Chapter 1624 The Internet Age

2007 can be said to be a year of rapid development of domestic broadband, although no one proposed a network highway plan.

But with the sudden drop in prices of dual-core processors, graphics cards, computer motherboards, and LCD monitors. This led to a boom in the assembled computer market.

A computer that used to cost four to five thousand to assemble now only takes two to three thousand to assemble.

And compared with later generations of quad-core processors, they may not be able to support large-scale games such as Liu Chang’s Chicken Dinner and EVE. Nowadays, dual-core processors can take basically all domestic games to the next level.

What about Fantasy Westward Journey, what about Tian Long Ba Bu, what Zhu Xian, what Legend and Swordsman, Demon Realm and Warcraft. In short, a dual-core processor can play these games very well.

With policies such as bringing broadband to rural areas in hometowns, the number of computers in Chinese cities and towns has begun to soar like a rocket. The number of online fans has also reached a new peak since 2000.

This time is an extremely happy year for both computer manufacturers and broadband operators.

Computer assembly machines and brand-name machines are selling well, especially when college students start school, and even notebooks are sold at a rapid pace.

The cost of broadband is also so high that people are speechless. Compared with later generations, as long as you apply for a mobile phone card and use a fixed package, the broadband will be free.

At this time, the telecommunications broadband was only 2M. You read that right, 2M is not 2G broadband. It only costs 120 yuan a month, which is almost like robbery.

It is probably because of the catfish effect of Huaxia Telecom, otherwise the price of this broadband package was 180 before, let alone dial-up Internet access at an earlier time. Internet access at home is like surfing the Internet in an Internet cafe and having to pay an Internet fee every hour.

Therefore, at this point in time, the entire computer production line, whether it is upstream or downstream, whether it is supporting facilities or broadband operators, everyone is making a lot of money, and the money is like picking up money without worrying about users.

The rapid increase in Internet users is also driving the development of Internet products. Online shopping has reached a new peak. The number of game players, the number of online movie viewings, and the number of clicks on online news are setting new records every day.

All the merchants in Le's entire Internet market are grinning from ear to ear. It can be said that in this era, as long as you have a little bit of involvement in this industry, you will not lose money, it is just a matter of making more or less.

At this time, Rising Sun Technology, which took advantage of the opportunity for a period of time, once again dropped a bombshell, directly winning the online live broadcast and rebroadcast rights of the Olympic Games in China, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, for a price of 160 million.

This price is more than the total cost of all the live broadcasts of the Olympic Games in some countries. 361 Film and Television directly entered the public eye with an extremely gorgeous posture. At the same time, the leaders of major TV stations instantly smelled a wolf coming.

Although the development of 361 Film and Television has been low-key in recent years, there is almost no news. When people go online, they just open the previous Storm, or Thunder, or Qvod to watch movies.

Now, whenever I want to watch TV or a movie, I will open 361 directly, because it is so convenient to open 361 Movies.

Currently, most home computers, including computers in Internet cafes, use 361’s security system and 361’s browser.

So just open 361 Movies and TV, directly open 361 Browser and click to go. There is no need to open a separate software to watch movies or TV series, and sometimes you have to download it.

It can be said that nowadays netizens do not say left or right, but 99.9% of the time, when they want to watch a movie or TV series, they will directly click on 361 to watch it.

There are even many times when I want to see what good movies or TV series are available now that I can watch for free. The first thing that comes to mind is 361.

Many movies have noticed this when promoting them and spent money to promote them on the 361 page before they were released.

TV series such as "Soldier Assault", which were popular in the past two years, have far more clicks and views on the Internet than on TV stations. This made major TV stations the first to smell the crisis.

Some people even suggested that people no longer watch TV, and many movies and TV series cannot reach the previous ratings myth because online viewing has diverted too many viewers, so online viewing should be banned.

Of course, even though many people clamored for this proposal, it was a pity that it fell through the cracks in the end.

After all, anyone who is not a fool can see that online movie viewing has become a general trend. What is particularly important is the great importance attached to the trillion-dollar market of the Internet.

They are all looking forward to seeing what kind of positive impact it will have on the domestic economic environment, GDP, and industry ecology after the market is fully expanded. How can it be possible to stab the Internet industry in the back with a knife?

Although there were some shortcomings in the development of the Internet industry, countless parents even called out that Internet games were a scourge. All game company owners should be shot.

But in fact, many people have already seen that a new era is coming, and the Internet plays an extremely important and irreplaceable role and component in this new era. How can it be possible to directly commit suicide?

Therefore, the voice of online movie watching is blocked, and occasionally some news headlines are promoted by traditional TV stations. But in fact, 361 Film and Television is developing rapidly.

At the same time, traditional Internet giants such as Youku, NetEase, Sohu, etc., like sharks smelling something fishy, ​​began to spend heavily to enter this industry, and other capital was also ready to move into this industry.

Even Baidu has created a Baidu Movie Viewer, hoping to get a piece of the pie in this new trend.

However, these Internet giants have been suppressed by 361 Movie Viewer for various reasons. Let alone the convenience of 361 being directly installed on the 361 browser, which allows lazy people to choose 361 Movie Viewer by default.

Just relying on Haina, Asia's largest entertainment company, 361 has a variety of movie and TV resources that other Internet companies cannot compare with.

And now 361 does not have any membership system, and all film and television resources are free.

There is no pressure from other websites to watch piracy while charging fees, and to compete for traffic with free broadcasts. Since they are all free, why not watch the genuine ones?

In addition, Haina has tasted the sweetness of song copyrights in recent years, and it attaches great importance to the copyrights of various film and television works.

And 361 is willing to spend money to directly buy the copyrights of movies and TV series that were previously played for free on the Internet.

You should know that these movies or TV series were all played on local TV stations before. Later, the copyright holder did not receive a dime of copyright fees when the videos were put online.

Now, in addition to the rights to adapt and remake these movies, they can even receive an additional copyright fee. It can be said that all these people are on the side of 361.

This forced Youku, Sohu and other companies to spend money to buy copyrights, otherwise they would have to sue.

And the free video software such as Qvod and Baofengying are now being hit more and more severely. No one paid attention to this before, and they could use free resources to monetize traffic.

Now 361 has intervened and spent money to buy copyrights but broadcast them for free, as if they have money but are working hard but not getting anything done, which has put a lot of pressure on these broadcasting websites.

The only reason these websites are not dead yet is because of the demand of netizens for some indescribable love action movies.

As a legitimate website, 361 certainly cannot unlock similar resources, and netizens can only watch them through these websites, so the traffic can be temporarily stabilized.

However, such video players will be filed for review at the end of this year, although the first instance of this case lasted seven years and the verdict was not made until 20114.

But under the official crackdown on unhealthy videos and information on the Internet, this is already a dead end.

Moreover, now countless investors have already felt that online movies and TV shows are a delicious cake. How could they allow websites that steal their copyrights and traffic to continue to survive?

So when the verdict of the Kuaibo case was announced in 2014, many veterans flooded the Internet with messages saying that they owed Xingge a membership.

But in fact, all veterans contributed to Xingge's imprisonment.

Why did Xingge go to jail?

Why did Kuaibo thrive in the wild era of online movie watching, and then he fell down when he saw that online movie watching was about to make a lot of money?

Didn't they think that this video player moved a lot of capital's cheese?

And the clicks and traffic contributed by veterans are an important part of these cheeses.

In addition, the Internet laws are constantly improving, and the official crackdown on online crimes is getting more and more severe, so Xingge was sent to jail.

"Continue to follow up on financing?" In the office of Sohu's chairman, Zhang Chaoyang's fingers were rhythmically tapping on the office.

The three major portal websites of that time are now in decline. Among them, Sohu, which was once very popular, is now the most desolate.

After all, NetEase changed its career and started making games, and now it is doing very well.

Although Xinlang was a bit half-dead before and was about to be finished. But Weibo allowed it to forcibly continue its life. Now it is fighting fiercely with other Internet companies in the battle for Weibo, and Wenwen has the upper hand. It can be seen that the future is promising.

Among the three giants of that year, only Sohu is the most difficult, so Zhang Chaoyang, who is seeking change, has set his sights on online movie watching.

It must be said that the vision of the big guys is extremely sharp and accurate. There is a certain reason why they could become the three Internet giants and control the top domestic network traffic.

In the previous life, whether it was NetEase making games, Xinlang making Weibo, or Sohu making online movie watching websites.

The three giants have made great achievements on the road of seeking change, and Sohu's online movie watching has a bright future.

If 361 hadn't intervened, only Youku could compete with him now, and it can be said that the two sides fought back and forth.

As for the later popular iQiyi, LeTV and Tencent Video, etc., they were all later brothers and rising stars. Although they beat the previous wave to death on the beach, Sohu was the absolute king in this era.

But now this industry has been intervened by 361, which makes Zhang Chaoyang very uncomfortable.

It's just like the feeling of Chen Shoufu's Legend being robbed and Ding Sanshi's Fantasy Westward Journey being robbed.

However, Chen Shoufu can rely on "World of Warcraft" to counterattack and become the richest man, and Ding Sanshi still has "A Chinese Odyssey". What chips does Zhang Chaoyang have to turn the tables?