My Age of Investment

   Chapter 691

  The next day, early in the morning.

  The little dog hurriedly smashed open the door of Xia Jingxing’s temporary office, and as soon as he entered the door, he said excitedly: "Boss, Murdoch old tortoise has finally taken action!

  News Corp. suddenly held a press conference in Los Angeles this morning. The scene was overwhelming. It is estimated that hundreds of media were invited to the scene to witness.

  At the meeting, News Corp took out the so-called "evidence"-a hard drive, which contained a lot of videos that we had offline.

  The spokesperson of News Corp. listed the various crimes of YouTube and Facebook, saying that we defy US law and disrespect intellectual property rights, destroy the industry ecology, and cause huge economic losses to News Corp..."

  The little dog danced and gestured as if he was on the scene, portraying the scene vividly.

   Gu Jing Wubo on Xia Jingxing’s face, he was not surprised by the news, because he had been prepared accordingly and was waiting for this day to come.

  And he also predicted that Murdoch would act in the next few days, because Redstone and others had leaked many of Murdoch’s blending plans to him in order to sell better than him.

  Now, the five giants can more easily get tangible benefits, and they don’t plan to follow Murdoch to engage in lawsuits and blackmail.

  Murdoch is not a stupid person, and most of them are aware of it, knowing that the five teammates with ghosts in their own hearts can't be counted on.

  At this point, even though News Corp. is the only one involved, they have to bite the bullet and have to do it.

   And if the lawsuit is lost, you won’t lose a piece of your skin. If you win, there are many benefits. There is no reason not to stick to it.

  "A hard drive?"

  Xia Jingxing noticed an interesting thing, which shows that Murdoch has not been idle in gathering evidence these days except for blending around.

  This is at least stronger than Powell who took out a tube of washing powder reagent a few years ago.

   "Yes, it's the hard drive. It should be Murdoch specially looking for someone to download and save all the videos related to News Corporation's copyright on the tubing before we take down the video."

  Xia Jingxing nodded, this matter cannot be denied, even if Murdoch does not send someone to download the video, there are other ways to prove that there have been related videos on the YouTube platform where the copyright belongs to News Corporation.

  After all, there are more than 200 million users of the oil pipe, it is impossible to block the mouth of everyone at Yoyo.

   "Okay, I see, is there a live video of the press conference?"

  The little dog looked down at the watch, “The press conference is about to end, wait a moment, and the on-site staff will send us a complete video as soon as it is over.

  Today’s past media, in addition to the more than one hundred TV stations and newspapers under News Corporation, there are also some externally invited media. Two of us are old friends. "

   "Okay, you will let me know. When the video comes over, we will have a meeting together."

  Xia Jingxing paused, and then said: "Oh, remember to call the people from Jones Day Law Firm."

Jones Day Law Firm was established in 1893 and has 44 offices around the world, specializing in litigation, transaction, regulatory and tax affairs, antitrust and competition law, banking, finance, commerce, network security, and global corporate disputes. , Ranked among the top ten commercial law firms in the United States.

  Although the six Hollywood giants have been divided and disintegrated, and the pressure that may be faced in various aspects has been minimized, Xia Jingxing still did not take it lightly. The lion fights the rabbit, and also uses his best. He still spends a lot of money to hire the top lawyer team.

  Of course, Mr. Gates will pay for all this.

After the dog left, more than half an hour later, the administrative staff called Xia Jingxing's office and told him to go to the conference room for a meeting.

  When Xia Jing walked into the meeting room, the executives and shareholders of Facebook and YouTube had gathered together.

  The huge display screen hung in the meeting room is beginning to play the complete video of News Corporation’s press conference today.

  He nodded to everyone, and sat down in an empty position near the screen.

"Since the day it was born, YouTube’s business model has been original sin. It uploaded the results accumulated by other film and television companies over decades at will. The copyright owner did not receive a cent of copyright fees. Relying on the profits from selling advertisements is full. According to reliable sources, Tubing’s revenue in the last twelve months has exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars..."

"Naturally, we passed through the YouTube channel! Initially sent a letter to them, intending to negotiate this matter amicably. However, the management of the YouTube channel has always been perfunctory, neither reaching a copyright cooperation agreement with us nor removing the related infringing videos, or It was taken off the shelf, and it will be back up again in a few days."

"For this start-up, Mr. Murdoch has always been tolerant and well-intentioned, but his friendliness has become the perpetrator's confidence to trample on the law again and again. In the end, we decided to take up legal weapons and maintain Own legitimate rights and interests."

   "In this long-term infringement incident, Facebook also played an accomplice of YouTube. They used the convenience of social networks to make the spread of pirated content more widespread."

  ……

  On the screen, the spokesperson of News Corp. showed various evidences to the media, and then he took out a table with detailed statistics on the various losses of News Corp.

  There are so many different things, so I almost wrote the rent and utility bills.

  Finally, a News Corp spokesperson stated that it had formally sued Facebook and YouTube in the federal court, claiming each of the two websites for $1 billion in economic losses.

   "Fak..."

After reading   , Facebook CTO Evans directly exploded a long series of foul language.

   "Two billion U.S. dollars. Our two companies have never made so much money since their establishment. Even the revenue figures are far behind this amount..."

  A leading middle-aged lawyer of Jones Day Law Firm smiled and waved his hand, “Please don’t get excited, we have seen too many cases like this. The amount of compensation is not important, what matters is the outcome of the lawsuit.

  We have thoroughly analyzed this case, and the odds of winning are great.

  The existence of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is extremely beneficial to Facebook and YouTube.

  Of course, there are also some things that are not good enough, and the speed of removing videos is not so timely.

  This is also a point that News Corporation is clinging to, and they believe that Youtube has developed a system to identify pirated content, which is clearly capable of blocking illegal content, but deliberately ignores it.

  In the court defense session, this should be a point for them to attack us. "

  The lawyer is very professional. In front of Facebook, YouTube, the executives, and shareholders, he comprehensively analyzed the entire case, including the evidence of the opponent's reliance, and made statements about the points that he relied on and were easily attacked.

  Xia Jingxing nodded. From the perspective of normal procedures, this case is not particularly complicated. There are many things that can be torn off. Facebook and YouTube will not be unable to parry.

  The lawyer reminded: “In addition, I would like to emphasize that News Corporation is a media empire, and it needs to beware of their launching public opinion attacks and interfering in judicial judgments. It is unconstitutional for the court to issue a blocking order to the media, and freedom of speech is greater than anything else.”

  Xia Jingxing slumped, and freedom of speech is a fool. In this regard, Chuanbao must have something to say.

   “There are many cases where public opinion affects judicial decisions, such as the Rodney King incident more than ten years ago.”

Xia Jingxing knew about this case. It was very famous. It was similar to Freud's. It was also a story of a white policeman and a big black. Then it caused a big riot. The big blacks came out for zero-yuan purchases, beat them and set fires, causing a few deaths and injuries. Thousands of people, the flames of the entire Los Angeles were dyed red.

  The instigator is the media that chopped off the "police beating" video. In order to pursue eyeball economy and market value, it does everything possible.

   "Of course, Darren, your affairs may not be able to scratch the G point of the people's emotions, but recently you still have to be careful not to give your opponent a chance to make a big fuss."

  The lawyer’s reminder is very reasonable. People die for money and die for food. News Corp., which can even eavesdrop on high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and the royal family, can’t be described as daring.

  If you were Murdoch, how would you wield the public opinion stick?

  Xia Jingxing was lost in thought.

  (End of this chapter)