I know very well that this time, in the face of piracy, what has begun is a real struggle, even a war! It may not have happened, but since we have come to this point - we are sure that piracy will not disappear completely because of any sense of introspection - then we have no choice but to fight to the end!

In fact, piracy has been raging in our country since about two decades ago, and it has left the traditional publishing industry unsustainable and on the verge of collapse. Less than half a month after the release of a book, if it is widely acclaimed, then you can almost 100 percent see the shadow of pirated works on roadside stalls -- poor typography, mistakes and omissions, unbearable reading -- so that while pirated booksellers are making a lot of money, the total number of new books published in China and the number of readers have plummeted year after year.

Later, the society developed and we entered the Internet age, and the opening of the Internet allowed many people to regain the joy of reading, and many authors were able to unleash their talents. Since the establishment of the starting point Chinese website, I have seen countless talented authors break out of the cocoon and display their literary brilliance on the Internet, providing readers with rich and interesting reading content, while also shaping China into the world's largest original online literature market!

However, the shadow of piracy has not dissipated. Yes, there are fewer stalls and fewer self-employed pirates, but piracy seems to have entered a "new stage" of networking, collectivization, and scale, and their capital and technical "strength" has become stronger, their appetite is greater, and they are more arrogant. There is even a concept of "second piracy" - when a writer posts his or her hard-working work on the Internet, the pirate can immediately steal it with impunity through so-called "technical means". Let the writer's days and months of hard work go to waste!

What is even more tragic is that some "Internet industry leaders" will also happily join in because of the profit drive! There is no doubt about it. They have a "powerful" level that ordinary authors can't imagine -- not only is the technology that is ahead of China and even the world in some fields, but they also know the law very well. Understand public relations - they will shrewdly and seriously write on the webpage "All chapters are uploaded by netizens, if your rights and interests are violated, please contact us." And when naïve writers do contact and complain, they are unexpectedly deaf, blind and amnesiac. And if they happen to encounter some public condemnation caused by particularly bad piracy, their professional public relations team will step forward and launch a series of well-known and crowned calibers such as "safe harbor principle", "netizens' uploads are user-spontaneous", "openness of the Internet", etc., to shirk the responsibility completely. And if you are in a good mood, you may calmly add a sentence: "Dialectically, we have also helped many writers and works to publicize." These books can quickly become popular, and objectively we cannot ignore our contributions. ”

Yes, it's ingenious, it's professional, it's amazing!

However, it is also shameless.

Today, we don't need genius prophets, and we also know that cultural creativity will become the most active and important industrial direction in the world in the future. United States, Japan. Europe, China, every country and nation are struggling to brew, accumulate and develop, and increase their weight in this huge market.

In the process. We also want to devote the most energy to the cultivation and discovery of writers, and hope that the Internet will give birth to a new generation of Mo Yan and Jin Yong, so that the most Chinese can read the richest and most interesting content in the most convenient and relaxed way. And then let them feel the joy and beauty of the spirit. But the rampant piracy has made it impossible to talk about any of this! Because no matter how talented and beautiful it is. It is impossible to grow and bloom in the soil of loss of respect!

We can't stand it – a screen full of search results is piracy. And for genuine content to find its place, it must be forced to buy keywords.

We can't stand it -- pirates are trading millions of writers for huge traffic, and then they are openly inserted into the advertisements of various male gynecology hospitals, harming users.

We can't stand it - not only do writers who go to great lengths to write a wonderful story not get the rewards they deserve, but they are also banned from the post bar for calling for reading the original version, and even their family members are subjected to vicious abuse.

We can't stand the smugness of "stealing your book is to save your face", and the pretended ignorance of "we only do technology development".

We can't stand it -- those "Internet leaders" have no problem proclaiming their values while allowing the cultural and creative industry, which has been so hard to regain its prosperity, repeating the tragedy of 20 years ago.

Actually, I really hate words like "war" and "struggle", whether it is today, or when I was studying at Peking University 20 years ago, if there is one thing that has not changed, it is my love for reading and literature. Like many, many people, if I can have enough time every day to make a cup of tea, bask in the sun, and read my favorite novels at any time with my pad or mobile phone, I feel that I am close to "happiness".

But it is for the sake of this "happiness" that I, we, today, have no choice but to fight this war!

Before today, we have made some attempts, we have gained some successes and failures, and we have gained an understanding of the hardships and difficulties of this war. I know that starting a war means that we may have to fight more than 200 lawsuits a year, it may mean hundreds of millions of expenses, it may mean facing unimaginable cunning, viciousness and cruelty, and it may mean years, decades or even decades.

But I will continue to fight, because of the dream I established fourteen years ago, the day the beginning was founded, because I trusted countless writers to join us in the same team, because I firmly believed that truth and justice may be late, but they will never be absent!

I hope that all those who believe in their dreams will join us in supporting those who create their dreams with actions today:

Don't look at piracy!

Do not spread piracy!

Don't get involved in piracy!

This may not be a war that should happen, but since there is no escape, we will fight to the end!

I'm Wu Wenhui, and I'm responsible for what I say! )