When Zou Wenhuai thinks of pirated videotapes from the mainland, his teeth itch with hatred.

The video tapes in the hands of these pirates don't cost a penny to shoot. They only need to pay for the video tapes and other transportation and sales expenses.

As for these genuine film companies, they also have to consider how to recoup the cost of the film through the sale of video tapes, support the actors, stars, directors, and miscellaneous employees, so that the company can continue to operate.

As a result, it naturally cannot beat those cheap pirated video tapes.

This also means that if Fang Chen wants to sell video tapes to the mainland, he must first solve the problem of pirated video tapes. Not to mention killing all those pirated video tapes, but at least he must be like the pirates in Xiangjiang. Although

Yes, the impact on them will be relatively large, but in the end it will still allow them to make some profits.

To be honest, he is not optimistic about whether Fang Chen can solve this problem.

Xiangjiang is such a small place, and they, the big guys in the film and television industry, want to solve it, but they have not succeeded. After all, these pirates are run by people with dark sides. At most, they can guarantee that they will not be eliminated.

It's just too arrogant.

Thinking of this, Zou Wenhuai glanced at the Xiang brothers subconsciously. The fathers of these two men were from the military and were the founders of Xin Ngee Ann. Naturally, they took advantage of this. The movies produced by the Xiang Brothers Company were not only better than

Pirated copies of other film companies' movies are released half a month later, and there are even fewer pirates selling pirated videotapes.

This is why the films produced by the Xiang Brothers Film Company are often very successful in recent years.

The thought came back to Fang Chen. Xiangjiang was so difficult to solve, let alone the huge mainland. He had investigated and found that pirated video tapes in the mainland had formed an industry chain with tens of thousands of employees, basically in every city.

There are hundreds of related people who make a living by buying pirated video tapes.

Furthermore, no matter how powerful Fang Chen is in mainland China and how strong his background is, he probably won't be able to control law enforcement officers at will. After all, this is China, not the United States.

And as far as he knows, it seems that mainland China has not paid enough attention to the protection of film and television copyrights. The relevant legislation already exists, but it is too lacking in terms of law enforcement, which is basically zero.

"Director Fang, with all due respect, can you think of a way at the government level to eliminate all piracy industry chains in China? If not, let's stop thinking about it." Zou Wenhuai said straightforwardly.

Lin Baixin and the Xiang brothers also nodded lightly. If Fang Chen could wipe out China's piracy industry chain, they would naturally be willing to support Fang Chen and hand over the copyrights of his movies to Fang Chen.

operations.

Anyway, they couldn't receive a penny in the mainland before, but if they leave it to Fang Chen, even if they only earn a few hundred thousand or a few million, that's not bad, it's better than nothing.

But if you can't, it won't be interesting.

Fang Chen shrugged and said calmly: "I really don't have this ability."

At home, if he asked Liu Yuanjun and others to help him and do a little trick, that would be okay, but it is impossible to do something like this to eliminate the entire piracy industry chain across the country. It really can't be done.

You can't say that if he just smiled at someone from the Industrial and Commercial Office, they would help him to eliminate the piracy industry chain in his jurisdiction, right?

Not to mention that he doesn't have such a big face, even if he does, China is so big and has so many industrial and commercial offices. If he visits one by one with this face, by the time he visits the whole country, this VCD will be eliminated.

Furthermore, according to his understanding, there is a high probability that even if he is ashamed, the Industrial and Commercial Office will not help him. After all, at this time, there is no precedent for cracking down on pirates in the country, and he still knows very well,

How difficult is it to dare to be the first in the world at home?

However, the most important thing is that the industrial and commercial offices, or the local government, do not have the motivation to crack down on pirates.

After all, pirates have nothing to lose to the mainland.

These piracy industry chains, from production to transportation and sales, always have many links. These links have at least solved the employment problem of tens of thousands of people.

As for those salesmen who sell pirated video tapes, especially those who peddle pirated video tapes along the street, not to mention that they all have criminal records, but they have done petty theft a lot in the past. Now, although it is not serious, it is of a serious nature to give them a

With a less vile business, the local crime rate can drop a lot.

Now that they have been beaten, are they still allowed to do bad things?

If you include the video theaters all over the country, the employment and economy it will drive will be overwhelming.

If pirated video tapes are really destroyed, then these video halls will definitely lose a lot of money, so the industrial and commercial office and the local area will not destroy these piracy industry chains at all.

Especially for those in industrial and commercial offices, with these video rooms there, they can just take advantage of them if they have nothing to do, so why bother to destroy them.

Moreover, cheap video tapes can also enrich people's cultural life. If these cheap video tapes were gone, wouldn't the common people scold them?

Of course, everything has advantages and disadvantages. There is nothing under the sun that has only advantages and no disadvantages. Even technological progress, which is called the first productive force, is nothing like this.

Every technological advancement will completely eliminate old technologies and the workers who rely on them for a living. The rise of automobiles has eliminated coachmen, unmanned ticket vending machines have eliminated conductors, and intelligent robots have eliminated assembly line workers.

The same is naturally true for pirated movie tapes. Illegal piracy of movies belonging to the movie company and then selling them will naturally harm the interests of the movie company. If the movie company cannot make money, it will not be able to shoot the movie. The director, actors, scriptwriters, and even agents

Film and television academies such as Ren Company, Beijing Film Academy, and China National Theater will lose their jobs and disappear.

Over time, the film industry ceased to exist, and even the pirates disappeared and ceased to exist.

It can be said that the behavior of pirates will, in a small way, lead to losses for film companies, loss of national tax revenue, and unemployment for some people. On a large scale, the entire film industry may perish due to piracy.

But the problem is, what the pirates pirate is Xiangjiang's film works, so what does it have to do with the mainland? Neither Shaw Brothers Film Company, Golden Harvest Film Company, nor TVB and ATV will pay a penny to the mainland.

Taxation, even if it goes bankrupt and unemployment does not need to be dealt with by the mainland.

On the contrary, if the piracy industry chain is eliminated, some people will lose their jobs and other messy problems will occur.

As a result, the piracy industry chain has become a very rare and harmless existence for the mainland.

Therefore, it is impossible to break down these piracy industry chains without a strong and powerful person to firmly promote it.

Seeing that Fang Chen had also given up, Zou Wenhuai twitched the corner of his mouth with a sly smile. He had now seen through Fang Chen, and he was just trying to catch Fang Chen with nothing.

First, defraud them of the movie copyright, and then let’s see if we can make money. If we make money, we will probably give them three melons and two dates. If we don’t make money...

Zou Wenhuai sneered, I'm afraid he won't give them a penny.

"Pirated video tapes have formed an industrial chain. It is extremely difficult to get rid of them. However, we can eliminate them through technological progress, use new playback media to defeat video tapes, and plan in advance for new playback equipment.

Piracy will be restricted or even completely eliminated." Fang Chen said confidently.

Zou Wenhuai, Lin Baixin and others looked at each other, and they could all see the confusion in each other's eyes.

New playback medium?

New playback device?

As big guys in the film and television industry, they have made movies like Crossing the River. Even the Xiang brothers, who are the most junior, have made movies with a box office of nearly 1 billion. Why haven't you heard of any of them now?

New playback media and playback devices.

Seeing that everyone was confused, Fang Chen chuckled lightly, and then ordered Wu Maocai.

Wu Maocai immediately took Guo Kongcheng, the future head of the Guo family, to move TV sets and VCDs.

Looking at the TV in front of them and the strange black box on top of the TV, everyone became even more confused, not knowing what Fang Chen was doing.

Is the black box a video recorder? But it looks much smaller than a video recorder, and it doesn't feel as bulky as a video recorder.

Moreover, the opening in the middle of the black box is obviously much smaller than the size of the video tape, and it is impossible to insert the video tape into it.

"This is a video disc player invented by our Qingtian Xiaobawang Company. It is an audio-visual equipment produced by combining digital video technology, digital audio laser disc technology and computer technology. It concentrates laser technology, digital technology, and precision processing technology.

etc., which are typical consumer products of optical, mechanical and electrical integration.”

Following Fang Chen's introduction, not to mention Zou Wenhuai and others, even Guo Henian and others who had watched the VCD in advance looked confused and were completely confused by Fang Chen.

But why does it sound so high-end?

"The reason why a video disc player is called a video disc player is mainly because its playback medium is a compact disc, and its main function is to transmit the film and television works, including songs, burned on the compact disc to the TV screen through electronic decoding technology, and then play them out."

As soon as Fang Chen finished speaking, the TV suddenly turned on, a familiar piece of music suddenly sounded, and then a big 'SB', the logo of Shaw Brothers Film Company, appeared in the center of the TV.

Seeing that this DVD player can actually play movies, and the picture and sound quality are obviously much better than those of video tapes, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up, and they glanced at Fang Chen from time to time, their eyes full of curiosity.

For people like them who are engaged in movies, it is really a wonderful feeling to suddenly see the so-called technological progress, and this is a new product that has never appeared in front of the public.

It's like the door to a new world has opened.

Moreover, they suddenly realized that Fang Chen didn't come here just for nothing, there was something real.

After all, even if they don't know much about electronic products, they still know that developing such a new product is not a simple matter.

In this way, maybe Fang Chen can really succeed, and Zou Wenhuai, Lin Baixin and others couldn't help but become a little excited.

After watching the movie for about five or six minutes, Zou Wenhuai couldn't help but ask: "Director Fang, apart from the picture and sound quality being better than those of video tapes, does this DVD player have any other advantages?"

What was playing on the TV was Shaw Brothers' classic film "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", which he personally supervised in 1963. He had watched the scenes dozens of times and knew the plot by heart, so it was really

Nothing to see.

"The biggest advantage of optical discs is that they are cheap. The cost of optical discs is only a quarter of that of video tapes. And most importantly, my optical disc factory is the largest in China. Based on the current production line, the annual output is 100 million optical discs.

above……"

Hearing what Fang Chen said, the excitement in the hearts of Zou Wenhuai and others was beyond words. It was about to burst out. Since the cost of optical discs was only a quarter of that of video tapes, it was destined that optical discs could replace video tapes.

The cost of a video tape is about 12 Hong Kong dollars, and the cost of a CD is only 3 Hong Kong dollars.

Generally speaking, the video tapes they produce will be sold for forty or fifty yuan each, while pirated video tapes from the mainland usually cost twenty yuan.

If CDs are used to store movies, it means that even if their net profits are not affected in any way, their movies can be reduced to about 30 yuan a piece. In this case, they will definitely be able to greatly increase their genuine movies.

competitiveness.

Furthermore, they discovered a very important point from the information revealed by Fang Chen just now, that is, Fang Chen actually has a virtual monopoly on the production of optical discs in the entire mainland.

The DVD player was invented by Fang Chen, and the CD was also produced by Fang Chen. Doesn't that mean that Fang Chen has monopolized the film and television market in the entire mainland. Fang Chen decides who wants to watch what movie and at what price to buy the DVD.

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Under such circumstances, is it possible that their movies will not make money?

There are so many people in mainland China, and even if only one-thirtieth of the families buy a CD, they only earn ten yuan per CD, which means that they can earn hundreds of millions in additional income every year, and the top half of the fast-cap income

It’s a Xiangjiang market. After all, it’s impossible for a family to buy just one CD.

"Director Fang, don't you have a monopoly on the mainland's film and television market?" Lin Baixin couldn't help but say.

After hearing this, an inexplicable smile flashed across Fang Chen's lips, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, monopoly is the best business.

"However, it seems that we cannot be happy too early. If optical discs are profitable, then these pirates will definitely find ways to purchase optical disc production lines to produce optical discs."
Chapter completed!