Chicago 1990

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

In the morning of the next day, Song Ya ran to the office of the former White House legal counsel Professor Mikwa to rub the Internet. There was an alert in the finance section of YAHOO News, which briefly introduced the ‘America website case will be pronounced today’.

The picture is the moment before the lawyers enter the courtroom. Alicia walks at the forefront in a brave manner. At the top of the steps, with William Zhang, the president of the American music website, turned back and waved to the camera, followed by a series of her law firm and PGE law. Lawyer of the firm.

This case is much less popular than the mass protests of many artists before the Digital Millennium Act last year. However, as the first case before and after the promulgation of the Digital Millennium Act, it is still attracting attention from professionals in the recording industry and legal circles. That's why Mikva said this.

"Ok."

In fact, in this case, the PGE Law Firm took on more work and responsibilities, just because I had coordinated with them and gave Alicia the most popular foreign spokesperson. "There shouldn't be any problems, right?" Song Ya asked.

"That's not good. I personally find it very difficult to lose." Mikva replied: "We have had an advantage in the previous courts."

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

Even though he has been fishing all year round, Song Ya can still figure out the basic procedures. Now the case is played in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California. Normally, it will end when you hit the Circuit Court of Appeals, because the Supreme Court only receives less than one each year. For hundreds of cases, the circuit court of appeals judgment is almost equal to the final judgment.

The California area belongs to the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals of the 13th Circuit Court of Appeals in the whole meter, and is located in San Francisco.

And even if the rich three generations are crazy again, RIAA will not be able to accompany him crazy and take the American music website case to the Supreme Court. Now Napster and other large music sharing software and websites are obviously better to sue, and it is easier to get favorable cases.

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

"How to say?"

"I was sued by the RIAA. I read the newspaper and said that many similar websites were raising funds normally."

Mikva’s feelings are right. Napster has a record-breaking growth in the number of registered users, and there is no shortage of venture capital investors who wield checks. After the news that the RIAA included it in the second defendant of the same lawsuit, there was almost no financing. How is it affected.

Anyway, as long as you have money, the lawsuit can be dragged on for a long time. During the period, you can change hands and invest in early rollovers. 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 intimidating. As soon as the RIAA's advertising ban was issued, the pirated songs were deleted obediently and turned to become an independent music website. But seeing that Napster is so sought after by capital, and the mainstream music sharing format on the Internet is MP3, the owner's mentality is greedy and regretful, so he again gave up internal supervision, and the style of the website jumped back again...

The benefits of that domain name are too great. After only two or three months, I turned my head back for nothing, searched for the past, and the number of MP3 website visits increased wildly. Naturally, the IPO was put on the agenda, and the last round of financing seemed to be tomorrow.

Rumor has it that if the American music website wins the lawsuit today, the MP3 website will be worth $500 million tomorrow, and the prospectus will be issued next month for an IPO. This is the Internet speed.

"I am envious of other people, anyway, I am very upset..."

In the end, the only one who was beaten up was his own Amerika music website, and the user ran away after deleting his stuff. Even if he wanted to learn MP3 websites, he didn't have a good domain name, and the timing was too late.

However, there are hidden rewards for giving Remo to the whole industry. They can support it in a roundabout way. For example, YAHOO has seriously helped promote Ms. Sloan under Litman Media and got some positions in industry associations, as well as some other kinds of positions. Miscellaneous benefits.

"Haha!"

Mikva laughed and turned to chat about little Daley's mayoral campaign.

Peter's character is still strong. His close friend Kozko is controlled by the FBI but should not be biting anyone. In the Donkey Party's primary election stage, he firmly supported Daley's opponent, a black single mother from the Chicago prosecutor system.

This made me a bit embarrassed, and I didn’t know where to stand. Fortunately, I had enough status. Both parties would donate some money, which meant that there was no big problem if they didn’t help each other.

The husband of another law school teacher, Senator Michelle of the Illinois State Assembly, is also hiding, very low-key.

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

"In short, I hope everyone will calm down after the results of the primary elections in August."

Song Ya raised her wrist and looked at the time, greeted Mikva and picked up the book and went back to class.

"Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday I had a very friendly and harmonious communication with Mr. Shoichiro, the acquaintance who was visiting the United States. We agreed that the current cooperative relationship between Sega and 3DFX is still positive... Please our CEO McGraw for details. Sir Lun will answer for you."

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

"Sir McLaren, what do you think of the large-scale negative evaluation of Sega DC game consoles by all players?"

A reporter asked.

"Our game console provides a powerful GPU..."

"According to the research report of our engineers, the loss of DC performance mainly comes from the CPU..."

"The out-of-stock issue has nothing to do with 3DFX. We are coordinating with the NEC agency..."

"Yes, it won't affect the yield rate of PC graphics cards. The OEM is different."

McLaren frantically dumped the pot to Sega and NEC. Yesterday, he had a bad talk with Shoichiro Nikoto.

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

But the reporters are more concerned about the trio running away.

"I received their resignation letter."

"I thank them for their many years of contributions to 3DFX, but this kind of thing is normal in Silicon Valley, people come and go..."

"Yes, President Ballard will also leave. This is his successor Asa, my old colleague."

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

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

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

At this time, the phone in his pocket shook, and Song Ya, who was sitting silently on the sidelines, just bowed his head and took a short run.

‘We won the case! The text message sent by Ms. Sloan was very brief, but Song Ya could imagine her happy and triumphant expression when she said this sentence.

‘The Federal District Court for the Northern District of California has just dismissed all the allegations of RIAA, and I will be interviewed by reporters with my colleagues from PGE. ’

This is Alicia.

As she was typing with her hands and preparing to return some words of encouragement and thanks, she sent another one: ‘The prosecution lawyer just told reporters that there is a high probability that they will continue to appeal! ’

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

"Please let me, thank you..."

In Monaco, satellite TV is showing the image of our lawyer walking out of the courtroom. He just lost the lawsuit. He was surrounded by reporters and asked questions with a smile, his head held high, and he didn't appear to be depressed.

"This waste."

Little Bronfman commented angrily.

"Will the RIAA continue to appeal?" Journalists are most concerned about this issue.

"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 appeals are likely to happen,"

The barrister hurriedly got into the car.

"He should say a few more words. The record industry needs him to say a few more words at this time, this idiot."

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

"It's not important anymore, that case will have to be delayed until the beginning of next year at least." Barry Diller replied smoking a cigar. Anyway, Seagram Universal Group is about to sell, he only cares about how to sell more money.

"I just learned of the verdict in the Amerika Music website case. To be honest, I am personally very disappointed in it!"

Young Bronfman was frustrated and immediately asked his staff to recruit reporters familiar with him. "I think everyone is aware of the current situation in the recording industry. As the owner of the world's largest music company, I do not deny that we have reached the point of life and death. That's right, the physical record revenue of the global record industry last year was about 30 billion dollars, and the authoritative organization predicts that the market will shrink by one-tenth this year, that is, less than 3 billion dollars in revenue. This ratio is amazing! "

"If you can't severely punish those thieves and Internet service providers who condone thieves, this industry will die. I'm not alarmist!"

"America music website and its parent company Litman Media are doing evil and committing a crime! This is obvious!"

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

"How do I evaluate him? I can only say that I don't like him. I don't want to pretend to be hypocritical. I just don't like him."

"Of course he betrayed the record industry, he made a fortune in the record industry..."

"I have no opinion on his personal success. Seriously, I agree with some people in China. In fact, African-American elites are more likely to succeed than others in the current system. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com lower universities Admission scores, more job opportunities, isn't it in proportion to the population?"

"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 the lawyer first..." He smiled bitterly and waved his hand in the face of the reporter's reporting and provocation.

"OK, listen!"

In the end, he became impatient. He stood still and turned to face the camera. "If you understand the music websites on the market, you will find that the American music website is the most respectful and law-abiding and very clean. We don’t hesitate to bear it. A large number of users are lost... Not only should we not be accused, but industry models..."

McLaren and others stood behind him as the background board.

"I know that the recording industry is in a downturn, and I personally suffered a considerable loss. The people from the record company told me that my three specialties might be sold by millions less due to sharing..."

"Of course I welcome the decision of the California court. This is a major victory. I respect the RIAA, but they did find the wrong person."

"The Internet is the future."

"Bet on bankruptcy? That's a rumor..."

"I know Mr. Bronfman Jr. doesn't like me, but I still thank him immensely for his help when under Universal's banner... Anyway, there may be a little problem between us, and that's not my fault."

"Who is wrong? No one is wrong?"

"African descent is African descent. There is no elite or elite. Any remarks that want to divide and break our unity have ulterior motives..."

"I didn't grow up in an elite family. When I went to New York from the South City ghetto for the first time, I still wore...second-hand clothes, yes. You should ask whoever said that!

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