Reborn to create a virtual world

That day, Ju Mingfeng left a folder of shameful PLAY photos. The problem is that this guy didn't feel ashamed at all. Instead, because he took such a stack of photos, he might even let go of his mentality and pester Lin Shu. He was asked to do the same, but Lin Shu patted his head and refused.

Ju Mingfeng decided to take the next best thing and asked Lin Shu to take a couple photo.Lin Shu had black lines all over his head, but finally agreed.So he was taken a picture with Ju Mingfeng, who was wearing women's clothes and pouted like a stupid lolita, holding his arm.

I always feel that such a photo can still become black history after 20 years. Lin Shu doesn't understand how Ju Mingfeng can take such a shameful scene without caring... He silently decided to live in his place Mingfeng kept the storage device safe, lest one day the black history would leak out and be ridiculed by the crowd.

Then around the middle of the month, Fetion's game platform was launched for the first time.Lin Shu has been paying attention to the other party's messages, so he bought and downloaded it for a trial immediately.

Then the moment he opened the interface, he felt a strong sense of sight.

As far as the interface is concerned, the various detailed designs are not very similar, but there is a subtle correspondence between the name function and position arrangement of each element and the future system.After Lin Shu played the game for a while, he felt that this correspondence was even stronger.

But the whole concept of the future system is relatively strong originality.There have been various open engines in later generations, so Lin Shu's thinking is relatively broad, not limited to a certain design, but purely integrating the main concept, and finally designed the future engine according to personal preferences.

However, companies such as Fetion currently have no reference objects, so it is almost inevitable that the overall design will imitate the future system.Because it is the only open engine that everyone can access at present, and it is still operating quite successfully, it is very valuable to imitate.

This was something that Lin Shu expected, so he just frowned and didn't have any other special reactions.

But when he started to try more in-depth functions, he discovered the problem of Fetion engine.

The first item of the problem - it imitates almost all the popular general functions of the future engine, including but not limited to the mood tree system, the connection method of the system interface triggered by character skills (in order to avoid conflicts with the story mode, most of the function modules are It is opened on the character skill interface, unlike the plot module, which is mainly triggered on the map interface), and the main plot modes of "Three Kingdoms".

Even the character design can almost correspond to "Three Kingdoms Ideal" one-to-one, and the remaining parts that do not correspond to "Three Kingdoms Ideal" have subtle similarities with other popular game modules on the future platform.

If "Nine Heavens" has a certain degree of adaptation and originality in the process of imitation and reference, Fetion Engine is almost completely plagiarized.The similarity between its engine and the future engine is too high, almost a poor imitation.

...yes, poor quality.

Because the Fetion engine is really bad at the realization of the corresponding functions.His creator is different from Lin Shu. Although Lin Shu spent several months to complete the production of the future engine, he himself has more than ten years of experience in using the corresponding engine model. Numerous failure cases in the development process have been understood, so many problems can be avoided.At the same time, he himself has produced virtual games for many years. Although there is a big gap with plane games, at least he has a deeper understanding of some new concepts that have just emerged or have not yet emerged.

As for the production of the Fetion engine, although the famous Korean production company UV was invited, the experience of the other party is still limited to the old stand-alone and online games at this time, and the thinking is still not broad enough.At the same time, they do not have enough understanding of the existence of open engines, resulting in many designs that are not perfect and often have serious bugs.

However, Fetion also has two things that win over Future Engine - one is the graphics, and the other is the strength of publicity.For the former, Fetion Finance has great potential, and naturally has the ability to find the best painters, the best art artists, and design the best picture effects.In contrast, all the settings and backgrounds of the future platform are actually relatively rough, more like a fan quality.

Not to mention the publicity.Fetion has Fetion communication software as the background, and it has a great advantage in publicity. The future platform has no ability to compare with the other party.

So as the publicity spread, the number of downloads and purchases of Fetion Engine increased at an extraordinary rate, and after more than a week, it directly surpassed Future Games.

Many people also knew of the existence of such a stand-alone game type through such publicity, and quickly became interested in it after the trial, and began to become a user group.

On the first Saturday after the launch of the Fetion engine, Lin Shu held a meeting in Xingze.

Zheng Fangcheng said: "It's a completely shoddy imitation, with as many bugs as a mountain, but many people use it. The influence of Fetion Communications really cannot be underestimated."

Lin Shu replied as fairly as possible: "To be honest, there are currently three Internet companies in my country, all of which have cross-platform and almost monopolistic influence, and Fetion is one of them. In terms of influence alone, we are It can’t be compared with it at all. There are actually similar software vendors in foreign countries, but no matter which one they are, they are not as good as Fetion. Although many people despise Fetion and like to copy, it is a fact that he has strong business operation capabilities.”

But having said that, no one likes a well-crafted item completely overpowered by a knockoff.

Zheng Fangcheng was a little restless, walking up and down in the meeting room, without speaking for a while.

Du Sitong asked, "Can you sue!? This level can be regarded as plagiarism!?"

Lin Shu replied: "I have consulted someone specifically. It is difficult to determine plagiarism cases in games. Generally speaking, plagiarism settings or rules are not legally judged as plagiarism. Only when it involves plot copy, pictures, etc. Plagiarism will only be determined when content such as music material is plagiarized. There is also an act of plagiarizing the source code. These Fetions do not comply, and it is impossible for us to sue the other party for plagiarism.”

Du Sitong suddenly felt as if a breath was choked in his throat and it was difficult to exhale and swallow.

Lin Shu still had something to say.

That is, no matter what kind of game infringement lawsuit it is, even if it wins in the end, most of the costs are high and the compensation is low. After the "Copyright Law" and the "Computer Game Software Protection Regulations" developed into the "Computer Game Software Protection Law", it will take a full seven years, and in between, whether it is music, novels, TV dramas...etc. Copyrights have already been protected by copyright one step ahead, only the protection process of game copyrights has always been difficult.

In essence, this is not a legal issue, but the carrier of the game itself is difficult to judge the scope of its copyright.Leaving aside the difficulty of proving evidence, the most important thing is that even if the lawsuit is won, the final compensation awarded by the court may not be able to obtain appropriate compensation for the original copyright owner—the possibility of a serious injury is more likely.

Lin Shu didn't want to go to court with Fetion at all—this kind of big company usually has its own political protection, just like his Xingzhe after many years.A large company that pays hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes a year and solves the job problems of tens of thousands of people naturally has different treatment from ordinary small companies.

This kind of big company, unless their existence itself has hindered social development, the government will even take the initiative to erect a protective umbrella for them... There is no chance of winning a lawsuit against this kind of company, even if they really win, in the end It's hard to say who was hurt.

Lin Shu still vaguely remembers that Fetion was hit hard in the end a few years later, and there were actually many reasons for it.The country's copyright wars in recent years are actually step-by-step-music sources, Japanese animation, original novels, film and television works... It hit several large Internet companies in the middle.

But if someone observes carefully, he will find that every step of these actions is actually deliberate.The copyright battles of music sound sources and animation works are also accompanied by the historic process of related domestic industries entering the world market.The normalization of the copyright of original novels is accompanied by the reorganization and promotion of the cultural industry.The normalization of the copyright of film and television works is also accompanied by the process of anti-export to Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States.

After the economic downturn in the past two years, in order not to be brought into the quagmire of economic crisis by developed countries such as Europe and the United States, the country began to depreciate the renminbi on the one hand, trying to re-raise the foreign trade situation, and on the other hand began to invest in the cultural and technological industries. It is hoped that my country's main foreign exchange income can be gradually transferred from simple and crude human output to more technical and cultural industries.

And under such a premise, the government can resolutely rectify a large number of large Internet companies, so as to scare the chickens and monkeys, standardize a large number of related websites, and promote the normal and healthy development of the entire industry.

Lin Shu thought for a long time and thought that this time was not the best time yet.If you want to attack Fetion, at least you have to wait until the policy starts to tilt towards non-Fetion enterprises.There should still be multiple opportunities for this - one is when the government starts to rectify the online literature industry.Fetion’s background is indeed great, but its acquisition and integration of Kuaishu is quite risky, because the current situation is that in the palm-sized porcelain bowl, only it is a huge and delicious lobster, and the rest is only Under the small shrimp.Jinjiang is barely a small river prawn, but it has undergone a rectification two years ago, which is a bit overkill.The most important thing is that Jinjiang has been trying to export culture overseas during its operation, which itself is in line with the government's expectations for the future cultural industry, so there is no danger at present.

Compared with Jinjiang's trembling, Kuaishu, who has a strong background, is far more daring.

The major websites under the name of Kuaishu have always chosen more novel themes than Jinjiang, but their copyright management is much more relaxed and indulgent than Jinjiang.They do not prohibit players on the same site from following each other, imitating, borrowing, and even supporting each other.

After such a hot topic appears, the market will quickly capture it, and then develop, utilize and consume it as soon as possible.Although the life of the theme may be lost to a certain extent, the website can take this opportunity to develop hot themes to the maximum extent and obtain hot money.

Generally speaking, not to mention the authors and readers themselves, for the website, the advantages of this approach outweigh the disadvantages.

Although the short lifespan will lead to aesthetic fatigue before the subject matter itself has been fully explored, it can take advantage of the number of online writers in large quantities.In many cases, as a writer, you don't need to think too much, as long as you follow the existing successful examples, you can get rewarded faster.And readers can also read a lot of related content while becoming interested in a subject. If there is enough food to eat, everyone is happy, right?

Many people even think that this kind of timeliness is what online articles pursue.

Lin Shu does not deny this, at least not at this time.However, he knows one thing - after 20 years, the well-known authors who become famous in the Internet literature circle are often mentioned and regarded as classic works, and they all follow such "following trends" and "hot themes". It doesn't matter.

As a result, when Fetion had an accident four years later, their influence in related industries was far less than expected.

Lin Shu pondered for a long time, but still couldn't remember how several international companies won the lawsuit against Fetion.He only remembers two points—one is that the lawsuits against Fetion by several companies were launched almost simultaneously, and at the same time, it was accompanied by political pressure.At that time, the export of domestic and foreign culture was increasing, and the two TV series adapted from Jin Jiang’s novel swept across Southeast Asia again. Games such as "Jian Wang III", "Nine Heavens" and "Road to Stars" were captured in Europe, America and Asia in the next few years. A lot of real money, but Fetion has never made any great achievements.Its business scope has always remained domestic, because from its core software itself to various game programs under its name, there are too many traces of imitation and infringement, which are not recognized by foreign countries.Second, the development of Fetion software itself has encountered a bottleneck.Although at this time many people believed that Fetion was going to develop into online literature, and Fetion also spent a lot of time and energy on this, but there were many problems in its system and development direction itself, which led to the fact that when the country began to support copyright in the later period, it was not Ting suffered all kinds of expected but unexpected lawsuits, which eventually caused a serious loss of vitality.

At that time, the pressure on Fetion mainly came from two aspects, one was the contract aspect.Later, many people called the contract the overlord clause, because there were a lot of contract traps in it, which was very unfavorable to the author, but due to Kuaishu's position in the industry at this time, he had to sign it.Another aspect is the antitrust lawsuit.

We must know that until this time, domestic anti-monopoly or anti-plagiarism laws and regulations are almost useless.The law is there, but most people neither care about it nor think much of it.If someone asks about it, many people also think very disapprovingly that the law does not blame the public.

But does the law really not blame the public?Lin Shu felt that many people did not understand the premise that the law does not blame the public.

He pondered for a moment, then said to Zheng Fangcheng, "Let's sue Feixin."

Zheng Fangcheng: "!?" He was obviously surprised and asked, "Didn't it mean that the winning rate is not high?"

Lin Shu smiled and said: "Who knows about this kind of thing? Maybe we will win the lawsuit? After all, it is the court's decision whether to win or not in this kind of lawsuit. But whether you want to fight or not is up to you." It's our own choice."

"Nowadays, the country is pursuing copyright. No one can judge that we really can't win this lawsuit. But even if we really can't win, as long as people keep fighting, we will win one day."

Zheng Fangcheng didn't understand, but Ju Mingfeng understood what Lin Shu meant.

Fetion in the previous life was not defeated by a lawsuit.It was dragged down by various lawsuits one after another.

However, Lin Shu did not make such a decision blindly.In fact, he felt in his heart that if he fought this lawsuit, generally speaking, the advantages would outweigh the disadvantages.

First of all, this lawsuit can be used as a means of publicity to show that we are the original creators of the open platform. It is rather to use the publicity of the Fetion engine to attract some people’s attention to Lin Shu’s website and make a difference. The usual free publicity.Secondly, Fetion has "imitated" habitual offenders for many years. Many conglomerates are jealous of their family's big business, and worry that similar prosecutions will rarely be pursued, so few people sue.

Sometimes it's the early bird who can always eat the most.

The country is currently grasping copyrights, promoting genuine editions, and trying to sort out the patent and copyright markets, so Lin Shu feels that the more lawsuits filed during this period, the easier it is to attract attention and attract a wide range of discussions.In this atmosphere, they are actually the easiest to win the case, because for the sake of market orientation, if they win in terms of political stance, it will be the most beneficial for the implementation of current policies in this regard.

Of course, the premise is that they are fully prepared when they sue, and they will kill with one blow.

With this in mind, Lin Shu said to Zheng Fangcheng: "We will make three preparations and sue them for plagiarism, monopoly, and vicious competition respectively. Then we will try our best to contact the media we can contact to publicize this matter vigorously. In addition, if Fetion did not respond, so we asked the navy to stir up this matter. Not only the platform, but also their title of "inertial plagiarism" and their title of "a benchmark for plagiarism in China" . Make it a big deal—the bigger the deal, the more people pay attention to it, the more likely we will win."

It took Zheng Fangcheng some effort to understand what Lin Shu meant.Lin Shu wanted to take political speculation, taking advantage of the current political tendency to support copyright and originality, and took the initiative to push his lawsuit to the point where he could set a benchmark.

Lin Shu knows the historical trend and knows that the government will further rectify the market in a few years, but he doesn't think he needs to wait.Anything you expect to happen, you can't just wait for it.You have to do your part.

So Lin Shu decided to detonate the possible copyright lawsuits and anti-vicious competition lawsuits in a few years' time—he didn't care about being the first spark to fly away at all.The current political trend is basically clear. Although the timing is a little earlier than in the previous life, Lin Shu does not believe it. If he prepares everything, he will hand over the perfect chicken that the government can kill chickens and monkeys. Officials will not seize this opportunity.

Fetion's chicken is a bit too big and fat, and the official may not be willing to eat it, but the basic posture should still be displayed.After all, compared with the guidance of social policies, no matter how large a tax-paying enterprise is, it is nothing more than an enterprise.

And once this hole is opened, it is up to Fetion how the situation will develop next.It can be said that at the moment when the first lawsuit was lost, Fetion's future fate was already doomed.

It doesn't matter if you lose, because Lin Shu doesn't care about fighting a war of attrition.If he lost, or if the compensation was not enough to hurt Fetion, Xingze appealed and appealed, and kept hyping up the topic.Fetion imitated their products, and they used Fetion's influence to attract a large number of potential audiences from Fetion...Whoever loses wins, whoever takes advantage and who suffers, no one knows until the end.

Afterwards the routine is to go to school.Then on the next weekend, Lin Shu was surprised to find that Ju Mingfeng was analyzing Fetion's game, and he didn't know who was directing what to do through the chat software.

After Lin Shu observed carefully, he discovered that Ju Mingfeng was actually looking for a system bug in the calculation method of the module interface in the Fetion engine.But what he instructed others to do was to let them imitate the most popular modules of the future platform and make similar modules based on the Fetion engine.

Fetion's engine imitates future games very hard, but they do not have a corresponding understanding and grasp of the open platform, which leads to many imitation elements not being in place.However, UV's own technology should not be underestimated. In fact, if they only grasp the concept of an open platform and make this engine system in a way they are good at, although it is difficult to reach the level of the future platform in all aspects, it will attract players and create It is also very possible to develop another model of openness engine.

In Lin Shu's memory, there are many kinds of open engines, and the one he made is just one of them, and it is a kind that has been largely castrated and innovated according to his situation and ideas, combined with his own experience in making games later. .

However, Fetion doesn't know whether they have long been used to benefiting from imitation, or they are too unconfident in their own creativity. In short, they chose to imitate the future platform.

This also gave Ju Mingfeng a chance.No matter from which angle you think about it, how can a counterfeit compare with the original?

So he wants everyone to see where the gap between the two is.He spent some time analyzing the Fetion platform - the strength of this company has always been in business operations rather than in technology openness, so Ju Mingfeng cracked it relatively smoothly.

After cracking it, he reorganized the entire program, and found many unreasonable places in design and calculation.He carefully studied the possible results of each BUG, ​​and then hired some people to imitate the main mods of future games and make games under the condition that these BUGs can be used to the greatest extent.