Chapter 21 Piracy Gate

At noon the next day, Lin Feng received a call from Meng Dong. During the phone call, Meng Dong told Lin Feng that the city government held an executive meeting in the morning and focused on the report on the Daya Chemical Incident of injury in "Chutian Style" yesterday.

A special investigation team was set up, and the Public Security Bureau, Environmental Protection Bureau and other relevant departments were jointly dispatched to jointly investigate Daya Chemical.

Of course, Lin Feng was not dissatisfied with this. However, Meng Dong finally said euphemistically that the live broadcast talk interview proposed by Lin Feng would not be adopted for the time being, and he begged Lin Feng to cooperate in continuing to accept interviews, or to use recorded broadcast methods. This is why Meng Dong was afraid

Lin Feng took the opportunity to attack Hu Xiaoli during the live broadcast, so for safety reasons, it is more appropriate to record and broadcast.

Lin Feng didn't express too much dissatisfaction with this. Anyway, he just took the opportunity to build the company's reputation.

After three consecutive days of reports about Lin Feng's exclusive interview were broadcast, Lin Feng instantly became a celebrity in Chu City. After all, he was young and promising, and he was the first public multi-millionaire in Chu City - still in US dollars.

This made Lin Feng particularly troubled. When Jiang Dan reported, he also reported his signing with Tencent and invited economic experts to analyze 5% of Tencent stocks held by Lin Feng and 89.5% of Dingdang.com.

The market value of the shares is estimated by economic experts to be approximately US$15 million.

Once this report was broadcast, Lin Feng's worries increased several times. Not only did his relatives and friends come to him, but also various welfare organizations came to him, begging Lin Feng to sponsor various welfare organizations. This made Lin Feng dumbfounded. Although according to the

Economists estimate that he does have assets of US$15 million, but this is just an estimate. Before the stock was listed, he was a pauper and had no money to donate.

But what made Lin Feng even more depressed was that no one believed him when he said he had no money to donate. Instead, they called him rich and unkind, and a villain who got his own way. This made Lin Feng very angry, but also helpless. In the end, in order to avoid these people, Lin Feng

I simply didn’t go to the company and went directly to the CD factory.

After three days of working day and night, 20,000 CDs have been initially printed. In order to ensure that the game will not be pirated and sold by pirates immediately, Lin Feng specially selected Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, etc. among the 90,000 orders.

There are no local buyers, and there are no buyers in coastal areas such as Shenzhen, Guangzhou and other places. After all, they are the bases of piracy. Lin Feng does not want the pirated copies to be shipped out of the factory just after the CD has passed.

After the game disc was sent out, they waited for another two days. After these players received the game trial, more videos of personal playing appeared on the Internet. All relevant game forums gave rave reviews to "Counter-Strike"

, which caused players who couldn't get the game disc to keep calling the company to urge them, and more orders came in one after another.

When Lin Feng's second batch of 50,000 CDs was printed, an additional 50,000 copies were ordered. Lin Feng and everyone in the company were so happy that they laughed from ear to ear.

However, a problem was also exposed at this time. Since this game is an online battle mode, many players who got the CD can only get familiar with the game after installing it, but cannot play. If you want to truly experience the fun of this game, you have to take the CD to an Internet cafe.

, only some players who happen to be connected to the LAN with residents in the same building can really enjoy the fun of this game. But even so, it is not convenient to connect. After all, everyone's rest time is not the same.

Although many Internet cafe owners have also purchased the CD of "Counter-Strike" and installed it to provide local battles. However, for a large number of buyers who own personal computers, the environment of Internet cafes cannot be compared with that at home.

In response to this situation, Lin Feng immediately contacted the Valve development team and proposed the idea of ​​a "robot". After hearing this, Minhle, the father of CS, thought this idea was very good and immediately ordered the Valve development team to develop the program. It only took less than a day.

, this robot program was successfully created and put online for free download.

Lin Feng put it on Dingdang.com to provide free downloads for players who bought the CD. After having this program, sales increased again. Finally, before the first pirated CD was interviewed, Lin Feng sold a total of 200,000 copies.

Although this sales volume is nothing compared to masterpieces such as "Legend of Sword and Fairy" that easily sell millions of copies, for Lin Feng and the entire company, it is the largest single income since the company was founded.

200,000 copies, 20 yuan each, is a gross income of 4 million yuan. Excluding the cost of 3 yuan, Luo Tao's localization team earned 1 yuan, and the Valve development team received 40% dividends. Lin Feng earned a total net profit of 19.2 million yuan this time.

Or cash. This greatly eased the company's economic crisis for the cash-strapped Lin Feng.

What makes Lin Feng even more delighted is that the sales boom of "Counter-Strike", coupled with the cooperation with Tencent, has brought a total of 100,000 registered sellers and 1 million registered sellers to Lin Feng's Dingdang.com.

With nearly 10 million clicks from buyers every day, Dingdang.com is already competing with Yix.com.

As the saying goes, good fortune and misfortune depend on it, and misfortune lies on blessing. While Lin Feng received good news, there was also bad news.

"Hey, brother Lin, congratulations, the "Counter-Strike" you sold on Dingdang.com is so popular, you must have made a lot of money!" Ma Huateng called suddenly. He first congratulated him, and then said in a different tone.

change.

"But Brother Lin, is this game of yours a pirated version?" Ma Huateng's tone was indescribably anxious.

"What do you mean?" Lin Feng was slightly stunned.

"Today someone posted on the Internet that your game is actually a game released by a foreign development team called Valve. It is available for free download worldwide and makes money by selling CD-keys to provide global Internet services. However, your game does not provide any CDs.

-Key, saying you are a pirate. And implying that we, Tencent, are also a pirate sales facilitator." Ma Huateng passed Lin Feng a URL.

Lin Feng opened it and saw that it was indeed a critical report about his sales of games. The report pointed out that Lin Feng was a pirate and called on all those who bought the disc to refund their money, otherwise they would be sued by foreign companies.

This incident was also nicknamed the "Piracy Gate" incident by many netizens who responded. Players who bought the CD did not care about it and just continued to wait and see in the mood of watching a movie. Who in China has never used piracy, let alone 20

It’s a Yuan game and it’s so well-made. Could it be the original version?

"Brother Lin, is this really the case?" Ma Huateng had to be anxious. Tengx.com was developing rapidly. If the company's development was affected by this "piracy scandal" incident, it would be too unfair for Ma Huateng. And he

The cooperation with Lin Feng was the most failed cooperation. If not done well, the entire Tengx.com would be in ruins.

Lin Feng naturally understands Ma Huateng's concerns.

"Okay, Chairman Ma, don't worry, I'll send you a file and you'll know. But be sure to delete it after reading it." Lin Feng smiled and emailed the agreement signed with Minhle, the father of CS, to Ma Huateng.

"Well, Lin Feng, I'm really yours, I've been worried for nothing!" Ma Huateng was happy after reading this. Although this agreement is shady, at least Lin Feng will not have any trouble, as long as the Valve development team does not sue Lin Feng.

Feng and Lin Feng will not have any legal responsibility, and Tencent will not be implicated in any way.

"Okay, I will find someone to post an article later to refute the article about the gunman." Ma Huateng calmed down and his thoughts became more active. "This 'piracy scandal' incident, I guess it was your competitors targeting you.

An action. I just ordered the staff to check, and the IP address of the first post should come from the internal IP of Yix.com. Hum, he wants to use this opportunity to ruin your reputation and attack your Dingdang.com."

When Lin Feng heard this, he felt angry. Although shopping malls have entered the battlefield, it is too shameless for a big company like Yix.com to use such despicable methods. However, when he thought about it, in later generations, Yix.com would do everything to help sellers improve their credit.

Come out, this is normal.

"Don't worry, Director Ma, I will repay their 'gift' well if I have the chance." Lin Feng smiled sinisterly.

"Haha, don't forget to notify me then. I am Tengx.com with more than 30 million registered members. This time he actually wants to fix my Tengx.com, huh!" Ma Huateng snorted twice.

"By the way, Director Ma, I have something else I want to cooperate with you on." Another idea suddenly appeared in Lin Feng's mind.
Chapter completed!