Chapter 424: Red and White Song Festival

Although December 31, 1999 caused quite a lot of controversy, thinking that 2000 was the last year of the world, most people in the world were immersed in the excitement of celebrating the Millennium Night. People from all over the world were looking forward to the ringing of the twelve o'clock in the middle of the night. At this time, in the backstage of the Japanese NHK TV Red and White Song Festival, many singers under Starlight Entertainment were nervously putting on makeup and dressing as special guests. The beauties who were close to Yang Xing were not on the stage. They were thinking that before coming to Japan a few days ago, Yang Xing mysteriously asked them to end the performance tonight and would give them a big surprise.

Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has been fully westernized, and merged the Spring Festival and New Year's Day in accordance with the traditional Chinese lunar calendar into the Japanese New Year. Therefore, after World War II, NHK TV agreed to become the "Japanese Spring Festival Gala" with the highest ratings in Japan with Japanese characteristics. This concert has a very great influence in Japan, and Japanese artists are proud to be on this stage. In recent years, in order to attract overseas audiences, the "Red and White Song Festival" will regularly invite the top other national singers in Asia to perform on stage. Previously, many heavyweight singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan appeared as special guests.

At this time, Japan's world's second largest economic power has not yet fallen. Economic strength determines that the Japanese entertainment industry still occupies the leading position of the Asian entertainment industry. Being able to enter the Japanese and Korean markets with singers such as "Girls Star Age" early on will naturally not increase the popularity of artists in Japan. Due to good cooperation at the China-Japan Song Festival, nhk TV, which attaches great importance to the significance of the "Red and White Song Festival" in the Millennium, also wanted to expand the international influence of this performance. The two sides hit it off, so Star Entertainment launched a full-blown team to bring the team of the New Year's Eve songs with the "Red and White Song Festival" to launch this grand evening tonight.

In recent years, idol singers represented by "The Age of Girls" under Starlight Entertainment have emerged. Their momentum is overwhelming. Their once popular idol singers in Asia, Japan, South Korea and other countries have ushered in a rare development opportunity. Japanese major TV stations such as nhk TV have invited many artists to participate in various performances for several consecutive years. This actually represents the cooperation test issued by the entertainment industry in Japan, South Korea and other countries to domestic entertainment companies such as Starlight Entertainment. In East Asia, an idol trend represented by Chinese culture, "Huali", is beginning to form a climate and spread to the entire Asia and the world.

"Sister, guess what the big surprise he prepared for us?" Ouyang Ting had just painted Tian Yurong's "Starlight Makeup" specially prepared for the "Girls Star Age" group tonight, and immediately asked Ouyang Qian. Her lips and eyebrows moved, and her small face was like a galaxy falling on her face. Starlight shone everywhere under the light, which was very moving. Then Tian Yurong, who was wearing Ouyang Qian, tapped her little head with the eyebrow pencil in her hand and said, "Don't open her mouth, this starlight makeup took me a lot of effort to sprinkle special silver powder on your face. If you remove it, you have to repaint it. It's very troublesome. Now you should have a small mouth shape, keep your image, and don't be crazy. You are about to act in a TV series in Japan, and leave a good impression on the Japanese audience."

Tian Yurong refers to the selection of "Real Persons for Comic Goddess in My Mind" held by several major Japanese comic magazines this fall. "Girl Star Age" was not surprisingly elected as a foreign artist as a foreign artist. But the most surprising thing is that Ouyang Ting and Wen Xiying, the two youngest girls who are not outstanding in "Girl Star Age", surpassed the recognized beauty Ouyang Qian and Chu Qianqian and powerful singer Zhang Hanyan, and became the most voted foreign female stars.

It is said that Yang Xing laughed loudly when he heard this news, "It turns out that Japanese men like loli more!" In fact, although his singing skills are ordinary, Ouyang Ting's childlike appearance has always been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and her age is getting older. She is more and more moving with the charm of a girl and a young woman, and it is indeed fatal to Japanese men. The Japanese side also attaches great importance to this selection result. NHK TV and Japan Toei Film Company decided to invest in a joint film and television set filming drama adapted from the famous Japanese cartoonist Hojo Shin-famous comic "Three Sisters of Cat Eyes". The most important three sisters are played by popular idol actors from China and Japan. Among them, Ouyang Ting is designated to be the leader of the next life love, which marks the first time she has walked out of her sister's shadow and started to take the lead.

Ouyang Ting, whose career has been smooth, is naturally in a good mood. Although she has lost the girl's youth on the outside, the girl's curiosity in her heart has not decreased much. She was very moved by the surprise that Yang Xing spent a long time preparing. Unfortunately, Yang Xing hid it very tightly this time, probably only the secretary around him knew that given that Yang Xing had always been willing to spend money and thoughts to prepare for them, I am really looking forward to it.

Little did she know that Ouyang Qian was also a little depressed when asked. She only knew that Yang Xing seemed to have spent a lot of money to buy some weird things from abroad very early, but she didn't understand the specific purpose at all. It seemed that only Yu Aojun, who was from a mysterious and mysterious background, knew some inside information. "Isn't I too useless to help him?" A thought arose in her heart that she felt weird. She shook her head, got rid of this negative emotion, and still showed confidence in front of her sister, so she asked another thing to divert everyone's attention.

"Sister Tan Li, haven't he been busy suing the American Recording Industry Association these days. As soon as the China Star International World Conference ended, he flew to the United States. Do you have time to come back tonight?" Ouyang Qian asked Tan Li who was waiting for them to finish the performance and picked them up with Yang Xing. At this time, Tan Li woke up from the game world of the player1 concept mobile phone launched by Stardust Communication. She was stunned for a moment before answering: "Don't worry, those guys from Riaa can't do anything to him. This time, they advertised for us again. He will definitely come back and wait for you."

They are talking about the lawsuit filed by the American Recording Industry Association (Riaa) against Xingdong Network on illegal downloads of online music (MP3) that occurred at the end of November this year. With the spread of the free download sharing model of online music, especially after Nebula Electronics launched the MMP digital music player, people can easily download the music on the Internet to MMP without paying a penny. This is a fatal blow to the traditional record industry that relies on selling records to make a profit. Riaa, the most powerful among international music publishers, will certainly not sit idly by.

When MPP was launched in the United States, it encountered obstruction from RIAA. In 1998, Nebula Electronics and Diamond Multimedia Company, which used Nebula Electronics music decoding chips, sued Nebula Electronics to court. However, it was obvious that the US judge had not yet seen the essence of MD music players that MPP and the Japanese were vigorously promoting. In addition, Nebula Electronics guaranteed that at that time, it only provided mp3, WMA and real format songs with copyright and paid downloads on its Xingdong Network, and the corresponding Nebula Electronics only provided these music decoding chips marked with digital labels. The lawsuit ended in a settlement.

However, due to Riaa's reluctance and interest in new media, the lawsuit aroused great interest in the American media. The repeated reports invisibly made a good advertisement for MPP and Xingdong Network. The judgment required Nebula Electronics to ensure the confidentiality of the music decoding chips produced by the company, which was tantamount to acknowledging Nebula Electronics' monopoly position in digital music players.

But the history of digital products proves that any product wants to maintain a closed system with the help of confidentiality is futile. After the judgment, as MPP gradually overwhelms MD's sales, many international manufacturers became interested in MPP, and Nebula Electronics also refused to accept it. To authorize patents and provide decoding chips, many new brands of MPP appeared on the market overnight.

However, when Nebula Electronics provides patents and provides decoding chips, it deliberately raised the cost of adding digital confidentiality tags. Many manufacturers do not want to be controlled by others, and privately cracked the decoding chips, so that their MPP can play almost all digital music formats on the Internet, most of which are pirated music.

The most famous of them is an mp3 download website called napster. Napster is originally a music download software. It can not only find the music you want to download on the Internet, but also make its computer a server and provide downloads for other users. It was only launched in 1998, and it became the main program for downloading music on the Internet in 1999, with 80 million online users! The software published by napster can convert music works from CD to mp3 format, and at the same time it provides a platform for users to upload, retrieve and download works. This is undoubtedly the largest piece of cake in the international record industry, so they launched a fierce counterattack.

In October this year, Riaa, on behalf of the five major international record companies, sued a large number of online music download and MPP manufacturers, such as Napste, Nebula Electronics, and Xingdong Network, believing that they indulged people to download songs on the Internet at will, infringing millions of songs, and each song would be compensated 100,000 US dollars! Public opinion was in a flash, which was considered a classic battle between traditional economic enterprises such as the record industry to challenge new economic enterprises represented by online music, and became the focus of international public opinion at the end of the year.

The news from the United States was not optimistic before. Many people were sentenced to death by Napste, and were worried about the other party, Nebula Electronics and Xingdong Network. No wonder Ouyang Qian mentioned it. Tan Li was already completely awake at this time. She smiled and hugged Ding Wenli, who was still using Stardust Communication, another concept mobile phone, music1, and listened to mp3. "Have you seen that guy panic? Before he left, he told us that this lawsuit can not only help us promote, but also a greater opportunity!"
Chapter completed!