"But we will get the market. A market worth more than 1 billion USD!" Idei said proudly.
"It's the market!" Boss Jia nodded and said. "But you all will not get the market. You all will lose this market. You all will lose a market worth more than 10 billion USD!"
"Jae-kun, there's no point in playing the game of sophistry at this time!" Nobuyuki Idei laughed.
"No, I never twist the facts. I want to ask Mr. Idei to use his years of experience and identity as Sony's CEO to tell me the truth. Is MP3 going to be the mainstream in the future because of the magnetic tape players and CDs? Will cassette players and CDs be replaced by MP3 players? "Boss Jia stared into Idei's eyes and asked.
Although Idei wanted to deny, it was just like what Jia Yapeng said. With his experience, personality, and identity as Sony's CEO, he could not deny this question. He could only nod.
But he immediately added. "But if you all lose the lawsuit, MP3 players will be banned by the law. They will not be able to invade our market!"
"You are only half right!" Boss Jia laughed. "That's right. If we lose the lawsuit, considering that the United States is the one that sets the global rules, MP3 players will be banned worldwide."
"But the ones that will be banned will be Daqian and Sony. We have countless eyes on us. If we are banned by the law, we will not be able to produce MP3 players!"
"But what about those small businesses? What about those small businesses that are hiding in the streets? Even the police can't find them? "
"Honestly, the technology behind MP3 players is not high. After 2 to 3 years, any small factory will be able to produce MP3 players. These MP3s often don't have any trademarks or production addresses. To put it bluntly, it's a pirated product without any intellectual property rights. "
"But such products can run amok. They hide in the dark corners. The law can control tigers like us, but it can't deal with those insignificant mice!"
"Therefore, I dare to say that even if we are banned from producing MP3 players, the future will still be dominated by MP3 players. Cassettes and CDs will still be withdrawn from the market. However, these MP3 players infringe on our intellectual property rights. They are produced by those rats hiding in the dark corners. By then, all the users in the world will be buying and using pirated MP3 players!"
"That's still a market worth tens of billions of dollars, but it really has nothing to do with us. We can only watch MP3 generate amazing profits, but big tigers like us are bound by the law. We can't touch this market at all!"
"…" Nobuo Dekai was silent. He had to admit that Boss Jia's words were very reasonable, and it was basically the reality.
Daqian and Sony's targets were too big. As long as the law does not allow them to sell their MP3 players, they will not be able to sell their MP3 players. But MP3 players will definitely replace the traditional market.
This can be seen from the sales of Daqian MP3 players in the past month. MP3 players are the trend and cannot be stopped.
"This is a very ridiculous thing. You used the reason of piracy to stop me, but in the end, you gave the entire market to all the pirates. Isn't this the most ridiculous thing in the world?" Boss Jia couldn't help laughing as he said that.
"This is your Daqian's interest. This is your Daqian's market. What has it got to do with Sony?" Nobuo Dekai was not willing to be led by Boss Jia.
"Oh, if Mr. Idei is here to promise me that Sony does not have the MP3 technology and will never enter the MP3 market, then I will send Mr. Idei off now. We can talk in court!" Mr. Jia laughed. Nobuo Idei was so angry that he wanted to hit him.
"Alright, Mr. Dekai. We are all businessmen. There is no need to argue about this. We are only interested in profits. Anyone who tries to stop us from making profits should be destroyed!" Boss Jia licked his lips. "To be honest, although Daqian had developed the MP3 player and introduced it to the market, we are still not comparable to Sony."
"But in terms of technologies, we are still not as good as Sony. If Sony enters this market, at least half of the market will fall into Sony's hands. At most, we can only monopolize the market for the first few years. Do you think that Sony's future products will not be better than ours?
"Of course!" Nobuo Dekai snorted.
"So, Ichei-kun agrees!" Boss Jia's smile became even sweeter.
"I cannot agree to this alone. I need the entire board of directors to make this decision!" Nobuo Dekai said.
"I believe that if Mr. Dekai can speak up for us, the board of directors will not have any problems. Also, I am willing to cooperate with Mr. Dekai on Guangying Supermarket! "
"Guangying Supermarket? How do you intend to cooperate? "When it comes to Guangying Supermarket, Nobuo Dekai felt another pain in his heart.
Just like Sony's VCD players, Sony had to give up on Guangying Supermarket because of high operating costs. All the cultural companies that had signed contracts with Sony were transferred to Daqian Guangying Supermarket. Even Sony Pictures and Sony Music had to join Daqian Guangying Supermarket.
After all, only by joining Da Qian's Guangying Supermarket can they enter the global VCD market and sell their VCD players. No one will reject money.
"My next step will be to build a large-scale online version of Guangying Supermarket on the Internet. I will push all the music copyrights owned by Guangying Supermarket to the online platform in the form of electronic versions. Then, I will charge a fee to provide MP3 downloads for netizens.
"After that … …" Nobuo Dekai's finger twitched. After CD and cassette players were replaced by MP3 players, Sony Music will lose their biggest sales medium. Sony must find a new medium to sell their music on MP3 players. If not, their entire music library will be useless.
"It will be the same as the offline Guangying Supermarket. For every music sold, Daqian will take 50% of the profits!" Boss Jia laughed. "If Mr. Dekai can agree to my conditions, then we are willing to sign a separate contract with Sony. We will give up 20% of the profits and only take 30% of the profits!"
"… …" At this moment, Nobuo Dekai was shaking.
Now, through Daqian's offline Guangying Supermarket, Sony's profits were about 220 million USD a year. 110 million USD of the profits will be given to that damn Daqian. Nobuo Dekai felt wronged when he thought about this.
Actually, for VCD players, the profits from the music copyrights were even more shocking. Last year, Sony Music's total profits was 520 million USD.
If these 520 million USD of profits were transferred to the internet and sold through Guangying Supermarket, then 20% of the profits would be 110 million USD. That would be 1.1 billion USD in 10 years. Even Sony would not be able to resist this huge temptation!
"I got him!" Boss Jia saw the expression on Nobuo Dekai's face and knew he had won. It was just that Nobuo Dekai did not want to admit it.
"Come, let's have dinner!" Boss Jia snapped his fingers. Suddenly, ten beautiful maids came in one after another. Under the surprised gaze of Nobuyuki Tsui, they stood at various positions of the table, holding exquisite ivory chopsticks. With their graceful postures, they constantly picked out the most delicious part of the more than thirty dishes on the table, and then carefully put it into the bowls of the four people.
If there were lobsters, crabs, etc., the maids would use special tools to scrape out the meat from the shells and put it into Nobuo Dekai's bowl.
Nobuo Dekai realized that he did not even need to move his chopsticks to taste the best parts of the 30 dishes on the table.
"Could this be the correct way to eat Chinese cuisine?" Nobuo Dekai asked.
"I don't know if it is authentic or not, but this is how Empress Dowager Cixi used to eat!" Boss Jia smiled and said.
"If I don't agree, I am afraid I will only be able to eat the three dishes in front of me. These maids will not even appear!" Nobuo Dekai sighed in his heart.
Jia Yapeng was such a petty man.
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