Chapter 1059
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Sony had acquired a few websites that provide MP3 downloads and merged them together under Sony Music. Sony wants to introduce MP3 players and let users pay for the downloads through this website.
However, they had forgotten one thing. The websites that they had acquired were all pirated versions!
"Heitaro Nakajima, don't you know that your MP3 players will be used by consumers to download pirated music?"
Heitaro Nakajima's lawyer stood up and asked calmly. "Opposing counsel, I have a question. Have you ever thrown away a glass soda bottle or a glass wine bottle? "
"I have thrown it away. What's wrong? But I threw it into the rubbish bin! "The opposing counsel replied cautiously.
"Based on our investigation, someone had used a soda bottle as a murder weapon. Can I assume that you have the intention to provide a murder weapon to criminals?"
"You are talking nonsense. How do I know that a soda bottle will be used as a murder weapon?"
"Then how do we know that our MP3 players will be used to download pirated music?" Heitaro Nakajima's lawyer asked.
"Your Honor, all the jurors. I admit that there are some websites that provide pirated music downloads on the internet. But as I had mentioned, we, Aiwa, have a website that provides legitimate music downloads, and we will give everyone who buys our MP3 players a monthly unlimited number of downloads. Also, we had bought the copyright for our music. "
"We have done a good job in protecting our intellectual property. On the other hand, the Recording Industry Association of America had been caught selling unlicensed music from other companies. Please take note of this."
"Oh, I am curious why the Recording Industry Association of America is suing us, a company that provides legitimate music downloads, instead of those websites that provide pirated music downloads. What is the reason for this?"
The Recording Industry Association of America's lawyer was speechless. They reorganized their words and start to refute.
But their rebuttal is useless, and all the jurors are siding with Aiwa. Aiwa's lawyer had pointed out the company that had violated the law, and the Recording Industry Association of America is still not letting them off the hook. They are greedy! "What's wrong?
You all can't find the owners of those websites? As a company that protects intellectual property, we can provide some help. We had found out that those websites used to provide pirated music downloads. Now, they are acquired by a company, and we are trying to crack down on piracy. "
Aiwa's lawyer passed a document to the judge, and the judge looked at the jurors.
The court was adjourned, and the jurors entered a small meeting room to discuss their verdict.
Half an hour later, the jurors made their decision.
"The jury had unanimously decided that the Recording Industry Association of America is not guilty of suing Aiwa for intellectual property infringement!"
Heitaro Nakajima and the rest were calm and didn't celebrate loudly. They had expected this result and didn't think that they would lose.
… …
"Mr. Heitaro Nakajima, the court had ruled that you are not guilty.
"Mr. Yagyuu, I heard you said that you would sue the Recording Industry Association of America for false accusations and ask for a compensation of one hundred million dollars?"
"Mr. Heitaro Nakajima, I heard that you are not happy.
The reporters started to surround Heitaro Nakajima for an interview again. This time, it is not Kameda Masao's reporters. Many reporters came to interview him.
Many people were paying attention to this news. The more people pay attention to this news, the more media will come to report on it.
"The court had ruled that we are not guilty, and all the jurors had voted unanimously. We had expected this, but we are not guilty. That's why we are not happy. I had said that we will sue Aiwa. But my lawyers had discussed and felt that 100 million USD is not appropriate. "Heitaro Nakajima replied calmly.
"Then how much do you all think we should compensate? 1 million USD? 10 million USD? "The reporter thought to himself. You also know that the compensation is not that high?
"No. We want 1 billion USD!"
Wow ~ ~ ~
The reporters below the stage were in an uproar. 1 billion USD. This amount will be the highest amount of compensation this year. It will be one of the highest in the history of business compensation claims.
On the other side, the representative of the Recording Industry Association of America was in disbelief after hearing the news. Is Aiwa crazy? How can they claim such a high compensation? The courts will not accept it.
But now, he had to change the media's focus.
"We, the Recording Industry Association of America, will be suing those websites that provide pirated MP3 audio files. We had collected information on some websites, and this is a list of names. We will claim damages based on the number of downloads. Conservatively, it will be at least 100 million USD! "
Wow ~ ~
The reporters were in an uproar again. They had also proposed such a high compensation. These websites were going to be in trouble.
… …
"President, we are being sued!"
Norio Ohga was reading some documents when his secretary barged into his office. He looked up and asked. "What's wrong? Why are you so anxious? How many times have I told you to be calm?! "
Norio Ohga did not hear his assistant shouting at him.
"President, we are being sued!"
"Huh? Who is suing us? Why? "Norio Ohga frowned and asked. Many people want to sue Sony every year, but most of them are trying to cheat them out of money. Norio Ohga is not worried about this.
As long as the plaintiff is not backed by a powerful country, it will be fine.
"It's that Recording Industry Association of America."
Isn't this company fighting a lawsuit with AIWA? How come they are suing Sony?
"Why?"
"Do you still remember the few websites we had acquired? Those are the websites that provide MP3 audio downloads. They are claiming that our websites provide pirated audio downloads, and this is infringing their intellectual property rights. They want to claim 100 million USD! "Norio Ohga's assistant replied.
"What? 100 million USD?! "
Norio Ohga stood up in shock, and the teacup on the table fell to the floor. He had just told his assistant to be calm, and now, he is not calm at all.
Norio Ohga did not expect Norio Ohga to be sued after acquiring a few websites. That Recording Industry Association of America must be stupid. The websites they acquired do not belong to Sony.
After we bought those websites, we stopped providing pirated audio downloads. Don't they know about this?
Norio Ohga had been waiting to see Aiwa make a fool of themselves. But this time, Sony is the laughing stock of Aiwa.
How can Sony be the scapegoat for piracy?! What a f * cking husky!
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