It is well known that Americans like to hold PRT (Public Relations Tours).

That evening, during a dinner gathering of Hollywood entertainment moguls, the heads of several record companies chatted and the conversation inevitably turned to the recent news that Wujiang Group wanted to purchase music copyrights.

Sam Cromwell, president of Universal Music Group, picked up a glass of red wine, took a small sip, and said smugly to his colleagues, "By the way, something really funny happened recently—Wujiang Group sent people to our Universal Music Group to negotiate online music copyrights. Haha, Wujiang Group actually had some wild ideas. They weren't willing to pay an exorbitant price for the copyrights; instead, they wanted to give them 30% of the downloads when our music was downloaded on the Pandora music website!!! Hahaha... How could our Universal Music Group possibly agree to such a ridiculous condition!"

Upon hearing this, several executives from Warner Music, PolyGram Records, and Sony Music burst into laughter.

Kyle Johnson, president of Sony Music, began, “Wujiang Group also approached our company with the same cooperation terms, which we were naturally unwilling to accept!”

Downloading a song on the Pandora music website costs only $0.99.

We sell a legitimate physical album for between $20 and $40, which brings in far more revenue than downloading music online!

Once we agree to partner with Wujiang Group, online music will inevitably impact physical album sales!

As soon as he finished speaking, his colleagues around him nodded in agreement.

Moreover, once the cooperation is reached, the dominant position will be in the hands of Wujiang Group, and the record company will have to rely on Wujiang Group instead.

The 1990s were the most glorious period for the physical record industry, with major record companies making a fortune.

To be honest, at this stage, major record companies don't really think much of the PNDOR music website.

Pandora is a paid music website that specializes in legal music. As a result, it didn't have much traffic when it first started out. It had less than 100,000 registered users and even fewer than 10,000 paying users.

The record company naturally disdained to cooperate with them.

Wujiang Group approached all six major American record labels, but each of them flatly rejected their offer of cooperation.

Wujiang Group wanted to buy out the online music copyrights, but the other party made an exorbitant demand, asking for $100,000 for an old song, selling good and bad songs together, and even wanting to enjoy a share of the download revenue.

A record company can easily make $100 million by releasing just a thousand songs.

Zhao Ye never tolerated the record company's unreasonable demands. Just then, the United States strictly prohibited all products of the Wujiang Group from entering the US market.

Zhao Ye decided to stop negotiating with the American record company and directly withdrew the negotiating team.

The record company thought that Wujiang Group wanted to cooperate with them because they were begging them, but in fact, the opposite was true.

The record companies don't understand the internet, so Wujiang Group wanting to cooperate with them is a huge blessing. They only understand what suffering is after experiencing the devastation of internet music piracy.

Zhao Ye left the P3 player development department and, as soon as he got into his car, took out his phone and dialed a number.

"Get someone to invest money in the pirate music website npster. We can find some of our partners to invest in the website under the guise of advertising, so that they have money to expand their servers."

"The ho123 website navigation site places the npster website in the most prominent position on its homepage, and marks it with a red 'hot' label next to it, indicating that this website is very popular!"

"Furthermore, have the Wujiang portal website publish the pirate music website NPster on its news headlines to promote NPster and let netizens all over the world know that there is a website that shares music for free online! In the future, they will not need to buy physical records; they can listen to songs and download music for free on their computers!"

On the other end of the phone, Tim Berners-Leeza, CEO of Unbounded Networks, couldn't help but feel sympathy for the record company upon hearing this.

However, he also expressed his support, saying that these arrogant record companies must be taught a lesson.

Otherwise, it would have been difficult for the Pandora music website to develop.

After Zhao Ye hung up the phone, his secretary Liu Yinyin couldn't help but laugh and say, "Boss, with your move, all the major record companies in the world are in trouble!"

Zhao Ye smiled faintly: "The major American record companies don't know what's good for them, so let's just teach them a lesson! In the end, I'll make them come begging to us for cooperation!"

Zhao Ye's trump card is the Pod music player.

Zhao Ye predicted that once the pod was launched, it would definitely become a global phenomenon.

The music download channels for pods are actually controllable. You can restrict it to downloading only legitimate music from the Pandora music website, or you can allow it to download music from any pirate music website without any restrictions.

At this point, Zhao Ye even felt that it was a good thing that the American record companies didn't cooperate with Wujiang Group.

In this way, when the Pod was first released, pirated music could be downloaded, which would definitely boost the Pod's sales and make it a globally popular phenomenon.

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The founders of the pirate music website npster never expected that their site would soon attract advertising investment.

Zhao Ye knew that the traffic to the npster website would increase significantly in the future, so he wanted to keep the profits within the family and had someone find a product supplier with good relations with Wujiang Group to suggest that they advertise on the npster website.

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