his records.
He walked over and pulled a random VCD out of the shelf.
The cover is cool, he wears sunglasses and has a grim face.
Looking at the publication number on the back again, Chen Qiming's heart sank slightly.
Looking through a few more VCDs from the shelves, without exception, he found that these VCDs were all pirated.
Watching a few people, customers took VCDs from the shelves and left the store happily.
Chen Qiming can imagine how much money he lost.
Before, he had heard Liu Ciwei say that in the past few months since the rise of VCD, the mainland record market has been greatly affected by piracy.
A large number of pirated VCDs began to appear on the market, which seriously affected the sales of records.
He didn't pay much attention to it at the time.
Now it seems that this is probably more than just an impact.
In general, I am afraid that the entire mainland record market has been ruined by VCD piracy.
"Brother Qiming, what's wrong? Is there something wrong? ”
At this time, Alyssa Jia, who followed up, asked suspiciously.
"These records are pirated and have the wrong publication number!"
As he spoke, Chen Qiming pointed to the publication number on the back of the VCD and said, "The products produced by the regular audio-visual publishing house will be marked with the text image or the text and the sound on the corner of the packaging box, as well as the copyright certificate number or the approval number of the national right image.
Pirated CDs generally do not have an approved font size, or the approval font size is incomplete.
And this is directly without an approved font size.
In addition, the publishing house on this is not right, the publishing house that our company cooperates with is China Audiovideo, and this is Tianjin Audiovideo. ”
Shaking his head, Chen Qiming said: "Forget it, don't worry about it, I will ask the company to contact China Audio and Video Processing." ”
The existence of pirated records seriously harms the interests of singers, record companies, and even publishing companies.
First of all, of course, there is the issue of income.
The second is that piracy is, after all, piracy, and most of its production is crude, and some of them are not even accurate in content.
What's more, some piracy companies will also sell dog meat on the head of a sheep.
The cover of the record was given to Chen Qiming's record, but after the VCD was taken to the VCD player for playback, it was filled with pornographic movies or some messy content.
And the audience is easily misled.
He originally planned to buy Chen Qiming's records, but the quality of the records he bought was not good, or there were no Chen Qiming's songs in them.
The first thing he must have done was to get in trouble with the boss who sold his records.
But then, with incomplete information, he may not even know that he is buying pirated copies.
I don't even know what piracy is and what is genuine.
He will only attribute his bad experience with this record to singers like Chen Qiming.
One, two, or three or four people are in this situation.
Their impression of Chen Qiming has decreased, and it is naturally easy to affect Chen Qiming's image.
Whether it is a singer or a movie star, it depends on word-of-mouth and image.
If your image is ruined, or if the audience doesn't feel anything about you, then no matter how famous you are, you're basically doomed.
"Let's go first!"
Chen Qiming took the initiative to leave the store.
Of course, he didn't buy a record.
Piracy harms his interests, it's not bad that he didn't trouble his boss on the spot, how could he still buy this record.
However, although I told Jia Jingwen and others that it was okay.
But that night, Chen Qiming immediately called Fulong Company about the incident in the capital and asked them to think of a way.
If you want to ban pirated VCDs, that is obviously impossible.
Since an industry can rise, it naturally means that it has very large interests.
If there are interests, there will never be a shortage of those who pursue interests.
In addition, there is almost no awareness of copyright on the mainland, and it is almost impossible to cut off piracy.
All they can do now is to avoid precautions as much as possible, and try to make enough money when piracy of a record is rampant.
(End of chapter)