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For a whole week, Xiao Qiang and his group were like desperate, running back and forth between several major Hollywood film companies. He was either angry, threatened, or reasoned, and tried every means to hope that the Film Alliance would open its own side and open the film source library to Universal.

Every film company rejected the request to support CVD without any negotiation and said it would act in accordance with the business rules.

Universal can purchase their movie distribution rights, whether it is wholesale or retail. But don’t even think about it if you want the Film Alliance to support its CD standards!

As for the purchase price, haha. Since the market has the final say, then how much money did Universal spend from MGM? Then, of course, the same price is the same for them!

If Xiao Qiang is willing to spend tens of billions of dollars to purchase a complete source library of land, they don’t care.

Anyway, Hollywood launches hundreds of new movies every year. If Universal is willing to be the sucker, they will naturally be unable to get it.

Over the past six months, American newspapers have been reporting on the Gulf War in a cumbersome way, and have become a little bored.

The heavy casualties of the US military and the rebellion with the Soviet Union were annoyed by the American people. They have heard too much bad news and now want to hear some happy news.

Xiao Qiang hit the walls everywhere in Hollywood. After making a brilliant splash in the American media, he was sent to the United States and readers all over the world.

Including the United States News Network, they are using spicy tone to mock Xiao Qiang for being overestimated. Xiao Qiang

Every time the wall hits, it was revealed by employees of those film companies, and every move he made add more topics to the Americans after dinner.

Some politicians also published articles in newspapers saying that China is different from Japan. Even if Xiao Qiang wants to spend a huge amount of money to buy Hollywood film companies, he must not sell them to him.

Such remarks are still very marketable in the United States, and there are many articles that support him.

All eyes were focused on Xiao Qiang's trip to the United States. Seeing the news that he was repeatedly turned away in Hollywood, countless Americans would laugh endlessly.

He is already too glorious, and people don't want him to become more glorious!

On the 59th floor of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, a staff member walked into the rest room. This is a temporary resting place for association members to smoke and read newspapers at will.

"Mr. Bren, the meeting is about to begin." The staff member politely knocked on the door, reminding a middle-aged man inside.

"Thank you! I'll go here." The middle-aged man Bren threw a stack of newspapers on the table and left the room. The front of the newspaper was a large photo. Xiao Qiang was coming out of the car and facing the camera of the reporter. He tried hard to put on a smile, but the stiff facial muscles exposed his true thoughts.

The newspaper published the title in bold red letters: Ambition is broken!

Bren came to a spacious conference room.

There was a long conference table with arcs at both ends in the middle of the conference room. More than ten people were sitting there waiting for his arrival.

"Sorry, I'm late." Bren nodded to his colleagues to apologize, pulled open the chair of his seat and sat down gently.

The association he works in, called the Commercial Software Alliance, is a non-profit organization whose functions include coordinating the relationships of various commercial software companies, submitting software market reports, and making suggestions on future software developments.

Although it is a non-profit organization, since its members all come from various software giants, its decisions, which are actually the joint decisions of various software companies, have extremely strong influence. At the same time, it actually has a semi-official identity and also plays an important role in influencing government policies.

The software referred to by the Commercial Software Alliance is not just computer software, it covers computer software, movie CDs, cultural products, etc. Its targets are very wide.

The meeting host looked at the number of people. He announced today's meeting content: pirated version.

Pirates are an act that is deeply hated by all software companies.

Moreover, it does not exist only in poor countries. It breaks freely from Eastern Europe under the Soviet iron curtain. Due to the complete collapse of the economy, the piracy problem is the most serious, and there is almost no concept of genuine edition in them. In Europe and the United States, such behavior is still rampant.

The average piracy rate in Europe is as high as 36%, which shows that 36 of the local software and cultural products used by every 100 people are using piracy.

The United States is slightly better in this regard.

According to this year's local survey, the piracy rate in the United States is 21%.

The association is very proud that such a low piracy rate also comes from their strong influence in the government. It is precisely under their continuous appeal that the government is very committed to protecting intellectual property rights.

Once large pirated printing equipment is seized, it will be confiscated. Moreover, the company's operators will be punished extremely severely. Therefore, most pirated software is made of personal behavior and rough production.

However, no matter how severe the crackdown is, it cannot stop piracy. Faced with genuine software that costs hundreds of dollars, even thousands or tens of thousands, there are still some people who are greedy for small profits and are willing to buy piracy.

After all, the sales price of pirated software is only fifteen to twenty dollars!

The content of the meeting was rather boring, and it was nothing more than listing a large number of numbers. The piracy rate in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe was as high as 90%. It made people drowsy.

The Soviet Union and China were unable to control it, and at most it was to protest.

In Eastern Europe, they are not interested in dealing with piracy. Once they are involved in piracy, the Eastern European government will ask the Western group to fulfill their original promises and rebuild their economy.

Only if you are stupid will you care about them!

It’s better to get dividends when their economy develops. Why not do it in one go?

Seeing that most people were unable to get excited, the meeting host knocked on the table: "Gentlemen, cheer up. We just learned about the piracy situation in other places, and we will talk about the focus of this meeting.

We have recently discovered that piracy situations in Europe have risen, such as Germany, Italy, and France. The piracy situation is becoming serious. The piracy behavior in the United States is also deteriorating. Most of the pirated products are computer software. In Europe, the computer software retrieved by governments in various countries has reached 300,000, which is an astonishing number! In the United States, through recent actions, we have also seized tens of thousands of software products.

This time the piracy is different from the past.

In the past, a few of the pirated copies were produced by some underground CD factories, and the rest were usually made by individuals on computers to sell them to make profits. But among the pirated copies this time, we found that most of the members were Eastern Europeans, and a small number of African, Hispanic, and Asian members. Moreover, their organization was more tight and the network was more developed. This situation made us uneasy."

"Sir. Do you mean, those Eastern Europeans are organizing specialized pirated groups?" Bren interrupted.

The host nodded: "That's what I mean. Eastern Europe's economy plummeted, and this time we and the Soviet Union were in a confrontation again. Eastern Europeans are generally afraid that the Soviet Union will retaliate against their betrayal, and there are many people who fled to Europe and our country. They have no skills, and the profits of pirated copies are also very generous compared to them. So, I think these Eastern Europeans are using their domestic technical support to carry out large-scale piracy."

Pirates are indeed huge profits for third-world countries such as Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Mexico, Latin America.

The pirated software of more than ten or twenty dollars is very cheap for people in European, American and Western countries. But for those in areas with monthly income of less than two hundred dollars, it is a coveted huge income.

For this money, they dared to take risks!

Their processing plants are usually in Eastern Europe and other places, and the European and American governments are out of reach and difficult to control. They only need to transport the suppressed CDs to Europe and the United States to obtain large profits, which makes people unable to defend against. It is really a headache.

The members of the association discussed it for a long time, and there was not much solution.

They can only urge the government to strengthen inspections of coastal patrols, customs, and police, and then strive for more severe punishments to deter these guys who are stunning.

"There is another phenomenon," the host looked at the list of topics in front of him. He coughed and said, "I just said that most of the pirated software were seized were computer software. And we found that these computer software were mainly concentrated on the operating system and Internet software. In other words, 70% of the pirated areas were viewwww.piaotian.com.com.    The members of the meeting breathed a sigh of relief, and some people chuckled.

So, the main victim should be Universal Corporation? In addition, Microsoft, which has reached a cooperation with Universal, has also suffered a disaster?

Members of the Association for the long-term anti-piracy have known that the pirated land is usually not more than 30% of the smuggled lands into pirated lands. In this way, in the United States alone, there are hundreds of thousands of pirated lands viewwww.piaotian.com.com     The losses of the China World Company are astonishingly great!

Everyone is a little gloating. They are no longer so enthusiastic about piracy.

It’s best for those Chinese people to make no money even if they don’t make a cent!

However, they did not expect that those pirated copies were private groups, and as financial revenue increased,

Their organizational scale is also expanding rapidly, their organization is becoming more stringent, and the means of fighting against American anti-smugglers are becoming more diverse.

The reason for this behavior is summarized by the Software Alliance, and more importantly, they have technical support.

This supporter was watching a pirated CD in his hotel and his suite.

"This disc is getting more and more beautifully pressed, and is angry with the envelope and instructions.

On his face, he could not see the frustration of running around for the past few days, but instead was full of relaxed and freehand painting.

Lin Yi sat down on a backrest chair, pillowing her chin with her hands on the back of the chair, and said, "I have never seen a boss like you who pirated his own software. How much money will this cost us? Have you calculated?"

"No! There will be no loss!" Xiao Qiang shook his finger with a smile. "Our software has been sold for more than a year, and the customers who want to buy it have almost all bought it. I now sell the operating system and Internet software that is equivalent to no money to those private groups at a price of one dollar. Faced with high profits, they will sell these pirated copies more carefully than us.

To be honest, I am not very satisfied with Bill's operating results. It took more than a year to sell less than two million operating systems.

You know, in the United States alone, there are hundreds or thousands of computer users. This coverage rate is too low.

Of course, I know he has tried his best. After all, this software is still branded as our world and has great resistance to sales. So, I am just helping him achieve his wish to make the view operating system unify the world's personal computer.

Lin Yi didn't know much about these intrigue tricks. She just felt that Xiao Qiang should have other intentions when he did this.

She frowned and thought for a while, her eyes lit up and said, "Do you want to develop and promote our cvd through the pirated market?" The more she thought about it, the more she felt that it was correct. Xiao Qiang would not launch pirated versions sooner or later, but at this time, she sold the pirated software to Eastern Europe. She definitely did not have a kind heart.

"Bingo! You answered correctly. The prize is tonight. I will let you spend a sleepless night!" Xiao Qiang smiled lewdly, and acted to wipe the saliva from his chin.

"Hate! You specifically asked others to come to the United States. It turned out to be a bad idea!" Lin Yi blushed and pulled the pillow on the bed next to her and threw it at Xiao Qiang.

Xiao Qiang laughed and attached the pillow to his hand.

"Although I ask you to come here, I feel guilty because I always can't be by your side because of work. However, if I ask you to come here, it is more important to use you to complete one of my plans."

"What plan?" Lin Yi smiled and pursed her lips, and asked curiously.

"A game is accumulated in one group."

"Compet?" Lin Yi was confused by his jumping thinking and didn't understand what he was talking about.

"It's a game." Xiao Qiangdi came to her side, hugged her slender waist, picked it up, and let her sit on her lap. "Although you guessed it, I want to promote my cvd by pirated version. But others are not fools. If they find that the cvd on the market has not yet appeared, the pirated CDs will fly all over the sky. You say, who will they be the first person they doubt?"

Lin Yi's mind turned around and understood what Xiao Qiang was saying. She thought for a while and said, "The pirated group will not do things without profit. If the American police found a large number of cvd CDs, our suspicion would definitely be the most serious. You want to say this. But isn't this a contradiction? Without the support of the disc, cvd cannot be sold: and no one buys cvd, and pirated CDs cannot appear in large quantities. This forms a dead knot. How do you solve this problem?"

"You will know the answer to this question soon!" Xiao Qiang gradually put his mouth on. Before blocking Lin Yi's red lips, he whispered. "Now, it's time to comfort me in the show these days...

Park Mi-joo is a Korean student with another identity. She is an economics student at the New York National University. As an Asian country deeply influenced by American culture, Park Mi-joo thought she would quickly adapt to life here before coming to the United States and made many American friends. Maybe she could find her prince charming in it.

But she soon discovered that this idea was wrong.

Not to mention the differences in various living habits, there are also differences in the perspectives of thinking about problems. Even the choice of extracurricular leisure projects is very different from her American classmates.

In the past, Park Mi-joo liked to sing karaoke with her friends at night. However, in the United States, she found that there were very few karaoke shops here, only a few in the city center. Moreover, the scale and decoration level were far inferior to those in South Korea.

On several occasions, she also took her American friends to sing karaoke, but they always sat quietly aside. Occasionally, they patted their hands lightly and never sang on stage, even if she forced them up. The singing voice was very small, like a mosquito screaming.

Every time I went to Karaoke, those American classmates just sat for a while and said they wanted to go home, so that she could never have fun.

She also asked these friends why they don’t like singing karaoke.
To be continued...