While the preparations for Romance of the Three Kingdoms were in full swing, on the other hand, Boss Jia's lawsuit officially began.
In a Florida court, the United States Industrial Recording Association's lawsuit against the Daqian Group officially began.
Because this lawsuit had attracted enough attention before, most of the United States media's attention was focused on the court. But before the trial began, most of the smart media had already guessed that the Daqian Group would win without a doubt.
First, there was the plaintiff group. Previously, there was a vigorous plaintiff group, but now, only two companies, the American Industrial Products Association and Rolling Stone Records, were still gritting their teeth and suing.
This caused the plaintiff's strength to be reduced by about 23%, making it difficult for them to compete with the Daqian Group.
And the most important point was the team of lawyers that both sides had brought out.
The United States Industrial Recording Association had a total of five lawyers, which seemed to be quite a lot. One of them was a nationally famous lawyer, which seemed to be very good.
But on the other side, when the Daqian's lawyers appeared, it was completely different. The Daqian's lawyers were as many as 32 people, and each lawyer's reputation was no less than the nationally famous lawyer on the other side.
Behind these 32 lawyers were 24 famous law firms in the United States. Among the top 30 law firms in the country, these 24 firms accounted for 20 of them, and the top 10 law firms were among them.
"Even if the plaintiff is the leader of the United States, this case will definitely fail!" Many reporters sighed.
As for the plot of a lawyer defeating 32 industry leaders, it only existed in TV dramas and novels. It didn't exist in reality, unless the criminal committed the crime live on TV.
When the trial began, the lawyers on both sides presented evidence and argued, and the situation became even more obvious.
First of all, the plaintiff presented evidence. It could be seen that the plaintiff's lawyer had done his best to collect evidence. He presented more than 230 facts that Daqian MP3 users had downloaded pirated songs to prove the Daqian MP3's guilt.
As a result, the Daqian's lawyer took out more than 3,000 cases of users using pirated music or CDs to listen to songs. Then he asked the United States Industrial Recording Association if they were responsible for these piracy cases.
Are they the same as the Daqian? Are they also the producers of these pirated media?
Moreover, the production of those pirated records or cassettes were genuine members of the Industrial Association!
With such a rhetorical question, the Industrial Recording Association was left speechless.
Next, the Daqian lawyer took out a lot of anti-piracy countermeasures against Daqian MP3 players. First of all, on the packaging of all the boxes, it was written that downloading pirated songs was prohibited.
In the driver of the MP3 player, there was also a built-in official download channel. At the same time, under normal circumstances, it was impossible to directly drag pirated songs into the MP3 player.
Of course, if someone slightly changed the driver's file, this restriction could be broken. But this was done by hackers, and it had nothing to do with the Daqian. The Daqian was really trying to prevent piracy!
Anyway, the Daqian was really trying to prevent piracy, but there were some things that couldn't be prevented at all. The Daqian couldn't do anything about it.
A few days later, the court announced that the United States Industrial Recording Association lost the case. All their claims were rejected. The Daqian Group and the Daqian MP3 players were innocent and could be sold in the market normally.
As soon as the verdict was announced, in the following week, more than five million Daqian MP3 players were sold all over the world.
Because of this case, almost all the TV viewers in the world knew about this big case because of the media's vigorous publicity, and they also knew about the MP3 player, which was a black technology product.
Moreover, the price wasn't expensive, the cheapest one was only 99 USD. It was simply too good, and they were not human if they didn't buy it!
In fact, after a lot of media reviews, if there wasn't such a lawsuit as publicity, the sales of the Daqian MP3 players might only be less than 1/3 of the current 60 million sales. This case didn't harm the Daqian MP3 players at all. Instead, it helped the Daqian MP3 players greatly. It was simply a godly assist!
In fact, it was the same in history.
In 1999, when the MP3 player was first introduced to the market, the sales weren't very good. In half a year, less than three million units were sold.
But with the United States Industrial Recording Association's lawsuit, and then the media's crazy coverage, when the court's verdict was announced, the sales of the MP3 player crazily rose to 40 million units. It increased by more than ten times, and it was even more exaggerated than the Daqian in this world.
But the good days of the Daqian MP3 players were almost over, because the technical content of the MP3 player wasn't too high. Many companies had the technical reserve, but they didn't think of making such a thing.
That's why 4 months after the MP3 player was released, more than 30 companies around the world announced that they will introduce their MP3 players to the market.
In 1998, more than a thousand MP3 players appeared around the world. Many MP3 players had different functions, and the Daqian MP3 players' market share was seriously invaded. But Sony's MP3 players managed to overtake the Daqian MP3 players' market share.
This made people sigh in admiration of Sony's technical prowess in the music industry.
But at the same time, after the court hearing, Daqian, along with the rest of the world's music companies, announced the launch of Guangying Supermarket's online platform. Players can buy the original MP3 players through the internet, and Daqian will only charge 50-30% of the platform fees.
Later, almost all MP3 players produced by legitimate companies must be pre-installed with this website. If not, Guangying Supermarket will sue the other party for supporting piracy.
With the help of a huge group of lawyers, many MP3 companies that did not believe in heresy and wanted to create their own legitimate platform were convicted. The compensation alone was tens of millions of US dollars. In the end, other than the MP3 companies, there were no legitimate MP3 companies that did not pre-install Guangying Media.
On the other hand, Daqian did not suffer any losses. For an MP3 player, the biggest cost was the internal memory chip. Daqian's TF card had a powerful memory chip, and its price was much higher than other MP3 players. Daqian had taken over the entire MP3 player storage market because of its powerful memory chip.
No matter which MP3 player company, even Sony, had to buy Daqian's TF card as their MP3 player storage device.
For Sony, the cost of a 100MB memory card was enough to buy two 100MB Daqian's TF card. The price difference was so huge that all companies had to buy Daqian's TF card.
In fact, it was not only the MP3 player market. Daqian's TF card had taken over almost all the secondary storage device market in the world.
The so-called secondary market was the market other than memory sticks, which required extremely high reading speed of storage devices.
Within a year of the TF card's release, 98% of the secondary storage device manufacturers in the world either went bankrupt or gave up on the storage business. Daqian was like a monster that devoured the entire industry. Other companies could not compete with Daqian.
Even the top international memory device manufacturers were uneasy. They heard that Daqian was going to introduce the second generation of TF card. This TF card's storage speed was almost as fast as the memory chip's reading speed.
Daqian was going to produce the DR card directly. This was a type of card that had never been heard of before, but it was said that the reading speed of this card was faster than all the memory devices in the world.
This was simply too terrifying. These storage equipment manufacturers had already seen a terrifying whale swallowing the market, and they were powerless to do anything about it.
Even in their wildest dreams, these manufacturers couldn't understand how Huaxia, which had been a raw material supplier a few years ago, had mastered the world's most advanced memory chip technology in just a few years.
Moreover, they couldn't understand this kind of chip at all. Many companies had taken these chips apart and studied them repeatedly, but they couldn't figure out why. They only had a general feeling that it might be related to some kind of material, but they couldn't figure out what this material was.
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