Chapter 291: Kugou

"By the way, communicate with the major domestic record companies and say that we want to buy their electronic music copyrights."

"Electronic music copyright?"

Li Nan is a little strange: "Now the songs on the Internet don't seem to cost money."

"It's not that they don't need money, but all the songs on the Internet are pirated copies."

Chen Yu was helpless.

Even Li Nan felt that songs on the Internet did not require money. If this continued to happen, it would be useless to ban it in the future.

"We are a regular enterprise, and we must take the lead in using genuine copies. Moreover, the future music website war is actually a copyright war. Once the copyright awareness of the major record companies is awakened, and once the state supports it, whoever owns more music copyrights will win win this battle."

QQ Music in the previous life, NetEase Cloud Music... The reason why they succeeded is that they acquired a large number of music copyrights.

As for Qianqianjingting, who had a great reputation before, after being acquired by Baidu, there was no movement.

The reason for this is that Baidu does not pay attention to copyright.

Similarly, because Baidu did not pay attention to copyright, Baidu's mp3 super traffic business was cut down.

It's not that Baidu doesn't want to do it, it's just that the pressure is too great, and they don't dare to pirate any more.

Of course, this doesn't just refer to music.

In the video website war, it is also a copyright war.

At this time, since everyone is still unaware of copyright, it is completely possible to get a very low price.

"I immediately sent someone to communicate with the major record companies."

Although Li Nan could not predict the future situation, he also understood the importance of copyright.

Once the copyright is really taken seriously in the future, the copyright in their hands will be a huge treasure.

All went well.

After Huanyu Technology came forward to communicate with the major record companies, the major record companies almost did not refuse.

This is not surprising.

The Internet has just developed, not to mention that ordinary netizens have no awareness of electronic music copyright, and major record companies also have some confusion about the so-called electronic music copyright. Coupled with the fact that there are countless sound sources that can be found with a casual search on the Internet, they subconsciously have never thought about electronic music copyrights.

At this time, if Universal Technology wants to buy it, it is simply giving away money for nothing.

Why don't you give away money for nothing?

Of course, despite thinking so, the major record companies are still on guard.

Worrying that Huanyu Technology purchased these copyrights to make physical records, they restricted Huanyu Technology from making physical music records in the terms. For this, Universal Technology said there was no problem. They never wanted to do physical records, they really just wanted electronic music rights.

"Mr. Chen, it's done."

"Great, how much did it cost?"

"50000000."

"so cheap."

Chen Yu was extremely happy.

"When they heard that we were going to buy electronic music rights, they didn't even talk about the price."

"That's right, I won't bargain for this kind of free money."

Chen Yu smiled.

50 million seems like a lot of money.

But 50 million corresponds to about 500,000 songs.

Yes.

According to statistics from relevant departments, there are about 700,000 songs in China.

There are still 200,000 songs, some are in the hands of some small record companies, some record companies have even closed down, and some are in the hands of individuals, which cannot be bought temporarily. However, it doesn't matter, basically more than 99.9% of the popular songs in the world are bought here.

The price of 500,000 songs is 50 million RMB.

In this way, the price of each song is only 100 yuan.

Just not too cheap.

Of course, at present, even if it is 100 yuan, many people and enterprises will not pay.

In their words, there are free ones, so why pay for copyrights?

But Chen Yu was willing to be this idiot first.

Now he can spend 50 million yuan to buy these songs back. In a few years, it is unknown that the songs in the 500,000 music library will be doubled 10 times. Even if it is more than ten years, it is possible to turn it 100 times.

"Oh, how about that scraping net?"

"Bought it."

"So easy, how much did it cost?"

"1000000."

"Only 1 million."

Chen Yu was surprised again.

"Mr. Chen, in fact, 1 million is a lot. This is the price quoted by Xie Zhenyi, the founder of Shouzhao. At that time, he also thought that the price might be too high, and he thought the price was 800,000, but I did not expect that I agreed directly."

"Shouldn't be."

Chen Yu still felt incredible.

Li Nan said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, you don't know that although the traffic on the Souchou.com is huge, it really doesn't make much money. Although everyone goes to the website to search for songs, he can't generate any fees on his own. The business of the company is advertising, but as you all know, Mr. Chen, the simple web advertising model cannot survive even a portal website, let alone a small music website."

"Oh, I'm really poor."

Chen Yu also understood.

Although the Internet makes money, it also makes money.

In the early days, let alone making money, the Internet was simply a bottomless pit.

Even if you are sitting on hundreds of millions of traffic, but the traffic cannot be monetized, you can't escape death.

At that time, QQ was so poor that it was almost sold for 600,000 yuan.

But even now, just in terms of QQ instant messaging, it doesn't make money.

If you can hold on, maybe there will be a sunny day in the future.

If you can't stand it, you can die in minutes.

This suddenly reminded Chen Yu of the video website of Principal Wang in the previous life. With such a large amount of traffic, if it goes out of business, it goes out of business.

It can be seen that although traffic is a beautiful thing, it is useless if you fail to realize the traffic. "

"How many employees on the search.com will come?"

"Mr. Chen, you may not believe that there is only one person running the search network."

"one person?"

"right."

Li Nan took out the information of the founder of Souchao.com: "The founder of Sogou.com is called Xie Zhenyi, who graduated from the Department of Computer Science of Zhongda University. He used to work in technology development at China Merchants Bank, and then he created the Sogou.com by himself. However, the Internet bubble in 2000 almost let The search network went out of business, and only recently received some advertisements, barely able to maintain daily operations.”

"This is really similar to our Huanyu Technology back then."

This reminded Chen Yu of himself.

At that time, Huanyu Technology only had a few people.

"Then will he come?"

The acquisition of this website is small, and what Chen Yu values ​​most is people.

Being able to create a search network and create a technology expert in the search for mp3 audio source mode, Chen Yu naturally wanted to dig him under his banner.

"Come."

Li Nan said: "He said he would come over after a few days of cleaning up."

"Well, call him to my office then."

"Yes."

...

A few days later, Li Nan walked into Chen Yu's office with a man with glasses.

Chen Yu took a look, a typical engineering male + otaku.

"Mr. Chen, this is Mr. Xie Zhenyi."

"This is our President Chen."

"Please sit down."

However, just when Chen Yu thought that the man in front of him was the same as the traditional engineering man. Xie Zhenyi came to Chen Yu in a very enthusiastic trot style, held Chen Yu's hands tightly and said, "Mr. Chen, my admiration for you is like a surging river, and it is like the flood of the Yellow River out of control. …”

"what's going on……"

Chen Yu was taken aback and looked at Li Nan.

Li Nan was also confused, how could he know how Xie Zhenyi would do such a thing.

"Thank you, thank you."

Li Nan coughed heavily.

But Xie Zhenyi smiled: "Mr. Li, really, this is from my heart."

"I didn't expect Xie to always be such a technical expert."

Chen Yu smiled, feeling interesting.

"Mr. Chen, I can't help it. It's very boring to do technology. Every day I stay at home and have to find some fun for myself."

Xie Zhenyi is not like a traditional technical man. In Chen Yu's words, he has a very funny temperament.

This made Chen Yu feel a little cordial.

"Li Nan, get busy first, I'll have a chat with President Xie."

Chen Yu came to Xie Zhenyi and sat down opposite him: "Mr. Xie, how's it going, get used to coming here."

"I'm used to it, I'm so used to it. You don't know how boring it is to build a website alone."

"That's daring."

Chen Yu nodded with a smile: "Did Mr. Li tell you about the current situation on our side?"

"Mr. Li said something, and I'm also thinking about our direction these days."

"Tell me."

"Mr. Chen, I think the legalization of our electronic music is very promising."

"But there are so many pirated copies online now."

"It is difficult to eliminate piracy, but it is quite easy to eliminate a part of it. For example, Swiping.com, this website was created by me before. If the company reports my infringement to the relevant authorities after obtaining the copyright, I will surrender in minutes. ."

"Ha ha……"

Chen Yu was happy.

"Mr. Chen, I'm telling the truth. I'm working on music websites. From the information I have, most of the founders of music websites are doing it personally."

"What about companies doing it?"

"It's even better if there are companies, and sue directly to the court, which is more effective than reporting to the relevant authorities."

"I think so too."

Although Xie Zhenyi didn't look like an ordinary technical man, Chen Yu was very satisfied with Xie Zhenyi's answer.

The copyright is in hand, and how to fight in the future is up to you.

"Mr. Chen, I also made a music player?"

"How did you come up with the idea of ​​making a music player?"

"I think the online music platform has a disadvantage. Although he can search or download various songs from the website, people generally still like to use a music player, like Qianqianjing, although Qianqianjing does not have many functions. , he's just a piece of software that collects music playback."

"Convenience."

"Mr. Chen is absolutely right. Opening the music player is undoubtedly easier than entering the music website."

"It seems that you have already thought about everything. I just don't want you to be the person in charge of our YY music."

Chen Yu made a joke.

"Mr. Chen, the company bought my search network, isn't it just looking for talents who are in charge of music."

"You're quite confident. However, I haven't really considered holding you accountable."

"what……"

Xie Zhen was stunned: "Don't, Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen, let me try it out for a few months. Otherwise, how about I give Kugou to the company for free and give me a good position?"

"You're still haggling in front of me."

Chen Yu was defeated by Xie Zhenyi.

He had never seen such a technical man before.

Just talking about this, Chen Yu seemed to remember something: "What did you say just now, Kugou?"

"What is Kugou?"

"Kugou is the player I just said."

"You developed it?"

"This... yes."

Xie Zhenyi didn't understand, and didn't know why Chen Yu asked so suddenly.