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Chapter 731 Kill the chicken to warn the monkey

Paul Vidic rubbed his swollen brows, listening to Doug Morris' cursing, and thinking about some Sony Music president Motura, which made Vidic vigilant.

Several major record groups seem to have a bright future, but in fact, they are about to fight with each other.

For today's meeting, Paul Vidic originally wanted to bring together the five major record groups, but in the end, only the three giants of Universal, Warner and Sony Music participated in this conference call.

Because among the giants in the recording industry, there are also camps and territories. Germany's BMG and England's EMI belong to overseas record groups and have always been eyeing the American record market. Warner and Universal have often fought with the two.

And even Warner, Universal, and Sony Music, the three local American record groups, have their own camps. For example, Sony Music's big sponsor is Japan's Sony, which makes Warner, Universal, and Sony Music also have a gap.

Facing Paul Vidic, he invited the five major record groups to negotiate a conference call to resolve the troubles of Internet music platforms. Focus on America, because the Internet industry in America is developing the fastest and has the most users!
In contrast, the Internet in old Europe developed slowly, but is now least affected by Internet music.

At this time, BMG and EMI may also hope that the Internet music platform will fight more fiercely with Warner, Universal, and Sony Records, and then they will occupy the American record industry without bloodshed...

"The most important thing now is to solve the troubles. The emergence of Scour, Napster and other music websites has brought us troubles. We need to stop them and continue to "steal" the record industry!

Warner Music's revenue in the latest quarter has fallen by more than 3%! "

Paul Vidic said that compared to Morris and Motura in today's meeting, his pressure is actually much greater.

It is no secret that Time Warner, the parent company of Warner Records, is in a hot fight with AOL. Paul Vidic heard the news from the headquarters executives that the merger between Time Warner and AOL seems to be only a price difference. It's hard to say who will merge and who will be acquired, but this matter seems to have come true...

Once Time Warner and AOL are merged, everything will change. At that time, Warner Records will face a new headquarters and board of directors. If Warner Records’ performance suffers, Paul Vidic is likely to be the scapegoat, so he is Most anxious.

"Currently, Scour and Napster alone have more than 8000 million users. If you expect them to change by themselves, it is impossible. Scour also wants to log in to Nasdaq!" Motura, who was silent for a long time, finally It's the opening.

Listening to Motura's words, Paul Vidic and Morris all heard his overtones, that is, not preparing, and talked with Scour and other websites, and immediately prepared to start the film.

This is also in line with Motura's personality, he always does things neatly without leaving any trouble,
When dealing with opponents, he has always been extremely ruthless, and this time he obviously wants to give Scour a hard time.

Universal's Morris agreed with Motura's proposal, "We need to unite with the Recording Industry Association RIAA, the Recording Artists Federation, and all record companies to launch a war against Scour!"

Paul Vidic listened to the words of the two, and knew that they wanted to "kill chickens and monkeys", kill Scour, and teach other Internet music platforms a lesson, so that they would not dare to play pirated music again.

But Pandora's box has been opened, Scour is dead, so don't users listen to MP3 music?
Paul Vidic is skeptical about this. He doesn't know how long Motura's thunderous means can hold down the Internet music platform.

"What if we cooperate with Saipan Music Store?"

Just when Morris and Motura were discussing how to file a lawsuit with Scour and kill each other, they suddenly heard Paul Vidic's words, which made their voices stagnate.

The Saipan Music Store plays genuine music, and it has been like this since the day it opened. Paul Vidic knew that the Saipan Music Store must have sought cooperation from Universal and Sony Music.

They hadn't considered cooperating with the Saipan Music Store before. Apart from worrying that the other party was unreliable, the other was the competition between physical records and digital music. Once the copyright library was opened to the Saipan Music Store, the CD , Vinyl records, DVD discs, tapes and other record sales will definitely decline, and there will be fewer dollars in hand. This is the most worrying thing for several major record groups.

But now, seeing that digital music is flooding, no one knows whether it will be effective to choose a platform to play genuine digital music at this time.

However, Paul Vidic, Morris, Motura and others have all heard of the Symbian music store, the "ring back tones" business in cooperation with Alcatel Mobile and America Telecom.

Only relying on some "old" and "outdated" songs, I heard that the CRBT songs have been sold out, and some bands and singers have started to get dividends from the CRBT business from the Saipan Music Store. Small record companies, singers, and bands with music copyrights in their hands are all ready to move. After all, who would really have trouble with Meidao?
There are a lot of record practitioners who criticize digital music. Websites like Scour use the copyright of their songs without paying a penny. Who wants to be prostituted for nothing, but the Saipan music store gets their music The copyright is really divided among them. As long as they can earn a dollar, many people will curse, but in private they are willing to contact the Saipan Music Store...

"The recording industry, to the point where it is today, is inseparable from the Saipan Music Store. I have heard rumors that the sponsor of the Saipan Music Store once supported the Scour website!"

Motura was the first to object, and he was unwilling to let the record industry cooperate with Saipan Music Store. Other record companies can, but Sony Music cannot!

The ass decides the head. As soon as the Alcatel P2 mobile phone came out, the sales of Sony's Walkman were most directly affected, and it immediately began to cut in half.

Music mobile phones have dealt a huge blow to the sales of Walkmans. It is no wonder that Sony has a good impression of Alcatel mobile phones. You must know that the Walkman business has always been the cash that will lay golden eggs in Sony’s hands. The cow is now being tossed half to death.

At this time, Sony Music is going to cooperate with the Saipan music store under the "Culprit". Motura doesn't think that his position as the president of Sony Music is too secure, and his salary is too high...

Hearing Motura's objection, Morris, who was hesitant to speak, also kept silent at this time. Today's record conference call has basically been finalized. The three major record groups have joined forces to launch a war against Scour and other websites. Making a decision basically represents the will of the entire American recording industry!
After hanging up the phone, Paul Vidic looked at a business card in his hand. He is the general manager of the Symbian Music Store, and is also the person in charge of the Symbian Software Store and Symbian system. He has just been appointed as the vice president of Alcatel mobile phones. Hobrow's business card.

Before, Hobrow talked with Paul Vidic about wanting Warner Records to cooperate with the Saipan Music Store with the copyright library, but the two sides failed to negotiate.

Paul Vidic didn't know, even if several Scour websites were killed, would it really be able to solve the problem of digital music and the troubles of the recording industry?
Thinking of this, Paul Vidic was even more troubled. Now, he finally realized why the traditional media avoided the Internet like snakes and scorpions in the past two years, and scolded the Internet media. Now it is the turn of the record industry , Paul Vidic really felt that the Internet is changing all traditional industries.

Song Yang is also very busy in San Jose. Alcatel mobile phone, Symbian music store, Diamond MP3, no one knows how far the record industry will go.

Song Yang just wants the Saipan music store to have more copyright databases, and the Alcatel mobile phone to sell more. The butterfly's wings flap, and the result is that the entire record industry is in chaos.

After returning from the construction site of the new villa, Song Yang saw Irene who had been waiting there.

(End of this chapter)