Millennium director

Chapter 261 If I play the quick broadcast Wang Xin card, how should you respond?

Promote the formalization of online videos, attach importance to online audio-visual copyrights, eliminate piracy chaos in the industry, and guide the market towards formalization.

This should be regarded as the biggest, most profound impact, and the biggest change that Wu Yuan decided to do since he woke up from his dream!

no way.

If pirated resources are rampant on the Internet in advance, the trend of major online video platforms not caring about copyrights will be corrected.

Then he simply cannot build a video platform in the mainland similar to Netflix or Disney+ based on his own self-made dramas and copyright library.

Let him follow the trend and build a video platform like Youtenai, which started with pirated resources. It may be much easier in the early stage, but after 2012, when the wealthy Internet giants entered the scene and started the copyright war, he was still playing I can't afford this money-burning game.

Only now, when both Alibaba and Penguin are busy developing themselves and have no time or money to pursue a pan-entertainment strategy, can we guide the mainland to formalize audio-visual copyrights on the Internet, and then we can take the lead in building our own stream in the light and shadow era. media platform.

Because several Internet giants, including Alibaba, are still busy developing their own e-commerce, Penguin’s dream of 300 million mice has not yet become a corporate cow, and Baidu is still competing with other search engines such as Soso and Sogou to compete for the market. .

Even if the mainland's online video industry becomes formalized, these three companies have no money to make movies and TV shows, and they haven't even sorted out their own three-quarters of an acre of land.

Wu Yuan only needs to compete with platforms such as Tudou and Youku, which have also just begun to develop.

Wu Yuan, who holds a small amount of US$1 billion and has the copyrights of his own movies and TV series, is so rich and powerful in front of these two start-up companies that have not even raised Series B yet!

Wu Yuan thought about it and figured out that only by relying on this time difference method, he could seize a piece of the streaming media platform market before the Internet giants entered the market.

While the three major Internet giants were still busy fighting with other competitors in their core fields, Wu Yuan first spent money to buy copyrights, produce homemade dramas, build his own streaming media platform, and compete with Youku and Tudou.

Seven or eight years later, the three major Internet giants integrated their resources and began to think about entering other markets. The streaming media platform in the light and shadow era has become the largest video website on the Internet.

Even if the three giants have money in their hands and spend billions and billions to compete with Wu Yuan for copyright, it will not be easy for the late-comer competitors to kill the first-mover leader.

However, the premise of all these ideas is that he must push the National Copyright Administration to start a comprehensive crackdown on online piracy in 2008!

Only in this way can we buy him six or seven years of development time!

To achieve this, the role of the web drama "Soul Ferry" in Wu Yuan's plan is crucial!

All layouts must be based on the explosive effect of this online drama!

As it is now, all kinds of movies and TV series are making a lot of money on TV stations and movie theaters, and piracy is rampant on the Internet. In fact, the loss of profits is not large, and many people have not even noticed that this benefit has been damaged.

"The two new actors were very obedient. The company arranged a TV series and they signed the contract without saying a word."

"Director Liu has some concerns. He doesn't want to make a TV series but wants to continue making movies. He is a little hesitant about the "Soul Ferry" project."

Li Xiaoping reported seriously. She actually didn't understand why Wu Yuan asked Liu Meichuan to film a TV series, and it was a TV series that was not a star and was intended to be broadcast on the Internet.

All current industry practitioners have no idea about "online dramas".

In everyone's eyes, the only option for making a TV series is to broadcast it on a TV station. TV stations can buy hundreds of thousands of dollars per episode, which is real money.

Put it on the Internet?

Who can give a price of hundreds of thousands for this episode?

And the influence is completely different. Tens of millions of people watch the TV station, but how many users does the online platform have?

Moreover, due to the current network bandwidth, the video clarity of the network platform is simply not comparable to that of a TV.

It can be said that online TV series are now doing all kinds of harm but no good.

Wu Yuan insisted on promoting such a project. As the actual person in charge of the company, Li Xiaoping did not understand and did not support it.

"Director Wu, I have investigated and found that the speed of Internet bandwidth popularization in our country is not very fast. It is generally only about 1M. If you watch videos online, one video will be several hundred MB, which imposes a high bandwidth load on most netizens and cannot be used. Smooth viewing.”

"The picture quality is still not clear enough. If you want to watch a clearer picture, a movie will cost several gigabytes. Online playback is not practical at all, so you can only download it in advance."

"It is also because of this that piracy of Internet video resources is rampant. All kinds of videos are spread on the Internet by downloading them locally, making them easy to share with others."

“Netizens’ general experience with several online on-demand websites is not very good, with frequent lags.”

"Are we too hasty to make a TV series for online broadcast now? For this project of "Soul Ferry", why not let us star on a TV station first and then broadcast it online. It would be safer this way."

"Starting?" Wu Yuan rolled his eyes: "Based on the content of this TV series, it is impossible for him to be approved for starship."

"It can only be done online. Currently, radio and television do not have any regulations for online broadcasting of TV series, and there are no review issues. The scale is relatively arbitrary, so we can take advantage of this loophole."

"Don't even think about it being broadcast on a star."

"As for worrying about insufficient bandwidth, users will not be able to process on-demand online videos?"

Wu Yuan raised the corner of his mouth slightly, stood up and invited: "Mr. Li, let's go, I will take you to meet someone."

"Ah?" Li Xiaoping held back her persuasion, and followed Wu Yuan out of the office in a daze, came to the elevator, and took the elevator to the 16th floor.

"I rented a new half-floor office area on the 16th floor, and the company's streaming website team is located here."

Wu Yuan led Li Xiaoping inside and said, "This team is amazing."

“Although it is just an entrepreneurial team of less than five people, the people leading them are very powerful.”

Li Xiaoping knew about Wu Yuan's recruitment of a video team, but had no contact with them.

Because of this video team and the subsequent establishment of the "Light Shadow Quick Broadcast" streaming video platform, Wu Yuan plans to completely separate from the film production company and become an independent Internet company.

"Don't worry, after the company produces "Soul Ferry", I will let [Light and Shadow Express] buy the exclusive online broadcast rights of this TV series at a reasonable market price, and the film and television company will not suffer any loss. "

"As for your concerns about the network playback not being smooth, not being able to spark a viewing craze, and not having enough influence, I'll let another person answer your question."

Taking Li Xiaoping with him, Wu Yuan pushed open the door of an office.

A young man wearing glasses, with a relatively lean figure and a short haircut, was tapping away at a bunch of computers.

"Mr. Wang, are you busy?"

Hearing Wu Yuan's voice, Wang Xin, who was busy, immediately turned his head and stood up in surprise: "Director Wu, why are you here?"

Although he was two years older than Wu Yuan, he felt a little embarrassed in front of Wu Yuan.

After all, Wu Yuan is too famous, and with the blessing of fame, and Wu Yuan is now his boss, his senses are different.

"Mr. Wang, this is Mr. Li Xiaoping from our Light and Shadow era. She will be responsible for producing the first online exclusive drama of [Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast]."

"You will be cooperating for a while, so why not take this opportunity to introduce you to each other."

After explaining to Wang Xin, Wu Yuan turned around and introduced Wang Xin to Li Xiaoping.

This guy was hired by a headhunting company.

Originally, after resigning from Shanda, Wang Xin was developing a software called "Quick Broadcast" in a private house of just over 10 square meters in Shenzhen, planning to start his second business.

Wu Yuan contacted him after the headhunting company came to him.

With his usual money-spending style, Wu Yuan quickly recruited this great talent in the online video field.

The terms he offered were generous.

They cooperated to establish an online streaming media company called [Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast]. Wang Xin invested in technology and occupied 20% of the company's original shares. He is also the company's chief technology officer with an annual salary of 1.2 million.

Wang Xin, who is only 27 years old this year, has no experience of being squandered with so much money. He was stunned on the spot and immediately agreed to the invitation. He stopped starting a business and came to the capital with his team to work for Wu Yuan. .

No, he who owns 20% of the original shares is considered a partner in the company and works for himself.

The reason why Wu Yuan values ​​Wang Xin is of course because he is definitely one of the top experts in the country in the field of P2P playback technology!

[Quick Broadcast] This software, which has been regretted by countless LSPs in later generations, was born based on P2P playback technology.

Although Wang Xin was eventually jailed because of this software, there is no good or bad technology, the bad thing is the way it is used!

In 2008, Qvod was launched.

It only took 4 years. After 2011, "Kuaibo" has become the player with the largest market share in the country.

In September 2012, the total number of installations of "Kuaibo" exceeded 300 million, and as of June of that year, the number of Chinese Internet users was 538 million.

Tudou and Youku are all younger brothers in front of Qibo!

And why do so many netizens choose to use the software Kuaibo?

It’s because this software is so easy to use!

It is super fast to download all kinds of pornographic videos. It takes several hours to download with other players, but it only takes 20 minutes to download with QuickPlay.

Moreover, while others are still using Solu and Xunlei to search for torrents and download various .AVI videos bit by bit, Qvod can already be played online on demand!

And the online on-demand video is still very smooth, without any lag at all!

Its video on demand and downloading based on P2P technology is far ahead of its domestic counterparts!

With such technical strength, it would be a waste to build a player for playing pornographic videos here!

Although Wang Xin’s original intention is definitely not like this, he wants to bring a faster and more convenient software for watching videos to netizens.

But the final result was that he was imprisoned and the company and software were shut down.

Rather than ending up like this, it would be better to poach him earlier and use him as a streaming media platform for Wu Yuan.

Being a streaming media platform requires excellent P2P playback technology!

"Mr. Wang, Mr. Li doesn't know much about P2P playback technology. Come and introduce it to her." Wu Yuan said to Wang Xin with a chuckle.

Wang Xin, who has chatted and laughed with Shanda's boss Chen Tianqiao, certainly doesn't have stage fright.

He brought Li Xiaoping to his computer, pointed at the screen and talked: "P2P playback technology has great advantages in video playback."

"The first advantage is to save server bandwidth. This is a well-known advantage of p2p technology."

"To put it simply, the more people use it, the more people download it, the faster everyone will do it. Moreover, users share resources with each other, and they will not use the traditional server bandwidth to download. This saves bandwidth.”

"The second advantage is that it can be downloaded from multiple sources."

"This is something that people often overlook. If a user uses ordinary http, he usually downloads from a single server. If the server is slow, he can only endure it."

"But if it is a p2p system, the p2p backend can have multiple servers. For example, we purchased more than 10 American servers. The bandwidth is cheap and the traffic is not limited."

"In this mode, downloads are downloaded from more than a dozen servers at the same time, and the speed is still faster. Moreover, even if one server goes down, it will not affect the download at all. This is actually a great benefit of p2p."

"Even if the server is under operation and maintenance, going online or offline will not have any impact on users, and users can still continue to enjoy online video viewing."

"Another advantage that is very important to your film and television industry is that P2P technology has natural anti-theft links."

"If the P2P protocol does not use the standard BT protocol, it is completely possible to customize some private transmission protocols."

"With this protocol, it is almost impossible for users to hotlink your resources unless they write a p2p software with the same protocol, so this advantage is much better than HTTP."

"Therefore, using P2P for video playback, especially for video resources that need to protect copyright, is more effective."

"We make our own transmission protocol based on P2P software, so other websites cannot steal our resources. Although it cannot be said to completely eliminate piracy, it will increase the cost and complexity of piracy."

"Finally, there is another advantage. For operators, using P2P technology can reduce costs."

"Unlike the ordinary HTTP model, p2p servers may not necessarily be placed in high-quality computer rooms, but only a small amount of computer rooms can be placed."

"Many servers can use low-cost servers in the United States. 1G bandwidth costs more than 1,000 yuan a month. This price instantly beats many domestic computer rooms."

"It can be said that P2P video playback technology was born for online online video platforms. In fact, this technology is indeed widely used in various online video services in the United States."

"It's just that in China, there are still very few people using this technology, and everyone is still using the very old HTTP mode to transmit videos, which causes online on-demand videos to be very laggy."

"This old technology should have been eliminated long ago!"