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On October 1, an MP3 music sharing website appeared on the Internet. mp3, users can listen to music for free on the site. If you download, you need to pay 10 music coins.

Music Coin is an original network currency of MP3 music sharing website. After logging in and signing in, users can get 1 music coin. If they upload music and pass the review, they can get 100 music coins. The music coins of MP3 music sharing websites are mainly used to pay for downloading music. If you accumulate more music coins, you can also exchange for physical albums! ! !

Ten thousand music coins can be exchanged for a record. In other words, as long as you upload 100 songs successfully, you have to get a physical album! ! !

However, the auditing mechanism of MP3 music sharing websites is very strict. If the quality of the uploaded music is not good or the website already exists, it will fail!

It didn't take long for MP3 music sharing sites to become popular on the Internet. Not only can users listen to music, but many users upload music crazily, hoping to get a physical record. Especially the websites that made pirated music by themselves before, they have a lot of resources, hundreds of thousands of pieces of music are considered trivial. So, after a week, the MP3 music sharing website did not spend much effort to collect music, because other pirated websites uploaded their own music to the MP3 music sharing website, and got more than 10,000 pieces of music in total!

The MP3 music sharing site only needs to pay 100 albums. If the MP3 music sharing site uploads music by itself, it will cost more. First, you have to buy the record back, then convert it and upload it online. A record has about ten songs, and others have to upload a hundred songs to get a record. After a calculation, the MP3 music sharing website can save 90% of the record cost, and save a lot of labor costs! ! !

The point is, by exchanging music currency for physical records, you can make a name for the website! ! !

It is not good for music lovers to upload music on other pirated sites, but there are opportunities to exchange physical records on MP3 music sharing sites, so why doesn't he upload music on MP3 music sharing sites?

In just a few weeks, the MP3 music-sharing site became the king of pirated music. The traffic to the website has also greatly increased, and the advertising price has soared!

At this time, the major record companies began to clamor, saying they would sue MP3 music sharing sites.

The MP3 music sharing website said: The MP3 music sharing website does not upload a piece of pirated music, it is all uploaded by the users themselves, and it is none of our business!!! Because the current legal system of Internet piracy is not perfect, MP3 music sharing Websites take advantage of loopholes and play rogues, and major record companies have no way!

If the MP3 music sharing website uploads pirated music by itself, the major record companies can sue it confidently, but it has not uploaded a single pirated music, how can you sue? It is the vast number of netizens who upload pirated music, you should sue them! ! !

What? You said that MP3 music sharing website provides the function of file uploading? Hehe, many websites on the Internet now provide the function of uploading files. Are they all infringing?

Major record companies are very helpless and can only hope that California law can formulate corresponding Internet piracy regulations as soon as possible!

However, the formulation of laws and regulations is not that simple. It takes a year and a half to go through layers of discussion, analysis, and a final vote. Don't even think about introducing a new piracy law!

When the new piracy law is introduced, the day lily will be cold, and the record company will suffer huge losses!

So, taking advantage of this time, Henry sent someone to the record company to discuss cooperation. The condition given by Henry is that the record company authorizes Tiantian Music Company to own the music network copyright, one is a buyout, and the other is a share. In the case of a buyout, it is divided into five levels: A, B, C, D, and E according to the popularity of the song. Among them, A is the lowest, and the buyout price is $10; E is the highest, and one hundred thousand dollars! If it is divided, it can only be under the banner of Tiantian Music Company. The download volume of each song on the mp3 website is divided into 40% by Tiantian Music and 60% by the record company. . The mp3 website will open an exchange system for music coins and U.S. dollars. One U.S. dollar is exchanged for 100 music coins.

Williams Bank will participate in the cooperation, open online banking services, and support this exchange system! When Henry acquired the bank, he had already prepared to open the online banking service. However, neither the scale nor the timing was right. this time. The mp3 website is ready to open the exchange of music coins and US dollars. Williams Bank is a small test, first mix some experience, and then promote it on a large scale!

Facing the conditions given by Henry, some small companies had to agree to cooperate with Tiantian Music Company in order to survive.

But powerful record companies did not agree so easily.

They only promised to buy out the old songs that were unsellable and worthless to Tiantian Music Company, but not the new ones, and even asked for it. The more popular songs are removed from the mp3 website! 10 music coins are only equivalent to 1 dollar, and ten songs are only 10 dollars. And record companies can sell a record for tens of dollars. Obviously, selling records is more profitable. not to mention. The mp3 website also extracts 40% from it. How could the record company agree to cooperate with Tiantian Music?

No rabbits, no eagles! Without the benefit of seeing is believing, the record company would obviously not readily agree to cooperate with Tiantian Music.

Therefore, Henry can only find a way to let the record company see the real benefits now!

Later, under Henry's instruction, ICQ CEO Tian Shuai announced: ICQ officially filed an application for acquisition of Tiantian Music!!!

A few days later, Tian Shuai, CEO of ICQ, held a press conference and announced: ICQ has completed the wholly-owned acquisition of Tiantian Music at a cost of US$5 million. The mp3 website is now owned by ICQ! In addition, ICQ The company is about to launch the Tiantian Music client, everyone is welcome to download and use it!”

Henry did not reveal his identity, so from the outsiders' point of view, Tiantian Music Company did not have a backstage before, though. mp3 sites are growing fast, but wait. It will take at least one or two years for the mp3 website to develop a huge amount of traffic that can bring sufficient benefits to the record company, and within this time or two, my record company will definitely lose a lot of money! ! ! Therefore, record companies are reluctant to cooperate! Because of this, when Tiantian Music Company found a record company, they put on airs, pretended to be the boss, and bullied others. Well, Henry has now found a big backstage for it - ICQ company.

Under the implementation of the one-stop plan, a large number of Internet cafes have sprung up in the United States, which has brought tens of millions of Americans who have access to the Internet! Today, the number of registered users of ICQ has exceeded 9 million, and almost one of those Internet veterans is in hand. With such a hanging company under the hood, what the record company says must be weighed!

Import huge traffic from ICQ company. mp3, there must be many record companies will be excited! ! ! (The new week is here, please recommend and collect! There are also Sanjiang tickets!!! The author has established a book group: 424930141, everyone is welcome to join...)