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We are a foreign company, and we come from a so-called socialist country. Therefore, Europe and the United States will not open up sensitive areas such as communications.
Besides, there are already ICQ and WeChat in foreign countries, and they are relatively mature, and the users are basically wiped out by them.
Our WeChat is only going out now, it is already too late.Facing the dual pressure of the market and the national level, it is difficult to grow up.
This is not something our company can do through hard work.
In this case, let's not waste our efforts at all. "
Yu Wenfei explained with a smile.
He is well aware that Internet communication also belongs to the communication industry. How can European and American countries allow companies from China to intervene in such an industry.
Even the so-called commercial freedom is small in scale when it first started, with few users and little influence, so they don’t care about you.
But when you get bigger, or even reach the scale of monopoly, you will know if they can do it or not.
And with software like WeChat, it's too easy for others to mess with you, and you can't hide it.
Compared with Facebook, it will be better, but Yu Wenfei does not dare to be too optimistic about what will happen in the future, so when Facebook first entered North America, he made preparations to deal with future crises !
Cai Congxin is a bit at a loss, he doesn't know much about ideology.
He was born in Taiwan and studied in the United States, so he understands these things.
However, since Yu Wenfei brought it up so seriously, Cai Congxin understood that it must be reasonable. Of course, President Fei would not talk nonsense when it comes to major issues related to the company's development.
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As the time entered April, Yuwenfei's various companies became more and more busy.
Facebook Entertainment formed the China Network Video and Video Anti-Piracy Alliance and sued Baidu for the first trial.
The legal department led by Fang Zhiyan had already done a lot of evidence collection work in the early stage.
Just the printed photocopies of the suspected pirated and infringed webpages on Baidu website can fill a whole room!
This is one of the reasons why Internet infringement lawsuits are difficult to fight. It is too difficult to provide evidence...
However, as long as you are willing to spend money, these are not a problem.
It just so happens that what Facebook Entertainment lacks most is money!
Facebook, standing behind it, just got back $60 billion from the American stock market!
So in court, facing the large amount of evidence presented by the lawyer team led by Fang Zhiyan, even the judge felt his head sweating, because there were too many and too detailed.
These evidences do not mean that you hire a batch of temporary workers to print them out and you are done.
Instead, it must be printed page by page by a professional lawyer under the supervision of a notary office, so that it has legal effect.
Hiring lawyers and notaries is a lot of money, so this is why it is so difficult to fight infringement lawsuits in the Internet industry.
You may spend millions of dollars, and you can only get tens of thousands of dollars in compensation after you win the lawsuit. The gain outweighs the loss...
But the purpose of Facebook Entertainment's lawsuit is not compensation, it is to kill chickens for monkeys to see, and warn all infringing and pirated websites not to attack Facebook Entertainment.
Otherwise, no matter how much energy, manpower, and financial resources are spent, I must fuck you!
Baidu is the "chicken" that was killed...
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The lawsuit went smoothly, and Baidu also realized the determination and preparation of Facebook Entertainment.
Anyway, even if it is an infringement, it is nothing more than compensation and apology.
And the amount of compensation will not be too high, because Baidu has not obtained direct economic benefits from these infringement and piracy.
The invisible benefits are unclear.
Therefore, there is a high probability that the compensation will be 80 yuan, which is considered a high amount of compensation in similar lawsuits.
If the lawsuit drags on, the attorney fees alone will be enough for Baidu.
Facebook Entertainment has a lot of money, so naturally they don't care about lawyer fees, but Baidu does...
At the end of the lawsuit, Baidu realized its management negligence and lack of respect for copyright awareness.
I sincerely apologized, and said that I would remove all copyrighted audio and video links on Facebook from the website, and ensure that no hotlinking will be done through search software such as crawlers in the future.
As for the economic compensation, it is really not high, only 160 million.
But Facebook Entertainment has already achieved its own goal. By suing Baidu, it has deterred all piracy websites.
Even Baidu has fallen, and which pirate website would dare to play the idea of Facebook entertainment.
Everyone should quickly check their own websites to see if there is anything related to the copyright of Facebook Entertainment, and if there is, it should be removed immediately.
In the past, everyone carried out copyright infringement and piracy without any scruples. It was because no company was serious with them, not because they were not afraid.
Now there are real companies appearing, and they are rich and powerful. Who is not afraid of such companies.
Chapter 828
The lawsuit was won, but that was only the first step.
The ultimate goal of Facebook Entertainment is to cultivate the user's concept of payment, and to make its website start to have the ability to generate revenue.
Yes, Dong Xiaoxue hasn't dared to think about making a profit yet, as long as she can start to generate revenue, she will be very satisfied.
Compared with Facebook Entertainment's huge annual investment, at least in a few years, don't even think about making a profit.
Moreover, at the beginning, she did not dare to adopt the membership fee system, and could only make money by placing video advertisements first.
The reason why we need to get rid of piracy first is because if piracy websites continue to appear everywhere, if your genuine website has advertisements in the title of the video and the pirate website doesn’t, maybe users will choose the piracy website.
Anyway, where can I see it?
Therefore, Dong Xiaoxue had to knock down the large-scale pirated and infringing websites first, and then dared to place advertisements in the title part of the video on this website.
In this case, users have no choice, even if they don't like to watch ads, they can only watch them on the Facebook video site.
As for Facebook music, there is no way to place advertisements here. I just hope to gather more users and wait for the launch of the membership fee system in the future to have the ability to generate revenue. Don’t even think about it for the time being.
After suing Baidu and blocking all web crawlers after upgrading its own internal technology, one of the most notable changes is that the active users of Facebook videos and Facebook music have skyrocketed in vain.
In the past, when some people wanted to watch movies, TV shows or listen to songs, they used to search for the corresponding name on Baidu, and then click on the first link to watch it.
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