Chapter 311: Being number one in the world is not so easy
Although people thought that Kuaibo died because of pornography, including the crime that the court convicted Wang Xin of was related to the dissemination of pornographic materials for profit.
But in whose hands did Kuaibo die?
While other video websites are suffering from bandwidth and copyright, Qvod uses peer-to-peer technology to win over a large number of users on the sidelines of piracy.
Established in 2007, by the end of 2011, the number of active users of Qvod has surpassed all video websites with genuine copyrights.
The legalization of video giants has brought about two impacts. First, copyrights have become more and more expensive. Due to competition from all parties, the cabbage price has become a white powder price. On the other hand, the giants have also tried their best to safeguard their copyright rights and interests after entering the game. The market began to become regulated.
In the past, it was difficult to crack down on piracy because of the difficulty of supervision. When the big guys bought copyrights at high prices, they naturally became the regulators of the market. If there is any infringement, they should immediately report it. How can others sleep on the couch lying on their side?
Kuaibo started off by piracy, and has made piracy to the point where major video websites are frightened.
There are tens of thousands of websites in China that rely solely on Qvod to produce pirated film and television content, among which nearly 10 have annual revenue exceeding 10 million yuan.
This is only the case of pirated movie websites, and there is no way to calculate the development of pornographic websites that are more covert and have stronger money-absorbing capabilities.
It is at least twice that of ordinary pirated video business.
It’s not like the video giants haven’t hammered Qvod.
Just the aftermath, the aftershock, scared other well-known piracy websites, frightened them, and entered it.
For example, Youku once sued Site A for having a large amount of pirated content. This resulted in the three administrators of Site A being detained in their own names for a full month.
Having a bad premonition, VeryCD completely removed its resource search service from the shelves in 2011.
Xunlei simply sold Gou Search, the resource search tool it was proud of, for less than 10,000 yuan, and stopped making mistakes.
Only Kuaibo runs happily. Report on Baidu, Penguin, Youku, LeTV and other video websites, and happily make a lot of money.
In 12 years, it had as many as 300 million users!
There is so much support behind Kuaibo, it’s quite fierce...
In the end, the big bosses were forced to leave and report in person.
Brother Xiao Ma even used Nanshan Pizza Hut.
Then Wang Xin imitated Lao Zhou and escaped decisively.
But Penguin and LeTV, who were the most crazy about spending money to buy copyrights, were not willing to let him go.
Wang Xincheng absconded.
The next day, a red notice was issued.
He was captured and brought to justice 110 days after he fled abroad.
During the court hearing, the official conducted a live webcast to serve as a warning to others.
He was prosecuted in 2013 and tried in 2016.
After three years of quarrel, he was finally sentenced to 3 years and 6 months...
Perhaps Wang Xin herself never thought that she would be so hated by others.
Although Boss Wang will have a miserable future, he is undoubtedly the most nourishing person in his life now. Video giants such as Youku, iQiyi, Sohu, and LeTV... are all struggling with revenue, and Qvod is a great experience.
Li Mingyang used the trumpet to contact Qvod’s business manager. Although the two had never met, they were familiar with each other.
Because live streaming relies on various pirated websites to attract traffic. Pirated websites rely on in-site advertisements and forced pop-up advertisements to make a living.
After the cooperation is completed.
Li Mingyang glanced at the time, it was past four in the afternoon.
After thinking for a while, Li Mingyang sent a message to Wu Zhikui and Ye Xiangdong, asking them to come to his office.
Although he can publish directly on station B now.
But this is the success of their labor after all.
For a filmmaker, it is incomplete without experiencing the excitement of an online film.
Half an hour later, everyone arrived. Li Mingyang told everyone his idea of testing One Punch Man on Station B.
Everyone seems to think that it is really just a test, and they do not realize that One Punch Man can only be launched on their own website.
On November 15th, at five o’clock, One Punch Man will debut at Station B!
Except for the internal promotion of Station B, there is no external promotion.
More than half an hour has passed. In the two-dimensional gathering place, the real-life version of the bald head is not welcome. The clicks are average and there are no comments.
Two hours later, dozens of major piracy websites that cooperated with Qibo all attacked One Punch Man at the same time.
One Punch Man on the pirated website directly jumps to the One Punch Man play window on Station B.
Each jump will add one click to One Punch Man at Station B.
With this set of operations, which lasted for a week, Kuaibo asked him for 500,000 yuan.
In the next two days, Wang Changtian urged him to publicize your name as a matter of routine.
Li Mingyang turned a deaf ear and didn't even return home, focusing on One Punch Man.
The promotion of Qvod was terrible. In two days, One Punch Man only had more than two million views.
In fact, there is not much traffic inside site B, and it all depends on piracy for complete redirection.
There aren’t many comments, they all praise the special effects.
Li Mingyang was worried and panicked. Others didn’t know about Qvod, but they thought the effect was very good. The traffic of station B was not high in the first place.
In two days, there were more than two million clicks, and everyone was very satisfied.
As time goes by, smart people will wonder why it hasn’t been launched on Youku yet.
Rumors will definitely spread by then.
To be honest, if the mainstream platform does not allow it, it will dampen everyone’s enthusiasm.
Li Mingyang was thinking about how to drag him on when there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Wu Zhikui opened the door and walked into the office, holding a stack of documents in his arms.
Then he handed the top thin document to Li Mingyang.
Li Mingyang took the document, read it for a while, raised his head, and said with a smile: "Old Wu, you are quite capable of management."
Wu Zhikui summarized the company's performance in the past month. Financial statements, approvals, business contracts, and plans are all divided into categories, organized into volumes, and made into simple and clear PPT.
“There happened to be a few people who knew how to do PPT, so I let them do it. It looked okay and can save you a lot of time.”
Li Mingyang nodded, but took out the document and reviewed it himself.
Internet companies especially like to do PPT. When he was at Penguin Video, he was frightened by PPT.
Penguin Video’s PPT likes to change data, and also likes to use some exclamation sentences to embellish the content.
Don’t change?
If you report it truthfully, everyone will be blue in the face. They will suffer a huge loss...
"I seem to have done unnecessary things." Wu Zhikui said with a wry smile.
“I still prefer to see real data.”
“Well, I will make a big catalog for you in the form of a movie planning book in the future.”
"It's actually not that troublesome."
"Your time is more valuable than ours."
Li Mingyang put down the documents and felt that Wu Zhikui had something to say. He stood up and went to the wine cabinet and took out two bottles of beer from the cabinet.
Unscrew the bottle cap directly by hand.
Then he asked Wu Zhikui to sit in the rest area.
After taking two sips of beer, Li Mingyang said: "One Punch Man cannot be accessed on Youku, nor can it be accessed on mainstream video websites such as Tudou and iQiyi. It can only be broadcast on Station B."
"I guessed it." Wu Zhikui said calmly, "If it could be online, you would have already broadcast it on Youku. Station B is a two-dimensional piracy website. It is not on the same track as mainstream video websites, and the audience base is also different. Test It’s a comfort.”
"It can't be said to be a consolation." Li Mingyang really wanted to make One Punch Man a reality.
"Actually... many people have guessed it, but they haven't said it yet. Everyone seems very excited, just to show you."
Wu Zhikui took a sip of wine, "We have done so much. It doesn't matter whether the audience recognizes it or not. What matters is whether you recognize it or not. You are a genius. We, no matter how hard we try, can't catch up with you."
"You are just a flower. In two days, the film we worked on for more than a month was transformed into a completely new one. We all thought that the editing was in place. The one hour and thirty-five minutes of video is the result of a week of analysis and operation, and you still have it. I was able to cut out twenty-five minutes and re-do the soundtrack..."
"In addition to the popularity of One Punch Man at the end of the year, the IP of One Punch Man cost at least 70 million, which was a loss. , I never made any money.”
"Those of us were actually brought here by you, and we don't belong to our level at all. The more we want to prove ourselves, the more we fail to do so. We are incapable of doing so. To put it bluntly, we are just not capable enough..."
"I have not approved of Zhang Zhao's system from the beginning. It is too restrictive and has no room for development. Everything is based on market experience. Many of us don't even know what market experience is."< br>
“Rather than being constrained, it’s better to overthrow and start over, do what you want, do what you can, and then make the One Punch Man you see. The original intention of this movie was two special effects. "
"After following you for so long, I feel that what limits your performance is the special effects. If we can solve the special effects problem, then nothing will be a problem for you."
Understanding. In such a long time, this was the first time Li Mingyang heard Wu Zhikui's long speech.
He has given up on directing.
Just like Zhang Zhao, he gave up being a director and transformed into capital.
Wu Zhikui does not yet have the ability to make capital, but with the talent and framework that Famous Entertainment already has... he wants to be a producer.
“You want to be a producer?”
“Well, I feel that being a producer is quite suitable for me. I don’t need to waste my brain thinking about how to structure a movie. I just need a good script. , I can let professional people do professional things and get it done.”
"One Punch Man Network is the easiest and happiest project I have ever done."
Li Mingyang didn't say anything more and patted Wu Zhikui on the shoulder.
If Lao Wu concentrates on being a producer, it will undoubtedly be the most beneficial to the development of Ming Yang Entertainment.
It can relieve him a lot of burden.
But in the long run, Li Mingyang hopes that Lao Wu can become a great director.
In the future, Internet capital will fully enter domestic entertainment... In just two years, there will be no shortage of excellent producers in the entertainment industry, but great directors...
"You guys are pretending to be similar, I am worried. I know what to tell you.”
Wu Zhikui smiled, raised his head, drank the beer, and put the bottle on the coffee table, “I heard from Mr. Wang that you don’t want to compete for the championship this year?”< br>
"It's not that I don't want to, the interests involved are too complicated..."
"Are you not confident in your name?"
If others asked this, Li Mingyang would definitely not tell the truth.
Li Mingyang was too lazy to pretend as Lao Wu said, "If you are confident, it will be no problem to take 300 million, but any more will be difficult."
"Vote subsidy cannot solve it."
"If you have a ticket to make up for it, it's only 300 million. If you don't have a ticket to make up, haha, over 100 million would be good."
"So low? Are you looking down on yourself too much? I think your name is very pretty. Ah!”
"Good movies suck at the box office, and bad movies have good box office. In the final analysis, the film market is still about fighting for capital and resources. In the end, it is the market that speaks. The movie has not been released yet. Look at what they have done. I’m only 21. What does it mean to win this year’s title over Jiang Wen, Feng Pants, and Chen Shi?”
“I’m not the number one director in the country. Even if it's released, you'll be targeted. It's not easy to be number one in the world..."
Wu Zhikui nodded, not believing a word of it.
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(End of this chapter)