"I want to set up an online movie and video website!" Jia Yapeng thought for a while, then gave a plausible answer.
"Online movie and video website? What's that? "Zou Wenhuai's wrinkles were squeezed together.
Online movie and video website? This was a name that Zou Wenhuai had never heard of before.
Although there was already internet in Hong Kong in this era, Zou Wenhuai, who was over 60 years old, was completely unfamiliar with websites.
In fact, in this era, if you randomly found 100 people in any country in the world, there would be no more than three people who knew what a website was.
"It's a website that broadcasts movies and videos online. Anyone can watch movies and videos through the internet. Of course, it needs the permission of the copyright!" Jia Yapeng laughed.
"The internet? Is it the thing that keeps buzzing like a cat and has to wait for dozens of seconds for a picture to appear?" Zou Wenhuai had been in contact with the internet before.
In fact, Hong Kong was first connected to the internet in 1992. It seemed that Zou Wenhuai's grandfather was very fashionable. He even knew about cats.
"That thing? You can watch movies? " Zou Wenhuai shook his head. He doubted that Jia Yapeng's brain was short-circuited. How could he come up with such a whimsical idea?
In fact, Zou Wenhuai's idea was not wrong. In this era, whether it was a young person or a middle-aged person, they all had the same idea as Zou Wenhuai.
Because the internet speed in this era was a few hundred times slower than that of a snail or a tortoise.
In this era, there was no dedicated internet cable, let alone optical fiber. If you wanted to go online, you could only do it through a telephone line.
Of course, the telephone line couldn't directly connect to the internet. The telephone line had to be connected to a modem, which was what everyone called a cat.
However, the cats in 1993 were completely different from the cats of today. The cats in 1993 weren't silent, but they would constantly hiss like a cat. The hiss was so loud that even the people in the next room could hear it clearly.
Otherwise, why would the modem be called a cat?!
Therefore, in that era, it was impossible to secretly surf the internet at home, because as long as you listened to the hiss, your family could catch you.
The ear-piercing meowing was one thing, but more importantly, the internet speed in 1993 was simply indescribable.
Using specific data, the internet speed in Hong Kong in 1993 was about 20b/s.
In the year 2020, the size of an ordinary picture was about 3MB, and 1MB was about 1000KB, and 1KB was about 1000B. I believe that at this time, everyone should be able to understand how painful the internet speed of that era was.
Therefore, when Zou Wenhuai learned that Jia Yapeng was planning to set up a video website, he suspected that Jia Yapeng was crazy.
"I think this dream will come true in about 10 years or so!" Jia Yapeng said with a smile.
"More than ten years? In my opinion, even a hundred years might not be enough! "Zou Wenhuai shook his head. In the end, this young man was still a little too young and exaggerated.
In fact, this was also the reason why Jia Yapeng used this as an excuse. No one would believe Jia Yapeng's words, even though Jia Yapeng was telling the truth. He was already preparing for the future video website.
"10 million! Our Jiahe's 448 movie copyrights will be sold to you as a package! "Zou Wenhuai pondered for a while, then gave his own price.
"Is it all the movie copyrights?" Jia Yapeng immediately asked.
"It's all the copyrights other than the videotape copyrights and sequels!" Zou Wenhuai finished speaking and looked at Jia Yapeng.
To be honest, even Zou Wenhuai himself felt that this price was too high. After all, a movie that had already passed its release date and its novelty level was only left with sequels and original videotapes.
Once these two rights were taken away, not to mention 448 movies, even if it was 4448 movies, it might not be able to bring in 10 million Hong Kong dollars in profits in 10 years!
"This price is a little high!" Jia Yapeng shook his head and pondered for a while. Then, he asked, "Is it a lifetime copyright?"
"Yes!" Zou Wenhuai nodded.
"Then I have another condition. For all of Jiahe's movie copyrights in the future, other than the videotape copyrights and sequels, I want the priority to buy all the copyrights. Sell them to me at a price of 30 thousand per movie!" Jia Yapeng said.
"Okay!" Zou Wenhuai decisively agreed again. This was equivalent to earning 30 thousand for every movie in the future. How could Zou Wenhuai not agree?
"Okay!" Boss Jia finally nodded and agreed. In a situation where Zou Wenhuai felt that it was a little surreal, both parties signed the copyright agreement and handed over all the videotapes to Jia Yapeng at the same time.
Following that, Boss Jia visited Shao Brothers Pictures and a series of other movie companies one after another. He made his own request, which was to buy all the lifetime copyrights of these movies, other than the sequels and videotape copyrights, according to the quality of the movie, for a price ranging from 10 million to 30 thousand.
Even the movies that had yet to be born in the future were also signed and bought.
When these companies heard Boss Jia's request, they were extremely shocked at first. Then, they were extremely happy.
Jia Yapeng's request was like money that they had picked up from the ground.
The copyrights of these movies would not bring any profit to the company. Now, they could actually pick up tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars for free. It was simply a good thing that fell from the sky.
Of course, it was not that no one doubted Boss Jia. They felt that Jia Yapeng was not a fool and that these copyrights must be used for other purposes. However, the problem was that although they could see that there was a problem, they could not figure out what the problem was.
On the other hand, there was the temptation of real money. Therefore, even the smartest people could not resist. In the end, they all obediently sold the copyrights to Boss Jia.
In this way, except for a few Hong Kong movies whose copyrights were difficult to find or whose videotapes were all destroyed, the lifetime copyrights of more than 4,000 Hong Kong movies fell into the hands of Boss Jia. In the end, he spent about 60 million Hong Kong dollars.
And all the movie copyrights that had yet to be produced in the next 30 years were sold to Jia Yapeng by these film companies.
Shao's Pictures also sold a large number of TV series copyrights to Jia Yapeng, including the 1987 version of The Return of the Condor Heroes, Shanghai Bund, Liang Chaowei's version of The Deer and the Cauldron. Even in the future, they were famous TV series copyrights.
However, because the production of TV series was too large, Boss Jia no longer bought all of them. Instead, he bought back the copyrights of some carefully selected TV series. Basically, it was equivalent to buying all the TV series copyrights of TVB.
Similarly, TVB sold all the TV copyrights for the next 30 years to Boss Jia in advance.
At first, everyone was happy, but after 2000, with the complete prosperity of the Internet and DVD market, these film companies gradually understood how stupid the agreement they signed was.
Those film companies were fine. As long as they closed down their old companies and set up a new film company, they could get rid of the shackles of this agreement.
But TVB was not so lucky, because TVB could not close down. Otherwise, their TV license would be fine, and the various brand values they had accumulated for a long time would be lost.
TVB could only grit their teeth and bear it.
Therefore, TVB, who had always been used to cutting meat from actors, was ruthlessly cut by Boss Jia.
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