Under the temptation of huge bonuses, manufacturers of pirated optical discs across the country suffered an unprecedented blow overnight. More than 50% of pirates were arrested overnight, and almost all the remaining pirates were attacked in the second half of the year. The sky disappeared.
None of these pirates who have not been caught yet are sure whether their information has been reported to Makino Technology, so they either start running away or destroying evidence. In short, almost no one dares to commit crimes.
Those who dare to commit crimes at this time are generally small-scale family-owned workshops that do not need to hire additional workers. The entry of raw materials and the shipment of finished products are very hidden and difficult to be discovered.
However, within a few days, even if these small-scale producers were not caught, they largely lost the motivation to produce pirated discs because the supply chain in this market began to break. For a while, no one dared to sell pirated discs on the market. .
This is the scary thing about Makino Technology. Once a large enterprise of this size starts to not let go of people selling pirated disks in the streets and alleys, as long as it receives reports, even if it is just a street vendor, Makino Technology will put these people away. Reporting clues are submitted to the local law enforcement department, and the results of the law enforcement feedback will be consulted with the local law enforcement department every few hours. If the results are not provided for a long time, Makino Technology's legal team will send a dedicated person to the local area to "cooperate with the law enforcement department to crack down." Piracy”.
It's said to be cooperation, but in fact it's just another way of exerting pressure.
Makino Technology itself is a world-class star enterprise and the largest online platform with strong publicity capabilities. In this anti-piracy operation, it also perfectly demonstrated the image of a good citizen and a model enterprise. These factors have made law enforcement everywhere Units have to pay attention to combating piracy.
Pirate audio and video stores, CD rental shops and roadside stalls that line the streets all over the country have almost all closed down after several rounds of arrests, several rounds of pirated audio and video products confiscated, and administrative detention of shop owners suspected of selling pirated audio and video products.
This is mainly because among the various reports received by Makino Technology, reports about sellers of pirated audio and video products account for more than 90% of all reports. Every store selling pirated optical discs has received a large number of complaints from citizens. of complaints.
The reason is very simple. There are only a few production lines, and pirated manufacturers are engaged in 2B (To-Business) business and not 2C (To-Consumer) business. Just like in clothing production, they only face wholesale agents. It does not face consumers directly, so most people who want to report the production line have no way.
Those that directly face consumers are these small shops in the streets and alleys. There are more than 10,000 people in front of the door every day, from the proprietress of the barber shop across the door to the master chef of the ramen shop next door, as well as the punks who have no money to surf the Internet diagonally across the door of the Internet cafe. Everyone wants to make the 2,000 yuan that can be earned by successfully reporting, so everyone is frantically reporting such stores.
According to data analysis by Makino Technology, the maximum number of messages reported by different people at the same time to the same store reached more than 260.
The nuclear attack by Makino Technology has put the entire piracy industry into turmoil, and also caused the entire industry to suffer an unprecedented heavy blow.
Many piracy practitioners hate Makino Technology. In their eyes, they are just making a little money. Compared with a company like Makino Technology with a valuation of over 100 billion U.S. dollars, they are like ants. Everyone pirates "Crazy Stone" ” is like a group of ants grabbing the bread crumbs dropped by Makino Technology while eating. Makino Technology wants to kill them all, which is really inhumane.
Some pirate users were also very dissatisfied with Makino Technology's approach. For a time, the route to cheap enjoyment of intellectual property was cut off. Not only could they not buy or see the pirated version of "Crazy Stone", they could even pirated other movies, Music tapes and CDs are difficult to buy. They blame Makino Technology for this "loss" and call on many netizens who hold the same views to spread attacks on Makino Technology.
When these voices came back to Li Mu's ears, he did not relax his crackdown on pirates, and he did not delete any comments criticizing Makino Technology online.
If someone really wants to scold Makino Technology for combating piracy, then not only can he not delete their abusive remarks, but he must keep these things. He believes that even if the majority of consumers cannot understand him now, they will not understand him in the next few years. , will still understand that this is the inevitable result of social progress and the increasing legal awareness of the masses. These remarks that support, defend, and favor piracy will sooner or later be nailed to the pillar of shame on China's intellectual property protection road.
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With the protection against piracy, "Crazy Stone" will remain popular in the following week.
The average box office on weekdays is more than 65 million, giving everyone in the industry a pink eye.
Just half a day later on Saturday, the total box office exceeded the one billion mark. This is an unprecedented box office peak for Chinese movies and an excellent proof of the commercial potential of Chinese movies.
Almost all media dedicated their front-page headlines to "Crazy Stone". Turning on the TV at 6:30 in the evening, almost every satellite TV news program was reporting on this historic moment. Subsequently, the news network, CCTV This news was also listed as the main content and reported with emphasis.
CCTV stated in the report that "Crazy Stone" represents the huge potential contained in China's local commercial films and the commercial film market, and believes that it will be a new starting point for Chinese films.
One movie represents the potential of the entire industry;
One movie represents a new starting point for the entire Chinese film industry;
The evaluation given by CCTV is indeed very high. Although it is high, it is not flattering.
A billion box office is simply a myth. Any movie that can achieve this box office result in this era can be directly crowned a god!
"Crazy Stone" has had a great positive impact on the entire industry, with a box office of one billion, cultivating tens of millions of paying audiences for the future Chinese film industry, and cultivating their habit of buying tickets to watch movies in theaters;
At the same time, the billion dollar box office has also made directors and screenwriters in the industry aware of the explosive growth of the market space in the future. The increase in total box office volume indicates that this big pot of rice is expanding, and everyone can eat more and better than before. So this makes them gear up and invest in this industry with greater passion;
In addition, the capital enthusiasm in the film and television industry has also skyrocketed. Before "Crazy Stone", not many people dared to invest tens of millions to make a movie, because the box office may not reach tens of millions. However, "Crazy Stone" "Stone" showed such strong box office performance that it transformed the film and television industry from a barren yellow land into an oil field containing huge profits.
Because of the unparalleled high attendance rate of "Crazy Stone", theater chains made a lot of money during this period. For a time, even investing in theater chains became a good business in the eyes of physical entrepreneurs. In addition, Li Mu previously launched the "Screen Fission Plan", which provides another strong guarantee and psychological support for those who want to invest in theaters.
In order to celebrate the box office of "Crazy Stone" exceeding 1 billion, Makino Imaging organized an internal celebration banquet in Yanjing. This celebration banquet did not invite any media, except for the executives of Makino Technology, employees of Makino Imaging and In addition to the contracted artists and crew members, only Chen Ze, Song Liang and Cai Zhengmao of CSC Club were invited to participate.
The reason why the media and guests were not invited was that a total of two celebration banquets were prepared. This one was a real celebration banquet for everyone to be together. The celebration banquet two days later was open to media reporters and guests. , that celebration banquet was mainly to build a new round of publicity for the movie, which was equivalent to adding another fire to the fire.
However, Li Mu was unable to attend the second celebration party. The party he had agreed with Steve Johnson, the boss of Sequoia, was just around the corner. The business jet he rented would take off from Yanjing to London tomorrow. Traveling with Li Mu was Li Mu. Ziwei, and three personal bodyguards including Wang Yuanlang. In addition to them, there are two guests, namely Anne Hathaway and her personal assistant.
At the celebration banquet, Ning Hao, as the protagonist, was so excited that he couldn't even speak. He went from an unknown employee to a top director whose single film broke a billion box office for the first time. This step has been taken by others and has not been successful for decades. , it only took me two years to succeed.
When everyone was yelling at him to say something, he, a rough old man, couldn't hold back his emotions and cried like a middle-aged man whose beloved wife ran away with his good brother.
As the boss, Li Mu stepped forward to comfort him, but he hugged Li Mu and cried even harder.
Li Mu could understand Ning Hao's mood at the moment. No matter how the society exaggerates success, for most people in the world, life is unsatisfactory eight or nine times out of ten.
Whether you are in the workplace or in any industry or field, as long as you are not the boss, you will face a special test of your character: Can you meet a good boss on your growth path
However, good bosses are much rarer than giant pandas in this society.
Some bosses simply starve their employees to lose weight;
Some bosses have exhausted themselves in order to find ways to deduct wages from their employees;
How many bosses are there who are really willing to take out the rice from their own pots so that their employees and their families are well fed
Therefore, Ning Hao felt particularly lucky that he had met Li Mu. As a boss, Li Mu was much better than the best boss he had ever imagined. This movie could reach such heights mostly because of his contribution to the movie. Such a tall and solid foundation has been built.
Li Mu patted Ning Hao on the shoulder and said jokingly: "Old Ning, don't be too excited. You just set a new record, but the purpose of records is to be broken."
Ning Hao wiped away his tears and said, "Then I hope my record can be broken soon. That will be the real spring of Chinese cinema."
Li Mu laughed and said: "Then I think the next one to break the box office record of "Crazy Stone" should be "Flying Tigers"."
Ning Hao nodded and said: "The box office of "Flying Tigers" in North America alone may reach hundreds of millions of dollars in the future. I can't even imagine how much it can achieve at the global box office."
Li Mu laughed and said: "The box office of "Flying Tigers" must break the global box office record. Even if we spend money, it must reach this level, because its significance is not how much money it makes, but how many people watch it!"
(End of chapter)