Chapter 647: Long-Term Planning

Regarding the case in which several companies accused S Club of loading logic bombs into the beta version of Perak Beibei anti-virus software, the Beijing District Court treated it with caution.

This is not to say how dedicated the judges are, but that these people in the Beijing circle at least know how powerful Fan Ting's company is. In terms of the strength of Fan Ting Investment Group, it is stronger than Microsoft. It's too powerful. How can you not be cautious when dealing with such a company?

Besides, this also involves the influence of Commissioner Fan Heng. If you offend him, your future career will inevitably be affected to a certain extent.

However, so far, the S Club has not put forward any too strong reaction, and has accepted the court's summons very calmly. The first court appearance to give evidence will be held in the near future, and many people from the Beijing media will come. During the hearing, it was said that the spectator permit, which was originally given as a gift, was privately sold at a high price by people from the court. Now it is hard to get a ticket, and there are many people who spend thousands of dollars to buy the permit.

After Fan Wubing sent Shen Ying back to the Shen family's home in Beijing, he rushed to the S Club headquarters building to discuss the matter with his elder sister Fan Ting. He also summoned the company's queen lawyers to discuss the matter of appearing in court.

"Didn't you say you have a solution?" Fan Ting asked Fan Wubing.

"I have the idea, but it's just immature, so I need to seek help from professionals." Fan Wubing said with a smile.

There are at least a few points worth noting in Fan Wubing's case. One is that the company simply integrated the module with the logic bomb into the beta version of the software for people to use without knowing it. Download and try it out, it seems that there is no prerequisite for anti-piracy.

The second is the programmer who loaded the logic bomb. The programmer has settled overseas. From the perspective of criminal suspicion, this is also an overseas crime. It seems to be debatable what law should be used and what legal agency should investigate, at least not The third reason is that although the logic bomb is loaded into the beta version of the software, there is no triggering condition, which means that this logic bomb can never be made, so there can be no victims.

Fan Wubing also thought of the conditions for counterattack. Why did several competitors quickly grasp this situation under the premise that Pili Beibei Software did not have any logic bombs? It can only mean that the other party has been cracking and tracking the software of his company.

According to the protection of copyright law, any cracking of other software with commercial purposes infringes upon the rights of the original author and should be investigated in accordance with the law.

In fact, the current domestic laws for the protection of the software industry are also very imperfect, and the laws for Internet communication are in shambles.

Regarding this newly emerging industry, the legal community is basically confused and has no deep understanding at all. Even most legal practitioners do not realize that there will be more and more cases based on the Internet in the future, and this There are fewer and fewer adaptive legal provisions in it, and they cannot meet the needs of the actual situation.

Everyone sat together and discussed for a while, and finally came up with a clearer idea. Basically, the lawyers agreed with Fan Wubing's several points. Of course, some details need to be slightly modified. This is the method of court debate. Well, it is impossible to reveal all the trump cards at the beginning, but to reveal them one by one at the necessary moment to achieve the effect of catching the opponent off guard and speechless. Only in this way can the people's hearts be convinced. , making the trial favorable to oneself.

"Actually, the main reason is that Microsoft has been taking too many actions recently, and something like this happened to us. It will inevitably make many people feel that S will also follow Microsoft's example and crack down on piracy." Fan Ting said to Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing rubbed his forehead to show his understanding.

In recent times, Microsoft China has been very enthusiastic about anti-piracy. The purpose is not only to promote the concept of anti-piracy, but more importantly, for performance needs. It is understood that many users, especially corporate users, have decided not to purchase Microsoft's e-products, or switch to BSP; however, some small businesses said that the company's IT management was not standardized before, and many were contracted and outsourced. Now, It was also difficult to figure out which software was legally authorized and which was pirated, so I had to buy them all and just hope to find a better supplier with a discount.

Many companies have also reported that there are currently many software dealers cooperating with Microsoft, faxing or calling the company to say that they have obtained evidence of your piracy. If you want not to sue, how many licenses must be purchased within the deadline? Certificate etc.

In this regard, a business CEO complained that this is simply nonsense. The basic computers in his company are all OEM inds, and the office software is all developed by himself. The system runs on the server. These software vendors are simply incomprehensible. blackmail.

Some people in the industry also said that Microsoft is obviously anti-piracy, but in fact it is promoting sales. This kind of intimidating marketing technique has been used for a long time. It is not just Microsoft that does this. Many foreign software companies such as Desk and Be are marketing in China. All have adopted such marketing methods for promotion, but it is generally not carried out directly by the software company. Most of them are left to agents to falsely use the name of the software company.

In this way, when legal or moral risks arise, software manufacturers can completely avoid them.

"Our company has also received similar threats, but I immediately called the police. The other party was already under control at this time, and I was planning to sue them. I didn't rub sand in my eyes." Fan Ting mentioned this matter. said when.

Fan Wubing nodded. Fan's Investment Group usually pays great attention to this kind of thing. Therefore, the company's computers are all installed with genuine operating systems, and the office software is all authorized or developed by themselves. There is really no need to be threatened by others. , of course, the main reason for this is that Fan's Investment Group is rich and does not need to use pirated copies. Although this can save some money, it is not troublesome enough.

Enterprise users naturally don't need to worry about these funds like individual users do, not to mention a company as big as Fan's Investment Group, which naturally doesn't need to save money in this regard.

"Actually, I now feel that producing anti-virus software is a very troublesome thing. The input and output are completely out of proportion, and we have to face a large number of pirated users. It is really not worth the gain. If so much investment is used in other aspects , or it will be more cost-effective, and similar things will not happen again," Fan Ting suddenly said to Fan Wubing.

"You don't want your brother-in-law to work too hard, right?" Fan Wubing replied with a smile.

"Screw you, you are the best at making connections." Fan Ting reached out and patted Fan Wubing, then scratched her head and said, "But what you said makes sense."

After sending several lawyers away, Fan Wubing got some drinks and asked his elder sister if there was any major news about Shanghai recently in China.

Fan Ting looked at Fan Wubing very doubtfully, and then replied, "You haven't heard of it?"

"Oh, that's right." Fan Wubing nodded, understanding in his heart.

Although I had gone to Australia to take shelter because I had provoked an infighting in Shanghai's official circles, it was expected that things were calm there at this time. After all, things at this level cannot be done with great fanfare, even if I get the To provide real evidence, it is necessary to investigate and collect evidence and handle it in secret, and the external news will be low-key, such as saying that the other party has to leave his job due to physical reasons. This is the most commonly used method.

Because of the different national conditions, Fan Wubing hopes to see something similar to the lively thing in the United States where independent investigators can collect evidence of the president's crimes. This will not happen here.

"What I am most concerned about now is whether I should continue to make anti-virus software? There is also the e-software series. The investment is also very large, but the output is only several times. Facing the overwhelming number of pirated software, I feel very depressed. "Fan Ting said.

Fan Wubing poured a cup of tea for his elder sister, and then replied slowly, "My considerations are different from yours. Naturally, you can't only look at the immediate benefits when doing things. Because of the e, Microsoft's e Software is not unique in China. After there are competitors, even if they rely on piracy to compete for the market, they must also consider whether it is suitable for Chinese people to use. Some customary usage and subtleties are enough to determine market share. How high is the rate?”

"You mean, we can also follow Microsoft's lead and use piracy in exchange for market share?" Fan Ting asked.

"Haha, it's almost done." Fan Wubing said with a smile, "Since they can do it, we can do it too, so just pirate it. We are also cultivating market habits, just like the QQ software that will be launched soon. They all rely on cultivating market habits to survive. Once the time is right, it will be an era of good harvest for us.”

In Fan Wubing's eyes, anti-virus software is still very profitable. At this time, the virus threat is not very big. However, with the rapid development of the Internet, everyone does not use a set of genuine anti-virus software, which makes it difficult for them to use genuine anti-virus software. Effective protection, once it reaches that period, is obviously the kind of anti-virus software that has the largest market share in piracy, and will receive the most generous returns. This is similar to Microsoft's piracy marketing methods.