Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 227 Pandora's Box Has Been Opened

As we all know, Americans like to have parties.

That night, when the bigwigs in the Hollywood entertainment circle were having dinner, the bosses of several record companies chatted and talked about the Wujiang Group's desire to purchase music copyrights some time ago.

The president of Universal Records, Sam Cromwell, picked up a glass of red wine, took a sip, and proudly said to several colleagues around him: "By the way, a funny thing happened a while ago. Wujiang Group sent people to our Universal Music Company to negotiate online music copyrights. Hehe, Wujiang Group was so whimsical and unwilling to pay sky-high prices to buy copyrights. Instead, when our music was downloaded by users on the Pandora music website, we asked Give the other party 30% of the share!!! Hahaha... such a ridiculous condition, how could we Universal Records agree to it!"

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

Kyle Johnson, president of Sony Records, said: "Wujiang Group also found our company and proposed the same cooperation conditions, of course we are not willing!
It only costs $0.99 to download a song on the Pandora Pandora music website.

And we sell a genuine physical album, the price ranges from $20 to $40, and the income is much higher than the income from downloading music from the Internet!

Once we agree to cooperate with Wujiang Group, then online music will definitely impact the sales of physical albums! "

As soon as the words fell, the colleagues around couldn't help but nodded.

Moreover, once the cooperation is reached, the leading power will be controlled by Wujiang Group, and the record company will have to rely on Wujiang Group instead.

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

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

Pandora is a paid website specializing in genuine music, so at the beginning of its development, the website traffic was not high, with less than 10 registered users, and even less than [-] paying users.

Record companies naturally disdain to cooperate with it.

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

However, Wujiang Group wanted to buy out the copyright of online music, but the other party was very aggressive. The price of an old song was 10 US dollars. Good songs and bad songs were packaged and sold together, and they even wanted to enjoy the download share.

A record label can make $1 million by throwing out a thousand songs.

Zhao Ye was never used to the record company's unreasonable demands.At this time, the United States strictly prohibited all products of Wujiang Group from entering the US market.

Zhao Ye decided not to negotiate with American Records, and directly withdrew the negotiators.

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

Record companies do not understand the Internet, and Wujiang Group wants to cooperate with them, which is a great gift from heaven.They have to suffer from music piracy on the Internet before they realize what pain is.

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

"If someone invests a sum of money in the pirated music website Napster, we can find some of our partners to invest money in the website in the name of advertising, so that they have money to expand their servers."

"The hao123 website navigation website puts the Napster website in the most prominent place on the homepage, and marks it with a red 'Hot' next to it, indicating that this website is very popular!"

"In addition, let Wujiang Portal publish the pirated music Napster website on the news headlines, and promote it to Napster, so that netizens all over the world will know that there is a website for sharing music for free! Listen to songs for free and download music for free!"

On the other end of the phone, Tim Berners-Lisa, CEO of Borderless Networks, couldn't help feeling sympathetic for the record company when he heard the words.

However, he also expressed his support and must teach these majestic record companies a lesson.

Otherwise, Pandora Pandora music website is difficult to develop.

After Zhao Ye hung up the phone, secretary Liu Yinyin couldn't help laughing and said, "Boss, if you make such a move, the world's major record companies will be in trouble!"

Zhao Ye smiled faintly: "The major record companies in the United States don't know what's good and what's wrong, so why not just frustrate them! In the end, I want them to take the initiative to ask us to cooperate!"

Zhao Ye's trump card is the ipod music player.

Zhao Ye predicted that once the ipod is launched, it will be popular all over the world.

The music download channel of ipod is actually controllable. It can only download genuine music from Pandora Pandora music website, or it can download music from any pirated music website without any restrictions.

At this time, Zhao Ye even felt that it was good that American Records did not cooperate with Wujiang Group.

In this way, when the ipod is first released, you can download pirated music, which will definitely promote the sales of ipod, and then become a phenomenon-level product that is popular all over the world.

……

The founders of the pirated music website Napster never expected that their website would soon receive advertising investment.

Zhao Ye knew that the traffic on the Napster website would become very large in the future, so he asked people to find a product supplier with a good relationship with Wujiang Group and suggested that they place advertisements on the Napster website.

In order to avoid suspicion, Wujiang Group is not very good at getting involved.

……

Netherlands, Napster website, secret headquarters.

The three founders, Hugo Donne, Marshall Flower, and Edwin Walton, were ecstatic at this time.

"Great, our website became profitable immediately, and we received five advertisements at once, making a total profit of 100 million US dollars, although these five advertisements lasted as long as one year!!!" Hugo Do En hugged her two brothers, said excitedly, and even couldn't help kissing each other's cheeks fiercely.

Not that much, but really excited.

The three of them initially came together to create Napster, a free music-sharing website, because of a common interest. However, as the size of the Napster website became larger and larger, the expenses also increased.The three of them are just young people in their twenties and have no money. Just when they thought that the Napster website was about to fail, an advertiser contacted them and received five advertisements at once, which made Napster The website came 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: "The traffic of Napster website is less than one-twentieth of that of Borderless Portal, but it can generate a revenue of 100 million US dollars! Perhaps, as Napster website becomes bigger and stronger, the three of us Anyone can become a multi-millionaire, even a billionaire!!!”

Edwin Walton nodded heavily and said excitedly: "I believe that more and more people will listen to music online, and the development potential of Napster will far exceed our imagination!"

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

Napster's advertising revenue gave them a great hope.

……

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

At 9 o'clock in the evening, Hugo Dorn, who was a little drunk, turned on the computer and wanted to check the traffic of the Napster website. He was suddenly stunned, thinking that he had drunk too much. Wipe your eyes.

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 shouting excitedly!

"Flower!!! Walton!!! Come and take a look, our website has exploded suddenly!!!"

Marshall Flower and Edwin Walton were slightly taken aback when they heard this, then hurried over and stared at the computer screen.

"Oh, God, the traffic of our website has increased by five or six times at once!!!" Marshall Flower was dumbfounded.

Edwin Walton was even more dumbfounded.

Both of them couldn't believe it.

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

Hugo Donne shook his head and said he didn't know: "I just discovered this situation, and I don't know exactly what caused it."

The three of them are very puzzled now.

However, they soon discovered the reason.

"My God! So that's how it is. Come and see, the headline on the Wujiang Portal is about our Napster website!" Edwin Walton shouted, his expression somewhat astonished.It never occurred to him that Wujiang Portal was helping them promote the Napster website.

He quickly glanced at the content of the news, with an impartial attitude, and introduced to netizens that Napster is a music sharing website. Anyone can upload and download music on the Napster website. The main feature of the Napster website is free.

However, this will lose the interests of record companies, record companies will not easily let go of the Napster website.

The editors of the Borderless Portal website even boldly predicted that the record companies would unite to crack down on Napster and bring the founder of the website to justice.

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

"The Napster website is really a good website. All the music is free. I don't need to buy physical records anymore. If I want to listen to songs, I can download them directly from the Napster website."

"The Napster website is a utopia for everyone who loves music!!!"

"Damn it, the Napster website is a music sharing website if it sounds good, but it is a pirated music website if it is not good. This has greatly damaged the interests of the record company. How could the record company let the Napster website go? Brothers, take advantage of Napster The website is still there, let's go to the Napster website to download music!"

"Founders of the Napster website, hello, I suggest that you should be more careful in what you do in the future, and don't be caught by the record company!"

"Napster website, please stick to it, don't be beaten by record companies!"

"..."

At this moment, Hugo Donne, Marshall Flower, and Edwin Walton watched everyone's comments with mixed emotions.

Both excited and scared.

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

However, seeing netizens standing on their side one after another, they felt very gratified and excited. The three of them discussed and determined 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?

Right now, there is only one way to go to the dark, to fight the record company to the end.

"There are too many people visiting the Napster website, the website is about to crash, we need more servers!!!" Hugo Dorn shouted at this time.

Marshall Flower suggested: "The best web server in the world is developed by Wujiang Group, and now we can only find each other to buy a service desk!"

Wujiang Group actually has a server hosting business. However, with the fire of the Napster website, record companies will come to their door sooner or later, and finally block the Napster website.

Therefore, the Napster website can only establish its own secret server.

"Flower, 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 when he heard this: "No problem, we now have 100 million US dollars on hand, and we want to buy a few servers, which is still more than enough."

That night, the three of them stayed up all night, too excited to fall asleep.

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

After a while, Marshall Flower hung up the phone, turned to look at the two brothers, and said, "The price of the Nuwa web server is a bit expensive, 10 US dollars each!"

Hugo Donne frowned and said, "We need at least 6 Nuwa web servers, and the rest of the money will be used to expand the broadband. In this way, 100 million US dollars will be spent soon!"

Marshall Flower and Edwin Walton glanced at each other and couldn't help sighing, it's really expensive to build an Internet website! ! !

Edwin Walton couldn't help but enviously said: "Wujiang Group is still awesome, all the money we burned was made by Wujiang Group..."

Hugo Dorn is a little more mature than them, and he doesn't have so much sentimentality. He analyzed rationally. If the traffic remains the same, they can last for 8 months. If the traffic continues to increase sharply, they may not last for half a year.

However, the traffic is high, and the Napster website can still receive advertising orders.

"If only someone dared to invest in the Napster website!" Edwin Walton said with emotion.

Marshall Flower heard this, but shook his head: "What we are doing is a pirated music website, which is illegal. Who would dare to invest in our website?"

Hugo Donne’s eyes lit up, he didn’t quite agree with Marshall Flower’s words, at this moment, he couldn’t help being very interested in the financing of Napster website, and immediately said loudly: “I think there should be someone Dare to invest in the Napster website. Marx once said, "Once there is an appropriate profit, capital will be bold. If there is a 10% profit, it will be used everywhere; if there is a 20% profit, it will be active; if there is a 50% profit." For 100% profit, it dares to trample on all laws of the world; for 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even risking hanging.'

Under the promotion of Wujiang Portal, the reputation of Napster website has greatly increased, and it has become the largest pirated music website in the world!

Traffic means advertising revenue.

The more traffic, the more advertising revenue.

There are so many people selling 'flour' in the world. Compared with flour, our pirated music websites are not a big crime at all.Moreover, countries around the world do not have comprehensive laws and regulations on the issue of Internet music copyright.Even if we go to court with the record company, the other party can't do anything to us. "

"Oh, Dawn, you are still amazing. In this way, our Napster website has great potential and great development potential!!!"

All of a sudden, the three were full of confidence and determined to develop the Napster website into a holy place for pirated music in the world.

Pandora's box has been completely opened...

(End of this chapter)