Actually, according to normal procedures, it would take at least 15 days for the lawsuit to be heard. But this case was a little special.
Because the amount involved this time was too huge.
Hong Dali's smartphone reading app had a daily net profit of more than six million. The longer it dragged on, the higher the amount of money involved in the illegal activities would be. Therefore, this time, the Tianjing Supreme People's Court only took one day from receiving the complaint to the hearing.
The next day, at 9 AM sharp, countless people woke up early and hurriedly washed up. Large numbers of people rushed to the Tianjing Supreme People's Court to listen to this trial of the century.
Passerby A: "Have you heard? Today's trial could be considered the biggest copyright infringement case in recent years! "
Passerby B: "Of course, I saw the news last night. Didn't I come now? Aiya, it's serious this time. It's said that the amount of infringement is huge. It's a few million every day! "
Passerby C: "That's true. I heard that the installed number of Zhong Dian website's smartphone reading app is close to 40 million! In the end, Feng Yun website got jealous and made a pirated version. Sigh, they're really shameless! "
As the passersby discussed, the authors who were summoned by the five Supreme Gods of Zhong Dian website came too.
Author One: "We must win today! Feng Yun website is too shameless. Poaching people, selling copyrights, and now they made a pirated app. We definitely can't let them off easily! "
Author Two: "That's right. Young Master's character is very good! We must support him no matter what! We can't let them get away with it! "
Author Three: "Damn it. Because of this, I came here without updating my book. We must win today!"
Author Four: "Yes, yes, we must win! Brothers, let's go for a drink after we win! "
As the large group of people discussed, the reporters from various websites also moved upon hearing the news. They carried their cameras and used the banners of their websites to gather together, waiting for the court to start.
Soon, it was 9 AM. When the door of the Tianjing Supreme People's Court opened, countless people rushed in, afraid that they wouldn't be able to get a seat if they were late. The court guards were like straws under a sickle. They were instantly pushed around by the crowd. When the order was finally restored, the entire trial venue was filled with people, including the aisles. The 20,000 seats were fully occupied.
Then, the joint trial team appeared. They were made up of eight judges who were qualified to practice law in Tianjing City. They were all people of virtue and prestige. They were expressionless and did not show their emotions. They wore well-ironed judge robes and walked to their respective seats.
The audience started discussing, "Look, look, it's the jury! There were eight of them! One … Two … Three … God, I know six of these people! "" I know five of them. Damn, they're all ruthless people. There's going to be a good show today! " "I know all eight of them. A conservative estimate is that they have tried more than three thousand cases together. They are very experienced! As expected of the Trial of the Century, impressive! "
The eight judges took their seats, followed by the jurors. The lineup was extremely luxurious. Almost all of the upper echelons of Tianjing City were present, as well as rich and famous people from all over the world.
Hong Weiguo, Mu Tie, and Liu Yihui were among them. Energy tycoons, mobile phones, and quite a few members of other families — in short, the jury this time had a total of 40 people. It was enough to break the previous court trial record!
When everyone was in position, the presiding judge on the high platform raised the mallet in his hand and fiercely knocked on the table. "Silence!"
The entire hall was instantly silent.
This case had a huge impact. The judge had to be careful. Very soon, the trial began. "The plaintiff, Zhong Dian website, is suing the defendant, Feng Yun website for piracy. Now, please speak. Next, the plaintiff!"
"Judge!" The plaintiff, Zhang Wenyang, was dressed in sloppy clothes. When he heard that the trial had begun, tears instantly flowed down his face like eye drops. "Judge, you must help me!" He spoke as if he was a commoner from ancient times who was crying out for injustice. "I was originally in Tianjing West Fourth Loop and reluctantly became a small manager. Young Master finally created a client, but this bunch of despicable people with bad hearts copied our client. This has a very deep impact on us, judge!" This fellow spoke as if he was reciting a poem …
When he finished speaking, the audience instantly started to discuss softly.
"It's Manager Zhang from Zhong Dian website. Haha, this fellow is indeed as the rumors say, sloppy like a beggar."
"That's just his appearance. This fellow is really talented. He has great credit for Zhong Dian website to be able to reach where it is today!"
"En, you can't judge a book by its cover. This saying is just right for him!"
When Zhang Wenyang finished speaking, Feng Yun website's lawyer started to loudly refute!
"You're lying, you're framing us!" Feng Yun website's lawyer shouted. "We didn't copy your smartphone reading client! This is all framing, Judge! You can't possibly say that they have a client and we have one too, right?! Our Feng Yun client only has a small part of the same as their smartphone client, but this is a normal collision of source codes between similar types of software. It's not a copy at all! "
When the two of them spoke up to this point, the audience didn't know which side to support.
After all, what both of them said made sense. It was indeed a very normal thing for the same type of software to have parts of the same source codes.
"Actually, what he said makes sense too. There are many similar software. Indeed, it can't be said that the functions are similar."
"Makes sense. Let's see what Zhong Dian website has to say!"
"Silence!" The judge banged his gavel. "Plaintiff, what explanation do you have?"
"Judge, I have a complete analysis and comparison document here." Just then, Zhong Dian website's lawyer said, "This is the final conclusion that our company came up with after carefully comparing evidence and reading the source codes of both parties. Please take a look, Judge."
As he spoke, he took out a document and passed it to the judge.
After the eight senior judges took a simple look at the document, they nodded at the same time. One of them said, "En, the information is written very clearly, and the markings are also very clear. We can send it to the examiner for examination."
Hearing this, Feng Yun's lawyer was very agitated. He shouted loudly, "This is premeditated. You want to tamper with the information!"
Zhong Dian's lawyer coughed and smiled. "Heaven's justice has long arms. You're saying that this is premeditated. You need to show evidence. Don't forget, to prevent you from tampering with the program at the last minute, we specially downloaded your client. The information is all in there. "
Now that things had developed to this stage, Feng Yun website was undoubtedly very passive. As long as the information was true, their faces would undoubtedly be slapped hard.
As expected, that Feng Yun's lawyer and his team's faces were as pale as a bitter gourd.
However, no one expected that when the examiner returned, his voice was very low as he softly said, "Judge, the examination results are out. There are indeed a lot of similarities between the source codes in this information, but …" Speaking up to this point, the examiner slowly shook his head. "It's not 60%. Because, some of the source codes belong to the public source code. Any such program would have it, so it can't be used as evidence. "
Once he said this, the whole place was in an uproar!
Feng Yun website's smartphone Feng Yun app was not 60% similar to Zhong Dian website's smartphone reading client. That meant that they couldn't be judged as a counterfeit!
"Hahahaha, I've said it before. Our smartphone Feng Yun app is completely self-developed. It's not a counterfeit at all!" Once the analysis results were out, Feng Yun website's lawyer instantly laughed proudly and loudly said, "According to Heavenly State's' Internet Piracy Judgment Regulations', Article 183, as long as the similarities do not exceed 60%, it's not considered a counterfeit! So, we're not guilty! "
Once he said this, the audience instantly started whispering to each other. But this time, it wasn't as one-sided as before. "How could it be like this? Could it be that they really didn't make a counterfeit? "" Impossible, if there's no concrete evidence, why would Zhong Dian website sue them? "" I think it's hard to say. Maybe Zhong Dian is jealous of Feng Yun's profits? " "Yes, yes, don't push all the blame to Feng Yun. It might be that Zhong Dian is jealous. You can't say for sure in the business world!"
Hearing the surrounding audience's words, Feng Yun's lawyer secretly gave a thumbs up to someone in the team sitting at the side.
That person looked old-fashioned, wore a grey suit, was about 55 or 56 years old, and looked thin and skinny.
Ordinary people didn't know who he was, but those who really knew were all clear of his extraordinary means!
This person was Toyoda Conglomerate's chief lawyer, Wada Nakamasa!
Ever since he took the fastest private plane to Tianjing last night, his first step was to contact Ko Gohon and then look for all possible loopholes that could appear! In the end, he concluded that since Hong Dali dared to sue them, he definitely had a unique method — changing a small part of the source code of the smartphone reading app!
Although the smartphone reading app had already reached close to 30 to 40 million installations, it was impossible to change a large amount of the source code, but if it was just changing a small part, it was definitely possible! There was even no need to re-download it. He only needed to slightly change a small part of the source code to make it more than 60% identical to the Feng Yun app!
After all, Zhong Dian website registered the patent first, while their Feng Yun app appeared later. There was a time difference, and people would have a preconceived idea and wouldn't suspect Zhong Dian website's app. And in this situation, they indeed didn't have time to verify it, so Wada Nakamasa changed to another method — bribery!
It was bribery! Simple, but very effective, as long as it was done covertly.
And in fact, since he was the chief lawyer of Toyoda Conglomerate, Wada Nakamasa was very familiar with this area — he directly invested 10 million and bribed the entire review team. And his request was very simple. He didn't need to do anything. He only needed to point out that a part of the source code was public source code and couldn't be used as evidence during the trial!
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