Chapter 1300 06

"The governor's wife is expected to make a big splash this time."

The next morning, Song Ya went to the office of former White House legal counsel Professor Mikva to browse the Internet during recess. There was a newsletter on the financial section of YAHOO News, which briefly introduced the "America website case will be sentenced today."

The accompanying picture is the moment before the lawyers entered the courtroom. Alicia walked in the front in a heroic manner. On the top of the steps, she turned around and waved to the camera with William Zhang, the president of the American music website. Behind her was a group of lawyers from her law firm and PGE. Lawyer at the firm.

This case has become much less popular than when many artists collectively protested before the Digital Millennium Act last year, but as the first case in which the litigation process spans before and after the enactment of the Digital Millennium Act, it still attracts the attention of professionals in the recording industry and legal circles. That's why Mikva said this.

"Um."

In fact, the work and responsibilities of PGE Law Firm in this case are greater, just because I have coordinated with them, and gave up the most prominent external spokesperson to Alicia, "There should be no problem, right?" Song Ya asked.

"It's hard to say, I personally think it's very difficult to lose the case." Mikva replied: "I have an advantage in the previous courts."

"I just don't know how long it will be delayed, and then I will hit the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals."

Even though she has been fishing all year round in her studies, Song Ya can still figure out the basic procedures. Now the case is being filed in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California. Generally, it will end when it goes up to the Circuit Court of Appeals, because the Supreme Court only receives less than one case a year. Hundreds of cases, the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals is almost equal to the final judgment.

The piece of California belongs to the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals among the 13 circuit courts of appeals in the United States, located in San Francisco.

And no matter how crazy the rich third generation is, it is impossible for the RIAA to accompany him to bring the American music website case to the Supreme Court. Now Napster and other music sharing software and websites are obviously easier to sue, and it is easier to get favorable cases.

"It seems that you don't take it seriously?" Mikva asked.

"How to say?"

"Being sued by the RIAA, I read newspapers saying that many similar websites are financing normally."

Mikva’s feeling is right. Napster has a record growth rate of registered users, and there is no shortage of check-wielding VCs coming to its door. After the news that RIAA included it as a defendant in the second similar lawsuit, there is almost no financing. How is it affected.

Anyway, as long as you have money, the lawsuit can drag on for a long time. During the period, if you change hands, the investment will already roll up and turn up. I don’t know how many times. The current trend of the Internet concept sector is like this. Investors and investment institutions should eat and drink, not at all. Panic.

What's more, his family was originally the most cowardly. When the RIAA's advertising ban came out, they obediently deleted all pirated songs and transformed themselves into an independent music website. But seeing that Napster is so popular with capital, and the mainstream music sharing format on the Internet is MP3, the owner's mentality is greedy and regretful, so he gave up internal supervision again, and the website style jumped back...

The benefits that that domain name can enjoy are too great, and after two or three months, I turned around and searched for the past, and the number of visits to the MP3 website skyrocketed. Naturally, an IPO was put on the agenda, and the last round of financing seemed to be tomorrow.

It is rumored that if the American music website wins the lawsuit today, the MP3 website will be worth 500 million dollars tomorrow, and then issue a prospectus for an IPO next month. This is the speed of the Internet.

"I can't envy other people, anyway, I was very upset..."

In the end, the only one who was beaten up was his own American music website, and the users ran away after things were deleted. Even if he wanted to learn from the MP3 website, he turned around and didn't have a good domain name. Besides, it was too late.

However, there are hidden rewards for silently contributing to the top of the industry. They can support in a roundabout way. For example, Ms. Sloan, a subsidiary of Littman Media, got a job in some industry associations and other kinds of things. Miscellaneous benefits.

"Ha ha!"

Mikva laughed and switched to talking about Daly Jr.'s mayoral bid.

Peter's personality is still strong, and his close friend Kozko is under the control of the FBI, but he should not bite anyone. During the primary election stage of the Donkey Party, he firmly supported Daly's opponent, a black single mother from the Chicago prosecutor system.

This made me a little embarrassed, it didn't matter which side I stood on, but fortunately my status was enough, and both sides donated some money, which meant that there was no big problem if we didn't help each other.

Another teacher in the law school, the husband of Illinois State Senator Michelle, is also hiding, very low-key.

Both the Underwoods have decided to bet on Daly Jr., and Underwood has also called on the party primaries not to be too ugly.

"In short, I hope everyone can calm down after the results of the August primaries come out."

Song Ya raised her wrist to look at the time, said hello to Mikwa, and then picked up her books and went back to class.

"Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday I had a very friendly and harmonious communication with Mr. Izumi Shoichiro, who came to visit the United States. We agreed that the current cooperation between Sega and 3DFX is still positive... Please ask our CEO McGraw for details. Sir Lun will answer for you."

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, he put on a suit, attended the press conference held by 3DFX in Chicago as the chairman, and gave an opening speech.

"Sir McLaren, what do you think of the large-scale negative comments of Quanmi players on the Sega DC game console?"

A reporter asked.

"Our game consoles provide powerful GPUs..."

"According to our engineer's research report, the loss of DC performance is mainly from the CPU..."

"The out of stock problem has nothing to do with 3DFX, we are coordinating with NEC..."

"Yes, it will not affect the yield rate of PC graphics cards, the OEMs are different."

McLaren frantically dumped the blame on Sega and NEC. Yesterday, he had a bad conversation with Shoichiro Atsuko.

"Sir McLaren, have the three founders of 3DFX left your company?"

But reporters were more concerned about the trio's escape.

"I got a letter of resignation from them."

"I appreciate their contributions over the years at 3DFX, but this sort of thing is normal in Silicon Valley, people come and go..."

"Yes, the president, Mr. Ballard, will also leave. This is his successor, Yasa, my old colleague."

"No, the Voodoo5 project is still proceeding as planned..."

"I admit that it will be affected, but please rest assured that Voodoo4 will be launched as scheduled."

Officially confirming this will cause the stock price to drop tomorrow, but it has to be done.

At this time, the mobile phone in his pocket vibrated, and Song Ya, who was sitting silently watching, just lowered his head and deserted.

'We won the case! ’ The text message from Ms. Sloan was very short, but Song Ya could imagine her happy expression when she said this.

‘The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has just dismissed all charges against the RIAA, and I will be interviewing reporters with my PGE colleagues shortly. '

This is Alicia's.

As she was typing with both hands, she was about to reply with words of encouragement and thanks, when she sent another message: 'The prosecutor's lawyer just told the reporter that there is a high probability that he will continue to appeal! '

Song Ya let out a long breath, silently cleared the words just typed, and put the phone back in his pocket.

"Please let me go, thank you..."

In Monaco, the satellite TV is broadcasting the scene of our barrister walking out of the court. He has just lost the case, and surrounded by reporters asking questions, he is smiling, with his head held high, and he does not appear to be very depressed.

"This trash."

Bronfman Jr. commented angrily.

"Will the RIAA go ahead with the appeal?" This was the question most concerned by reporters.

"Of course, this has always been within our consideration." The barrister replied: "This verdict is unacceptable to us."

"Can you give a more definite answer?"

"Sorry, I can only say that there is a high probability that an appeal will happen,"

The barrister hurriedly got into the car.

"He should have said more, the record industry needs him to say more at a time like this, you idiot."

Bronfman Jr. was very dissatisfied with the lawyer's performance, "I don't want to use him for the Napster case, what do you think?" he asked Barry Diller.

"It doesn't matter anymore. The trial of that case will have to be postponed until the beginning of next year at least." Barry Diller replied, smoking a cigar. Anyway, Seagram Global Group is going to be sold, and he only cares about how to make more money.

"I just learned of the verdict in the American music site case and I'm honestly very disappointed personally!"

Little Bronfman was upset, and immediately asked his subordinates to recruit acquainted reporters, "I think everyone is aware of the current situation in the record industry. As the owner of the world's largest music company, I do not deny that we have reached a critical moment. The current situation That’s right, last year’s revenue from physical records in the global recording industry was about $30 billion, and authoritative organizations predict that the market will shrink by one-tenth this year, which means a loss of more than $3 billion in revenue. This ratio is astonishing! "

"If the thieves and ISPs who condone the thieves are not severely punished, the industry will die. I am not alarmist!"

"America Music.com and its parent company, Littman Media, are doing evil and committing crimes! It's obvious!"

"APLUS? I'm sorry I don't want to be personal, I know, I know he is the chairman of Litman Media..."

"How should I comment on him? I can only say that I don't like him. I don't want to be hypocritical and talk about scenes. I just don't like him."

"Of course he betrayed the record industry, where he made his fortune..."

"I have no problem with his personal success. Seriously, I agree with some people in this country. In fact, the African-American elite is more likely to succeed in the existing system than others. Lower college admissions scores, more jobs Opportunity, proportional to the population, isn't it?"

"Appeal? Of course, we will continue to appeal. The outcome is still unknown."

"What did he say about me?" The press conference here ended, and Song Ya was surrounded by a large number of reporters.

"I don't want to talk about this, I have to ask a lawyer first..." Facing the reporter's report and provocation, he smiled wryly and waved his hands.

"OK, listen!"

Finally getting impatient, he stood still and turned to face the camera, "If you know the music websites on the market, you will find that the American music website is the most law-abiding and very clean, so we don't hesitate to suffer A large number of users lost...not only should we not be accused, but we should be a model in the industry..."

McLaren and others stood behind him as the background board.

"I know that the record industry is in a downturn, and I have personally suffered a considerable loss. People from the record company told me that my third album may lose millions of copies due to sharing..."

"Of course I welcome the decision of the California courts, it's a major victory, and I respect the RIAA, but they did find the wrong person."

"The Internet is the future."

"Bet broke? That's a rumor..."

"I know that Mr. Bronfman Jr. doesn't like me, but I'm still very grateful for his help when I was under the Universal banner... In short, there may be a little problem between us, and it's not my fault."

"Who is at fault? No one is at fault, OK?"

"Africans are Africans. There is no such thing as an elite or an elite. Any remarks that want to divide and disintegrate our unity have ulterior motives..."

"I didn't grow up in an elite family. When I first went to New York from the slums of the South City, I was wearing... second-hand clothes, yes. Ask whoever said that!"

"Appeal? Then go to appeal, I will accompany you to the end!"