"Oh right, talk to the major record companies in the country and tell them that we want to buy their electronic music copyrights."
"Electronic music copyrights?"
Li Nan was a little confused. "I don't think the songs on the Internet cost money."
"It's not that they don't cost money, but all the songs on the Internet are pirated."
Chen Yu was helpless.
Even Li Nan thought that the songs on the Internet cost money. If this continued, it would be useless even if they banned it in the future.
"We're a legitimate company, so we have to take the lead and use the original. Moreover, the future music website war is actually a copyright war. Once the major record companies are aware of copyright, and once the government supports them, whoever has more music copyrights will win this war. "
In his previous life, QQ Music and NetEase Cloud Music were successful because they bought a large amount of music copyrights.
As for the previously famous Qianqian Jingting, after it was bought by Baidu, there was no more news.
The reason was that Baidu did not care about copyrights.
Similarly, because Baidu did not care about copyrights, Baidu's MP3 streaming service was cut off.
It was not that Baidu did not want to do it, but the pressure from the top was too great and they did not dare to pirate anymore.
Of course, this was not only referring to music.
In the video website war, there was also a copyright war.
At this time, while everyone was not aware of copyrights, they could buy them all at a very low price.
"I'll immediately send someone to talk to the major record companies."
Although Li Nan could not predict the future, he understood the importance of copyrights.
Once copyrights were taken seriously in the future, the copyrights in their hands would be a huge treasure.
Everything went smoothly.
After Huanyu Technology came forward to communicate with the major record companies, the major record companies did not reject any of them.
This was not surprising.
The Internet had just developed. Not only were the average netizen not aware of electronic music copyrights, the major record companies were also a little confused about the so-called electronic music copyrights. In addition, they could easily find countless music sources on the Internet. They did not even think about electronic music copyrights.
Now that Huanyu Technologies wanted to buy them, it was simply giving them money for free.
Why would they not do something like giving them money for free?
Of course, although this was what they thought, the major record companies still took precautions.
They were worried that Huanyu Technologies would buy some of the copyrights and produce physical records, so they restricted Huanyu Technologies from producing physical records. Huanyu Technologies had no issues with this. They had never thought of making physical records. They really only needed the electronic music copyright.
"Boss Chen, it's done."
"That's great. How much did it cost?"
"50 million."
"So cheap."
Chen Yu was overjoyed.
"When they heard that we wanted to buy the electronic music rights, they didn't even talk about the price."
"That's right. If it were me, I wouldn't bargain for free either."
Chen Yu smiled.
Fifty million seemed to be a large number.
But 50 million corresponded to about 500,000 songs.
That's right.
According to the statistics of the relevant departments, there were about 700,000 songs in the country.
Some of the 200,000 songs were in the hands of some small record companies. Some of the record companies had even closed down. Some were in the hands of individuals and couldn't be bought for the time being. However, this didn't matter. Basically, more than 99.9% of the popular songs in the world could be bought here.
The price of 500,000 songs was 50 million yuan.
Based on this calculation, the price of each song was only 100 yuan.
It couldn't be more cost-effective.
Of course, in the current situation, many people and companies wouldn't even pay 100 yuan.
In their words, why would they spend money to buy the copyrights if they didn't use it when it was free?
But Chen Yu was willing to be a fool for now.
Now that he could spend 50 million yuan to buy these songs, in a few years, the value of the 500,000 songs in the music library would increase by 10 times. In another ten years, it was even possible for it to increase by 100 times.
"Oh, how about that search website?"
"I bought it."
"So easy. How much did it cost?"
"1 million."
"Only 1 million."
Chen Yu was surprised again.
"Boss Chen, 1 million is actually quite a lot. This was the price quoted by the founder of the search website, Xie Zhenyi. At that time, he also thought that the price might be too high. The price in his heart was 800,000 yuan, but he didn't expect me to agree directly. "
"It shouldn't be."
Chen Yu still felt incredulous.
Li Nan said with a smile, "Boss Chen, you don't know. Although the search website has a lot of traffic, it really can't make much money. Although everyone will search for songs online, it can't generate any expenses. The search website's biggest business at present is advertising. However, Boss Chen, as you know, the simple web advertising model can't even survive on portals, let alone a small music website. "
"Sigh, I'm really scared of being poor."
Chen Yu finally understood.
Although the Internet made money, it had to be made.
In the early days, the Internet was simply a bottomless pit, let alone making money.
Even if you sat on millions of traffic, you couldn't escape death if the traffic couldn't be converted into cash.
Back then, QQ was almost sold for 600,000 yuan because it was so poor.
But even now, QQ didn't make money purely based on instant messaging.
If you can hold on, there might be a sunny day in the future.
If you can't hold on, you might die at any moment.
This reminded Chen Yu of Principal Wang's video website in his previous life. With such a large traffic, it closed down just like that.
Although traffic is a beautiful thing, if you can't convert it into cash, it's useless. "
"How many people from the search website will come?"
"Boss Chen, you might not believe it, but there's only one person operating the search website."
"One person?"
"Yes."
Li Nan took out the information of the search website's founder. "The founder is called Xie Zhenyi, a graduate of the Computer Science Department at Zhong Hua University. He used to do technology development at the China Merchants Bank. Later, he founded the search website on his own. However, the Internet bubble in 2000 almost caused the search website to close down. It was only recently that they took on some advertising and barely managed to maintain their daily operations. "
"This is really similar to Huanyu Technologies back then."
This reminded Chen Yu of himself.
At that time, Huanyu Technologies only had a few people.
"Is he coming or not?"
Acquiring this website was a small matter. What Chen Yu valued the most was people.
Naturally, Chen Yu wanted to poach a technical expert capable of creating a search website and creating a method to search for MP3 sources.
"He's coming."
Li Nan said, "He said he'll come over in a few days."
"Okay, tell him to come to my office."
"Yes."
…
A few days later, Li Nan brought a man with glasses into Chen Yu's office.
Chen Yu looked at him. He was a typical engineering guy and a nerd.
"Boss Chen, this is Xie Zhenyi, President Xie."
"This is our Boss Chen."
"Please sit."
However, just when Chen Yu thought that the man in front of him was a traditional engineering guy, Xie Zhenyi ran over to him. Xie Zhenyi, on the other hand, trotted over to Chen Yu with incomparable enthusiasm. He held Chen Yu's hands tightly and said, "President Chen, my admiration for you is like the endless torrential river, and like the overflowing Yellow River, it can't be stopped once it overflows …"
"What's going on …"
Chen Yu was stunned and looked at Li Nan.
Li Nan was also stunned. He didn't expect Xie Zhenyi to do this.
"President Xie, President Xie."
Li Nan coughed loudly.
However, Xie Zhenyi smiled and said, "Boss Li, I'm serious. This is from the bottom of my heart."
"I didn't expect President Xie to be such a technology expert."
Chen Yu smiled and felt that this was interesting.
"Boss Chen, I have no choice. It's boring to be a technology expert. I stay at home every day, so I have to find some entertainment for myself."
Xie Zhenyi didn't look like a traditional technology guy. In Chen Yu's words, he had a funny temperament.
This made Chen Yu feel close to him.
"Li Nan, I'll leave you to your work. I'll talk to President Xie."
Chen Yu sat down in front of Xie Zhenyi. "President Xie, how are you? Have you gotten used to this place?"
"Yes, I've gotten used to it. You don't know how boring it is to be a website owner."
"That's good."
Chen Yu nodded with a smile. "Did Boss Li tell you about our current situation?"
"Boss Li said a little. I've been thinking about our direction these days."
"Tell me about it."
"Boss Chen, I think our electronic music has a bright future."
"But there are so many pirated versions on the Internet."
"It's difficult to eliminate the pirated versions, but it's easy to eliminate some of them. For example, this website was created by me personally. If the company reports me to the relevant authorities after getting the copyright, I'll have to surrender. "
"Haha …"
Chen Yu was amused.
"Boss Chen, I'm telling the truth. I'm in the music website business. From the information I have, most of the music website founders are individuals."
"What if there are companies doing it?"
"It's even better if there are companies. They can sue directly in court. This is more effective than reporting to the relevant authorities."
"I think so too."
Although Xie Zhenyi didn't look like an ordinary technical man, Chen Yu was satisfied with his answer.
With the copyright in hand, he could decide how to fight in the future.
"Boss Chen, I also made a music player?"
"Why did you think of making a music player?"
"I think there's a shortcoming of online music platforms. Although they can search or download various songs from the website, most people still prefer to use music players, like Qianqian Listen. Qianqian Listen doesn't have many functions. It's just a software that collects music and plays it."
"Convenience."
"Boss Chen is right. Opening a music player is undoubtedly easier than entering a music website."
"Looks like you've thought of everything. I just don't want you to be the person in charge of YY Music."
Chen Yu joked.
"Boss Chen, didn't the company buy my search website to find a talent in charge of music?"
"You're quite confident. However, I really didn't consider letting you be in charge. "
"Ah …"
Xie Zhenyi was dumbfounded. "Don't, Boss Chen. Boss Chen, let me try it out for a few months. How about I give Cool Dog to the company for free and give me a good position? "
"You're still bargaining in front of me."
Chen Yu was defeated by Xie Zhenyi.
He had never seen such a technical man before.
However, Chen Yu seemed to remember something. "What did you say just now, Cool Dog?"
"What's Cool Dog?"
"Cool Dog is the music player I was talking about."
"You developed it?"
"This … Yes."
Xie Zhenyi didn't understand why Chen Yu suddenly asked this.
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