While the major TV stations that cooperated with Letao were still broadcasting Letao's Christmas promotion ads, Letao's website was no longer accessible and reported a 404 error.
Those users who saw the advertisement and tried to open Letao immediately started to curse when they found that the website could not be opened. Many users who were still visiting the website suddenly found that the website could no longer be opened when they opened a new link on the site. Trying to go to any page will always be the same, it will always be a cold 404 prompt page.
Peers in the industry were in an uproar! The news about Letao being controlled by the police has not yet spread, so people in the industry don’t understand why Letao has a website 404 problem at such a critical moment.
The most basic and primary requirement for any website at the operational and technical levels is smooth access. What’s more, the website is still in the stage of placing a large number of advertisements. If there is a problem with the website at this time, wouldn’t all the money spent on advertising be wasted? Already
No one knows that the server of this website has been shut down and sealed by law enforcement agencies. All the data in it will become ironclad evidence for the calculation of the general ledger in the future.
Along with the server, the host computer of all the company's computers was confiscated, which contained a large number of internal files and data, including all of Letao's order details, chat records between employees and all sellers, and information about their shell companies. As well as various details of the cooperation between shell companies and counterfeit factories.
Boss Ma and a group of employees were taken into a police car, and then the staff of the industrial and commercial department sealed the company's office. Boss Ma, who got into the police car, was still in extreme shock and had not recovered. He never imagined that , all my hard work for so long was wiped out in an instant.
Boss Ma, who was sitting in the back of the Iveco police car, was shaking uncontrollably. Although the police did not put handcuffs on him, let alone any restrictions or guards on him, he still could not calm down.
A huge line of police cars lined up and drove slowly to the city bureau. After walking more than half the distance, Boss Ma finally controlled the trembling in his body. At the same time, he tried his best to calm his brain a little and started to go crazy. And he thought about the current situation in confusion.
First of all, what Boss Ma can be sure of is that Letao has been completely targeted. It is very likely that this special operation is going straight to Letao. In this case, Letao will inevitably be unable to escape bad luck. The police will come Suddenly, Letao's orders were almost copied completely. All the evidence links in the server and company computers were too clear. Letao could not escape legal responsibility;
Since Letao cannot escape legal liability, it has been declared a death sentence to a certain extent. Boss Ma knows in his heart that since the superiors have already taken aggressive action, it will be difficult to restore the situation. In this case, Le Tao It is certain that Tao Tao will be shut down, or even the entire company's business license will be revoked. The most worrying thing now is not Letao, but the situation of itself and other employees.
Although Boss Ma has never studied law, he has worked hard in the Internet industry for so many years and has a relatively in-depth understanding of the law. Although the country has never formulated a special law for e-commerce, in this case, strictly speaking, Now, e-commerce can be subject to traditional laws and regulations.
Article 140 of the Criminal Law clearly stipulates that selling counterfeit and shoddy goods for an amount exceeding 50,000 yuan has violated the criminal law and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of less than two years or criminal detention. If the amount of selling counterfeit and shoddy goods exceeds 2 million, you may be sentenced to 15 years in prison. Even life imprisonment.
From the launch of Letao to now, sales have reached 100 million yuan, of which at least 80% are counterfeit and shoddy goods, the most important of which are fake brand-name clothing, shoes and hats. If sentenced according to the criminal law, at least hundreds of them Letao store owners will be sentenced, and Letao itself cannot escape criminal punishment. The company's legal persons and business line employees will bear the brunt, followed by the leadership, which must also bear corresponding responsibilities. This is not a trivial matter, and you may have to go in and squat. Maybe three to five years.
Boss Ma felt filled with regret at this moment. However, what he regretted was not the founding of Letao, nor the development direction chosen by Letao. What he regretted was that he could not hold back his rapidly expanding heart.
If I had just acquiesced or implicitly guided Letao sellers to sell counterfeit goods, then when the policy suddenly came down, I could have used uninvolved and uninformed rhetoric to solve the problem, but the bad thing was that I couldn't bear it. Live the temptation of rapid development.
In order to accelerate the development of Letao, he constantly abandoned moral integrity and lowered the bottom line, from acquiescence to secret encouragement to large-scale incitement of sellers, and even directly cooperated with counterfeit factories. Letao has already gone further and further on the road of illegality, but Ma The boss himself never realized the seriousness of this problem. It was not until the moment when all the problems suddenly came together and collapsed that he realized how far he had gone on the dark road.
But it's too late to regret now!
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CCTV's evening news officially announced to the outside world for the first time the trial measures for e-commerce management and special rectification actions.
In the officially announced trial measures for e-commerce management, it is clearly stipulated that e-commerce is applicable to all corresponding provisions in existing criminal laws. At the same time, some supplementary provisions are also formulated specifically for e-commerce, such as:
Any e-commerce company or platform has a clear obligation to screen merchants and products on its own platform. If problems are found, the platform will also bear corresponding penalties in addition to merchants selling fake products;
No e-commerce company or platform may, in any form, acquiesce or even encourage platform merchants to sell counterfeit goods. Otherwise, if the platform party is found to be intentional and laissez-faire, in addition to corresponding penalties, the relevant responsible persons of the enterprise will be publicly announced and, according to their Due to the serious nature of their own violations, they will be prohibited from registering or participating in any Internet-related companies in the next 3 to 10 years, and any Internet-related companies will be prohibited from hiring in any form responsible persons who have been publicly announced and are still in the penalty stage.
Finally, CCTV also spoke for the Economic and Trade Commission, saying that in order to ensure a healthy development environment for e-commerce, it will focus on supervising e-commerce. Once problems are discovered, they will be dealt with quickly and will not be tolerated!
After the trial measures were announced, CCTV used a flash news report to report that Letao.com had been shut down and the relevant responsible persons had been controlled.
This explosive news, combined with the details of the trial measures, immediately caused a huge shock in the industry! No one expected that high-level control of e-commerce counterfeit sales would come so suddenly and with such determination!
When the news that Letao was banned and the team was controlled by the police reached Li Mu's ears, Li Mu was so excited that he couldn't be more excited!
He excitedly said to Senior Brother Liu: "The biggest cancer of China's e-commerce has finally been removed!"
Senior Brother Liu has never seen Li Mu so excited. Even when Makino Technology raised billions of dollars in one go, he had never seen Li Mu so excited.
He once wondered whether Li Mu had some personal grudge with Boss Ma. Billions of dollars didn't make him so excited, but an e-commerce website with a valuation of less than 100 million dollars could make him excited. It was so red that it almost brought tears to my eyes.
What Senior Brother Liu didn't know was how long Li Mu had been looking forward to this day.
He even said that he didn't start looking forward to this day after working on Taobao in this life, but he was looking forward to this day in his previous life!
No one living in this era knows the huge impact that e-commerce counterfeit sales have had on the entire Internet industry.
In the first few years of the development of the Internet in China, because it was a new thing and because everything was still being explored, the industry lacked necessary monitoring. In order to develop quickly and easily, almost all practitioners were playing around with things more or less. Some people engage in counterfeiting, some engage in serious piracy, and some engage in plagiarism and destruction. As the benefits of the Internet grow larger and larger, more and more people are doing side work.
When the development of the industry is at its most frightening, piracy has almost completely suppressed genuine products, and counterfeit products have almost monopolized the market everywhere. The reason why everyone is so unscrupulous is because the relevant laws are not perfect. If there is no platform for selling fake products, With no website being punished for piracy, there will only be more and more people selling counterfeit products and engaging in piracy.
Take the problem of counterfeit products sold in a previous life. Because there was no control, Taobao sellers sold counterfeit products everywhere.
The routine of sellers selling fake products is constantly evolving. Some sellers sell all fake products, and some sellers sell a mix of genuine and fake products. If a user knowingly buys fake products at a low price, this can be said to be just a violation. The law does not harm consumers, but the most disgusting thing is that consumers buy extremely cheap fakes at the price of genuine products.
I’m afraid no one can calculate how many times the size of the country’s counterfeit goods market has expanded due to Xubao. With the rapid development of Xubao, counterfeiting has already formed a strong industrial chain. Take the well-known Xupeng. As for sunglasses, the product chain provided by counterfeiters to counterfeit merchants has been so complete that it is outrageous. There are not only fake sunglasses, fake packaging, fake instructions, glasses cloths, tags and labels, but also fake specialty stores. You can get small tickets.
If you search for “someone” on Alibaba, you will be able to find many sources of goods with a unit price of only tens of yuan, ranging from products to packaging to labels. This kind of wholesale source of goods itself is designed to sell counterfeit goods for retail purposes. Merchant services: A large number of counterfeit and shoddy goods come out of manufacturers and are shipped to physical store owners, online store owners and micro-businessmen across the country. They then pass through the hands of these merchants and finally flow into the hands of consumers.
The reason why such a powerful and even perfect fake goods production and sales chain can be created step by step is because of the personal demonstration of predecessors who "stepped on thunder without making a sound".
Everyone knows that selling counterfeit goods is illegal, and everyone knows that the road to selling counterfeit goods must be full of legal landmines. However, there are so many counterfeit merchants on Taobao who have made a fortune. They have clearly violated many laws but have never received any sanctions. , they swaggered through the minefield without a single hair being damaged. This immediately made people who originally dared not set foot in this minefield relax their vigilance, and then they rushed to this minefield that was supposed to kill and injure everyone. A minefield for readers.
In Li Mu's eyes, the history of a certain treasure is a living history of the development of counterfeit goods. It is the one that has continuously pushed the counterfeit chain to new heights, and the one that has caused countless consumers to suffer financial losses. Therefore, after a few years, it will be regarded as When the crackdown on counterfeiting began, Li Mu felt as sick as if he had swallowed a fly.
This is what Li Mu has always believed to be the "original sin" of enterprises. In his view, enterprises should pursue profits, but they cannot lose their integrity in pursuit of profits.
This is also the principle that Li Mu has always believed in: companies cannot do evil!
It's okay now, Letao is finally going to die!
The problem of counterfeit sales in e-commerce has finally been hit by the law in its infancy!
On the road to the development of e-commerce and the shortcut in the minefield of selling counterfeit goods, the legal minefield has finally been stepped on!
Li Mu believes that Letao's fate will definitely make thousands of people who are ready to imitate Letao and take this so-called "shortcut" give up their evil thoughts out of fear and fear!
Today is definitely a milestone in the development of China’s Internet e-commerce!
(End of chapter)