[Shameless! Baidu won the lawsuit, but lost its morals and reputation!]

Supporting piracy? How is Baidu any different from robbery? Shameless!

[Shameless! KuMao Music CEO publicly rebukes Baidu's CEO Li Yanhong in court!]

[Accomplices to piracy! Shameless!]

[A hundred musicians have joined forces to condemn Baidu, calling it "shameless" and "destroying the record industry!"]

Pretending to be ignorant when you know the truth, claiming technology is innocent? Their intentions are despicable! Shameless!

[Shameless! ...]

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The next day, when Li Yanhong opened the webpage to check the current affairs news...

I was almost suffocated by the screen full of "shameless".

As he wished, Baidu became incredibly famous, and even the aunties at the vegetable market were discussing it.

But what it brought them was a bad reputation!

After the trial, Baidu was like a hornet's nest being stirred up, with countless negative comments flooding in and insults spreading across the internet.

The phrase "shameless" has now become a trending topic on Baidu, and photos of Chu Yang pointing at him and cursing him in court are prominently displayed on major news headlines.

Li Yanhong almost smashed his computer while watching it.

"This is outrageous! This is outrageous!"

"Shen Nansheng! Chu Yang! You've gone too far!"

"You're determined to kill me!"

"……Grass!!!"

After hurling a string of curses and swears, I still felt frustrated and couldn't vent my anger. I was about to smoke a cigarette to calm down when I realized I couldn't find a lighter.

"Xiao Wu!!"

Just then, Xiao Wu also came to look for him.

He placed several newspapers on the table.

Li Yanhong looked down and was immediately confronted with the enlarged and bolded words "shameless," which made him so angry that he tore the newspaper to shreds.

Xiao Wu gave an awkward smile, took out a lighter to light his cigarette, and then cautiously said, "Mr. Li, there are... three more things."

"Speak!" Li Yanhong sat down in the boss's chair with a cigarette dangling from his lips and took a deep drag.

"Our search engine search volume has dropped to less than 30%."

"Cough cough..."

Li Yanhong choked on a puff of smoke and coughed violently a few times.

"Of the remaining 30%, 20% is spent searching for cases from yesterday."

"Cough cough cough..."

Li Yanhong coughed so hard he almost passed out.

Xiao Wu quickly shut up, afraid that if he said anything more the boss would kick the bucket, and got up to pour a glass of water and hand it over.

After drinking some water, Li Yanhong's expression softened slightly: "What about our music search?"

"They're almost gone, because pirate music websites have been forcibly shut down. Now, all the search results are songs from Coolcat Music, the kind where you have to pay to get the official version," Xiao Wu said dejectedly.

Li Yanhong took a deep breath, his face extremely pale.

At that moment, he finally understood what despair was.

After all that hard work and planning, in just a few days, we were dealt a devastating blow without warning, with our Achilles' heel being exploited and attacked relentlessly.

He remained silent for a long while, then slowly said in a hoarse voice, "Just these three things?"

Xiao Wu held up one finger and said weakly, "Mr. Li, this is something."

Li Yanhong paused, then angrily said, "Continue, finish it all at once!"

Xiao Wu nodded, lit a cigarette, and then said, "I found out that KuMao Music gained more than two million registered users overnight, and it's still growing rapidly!"

Li Yanhong remained silent, something he had expected.

This was something he could think of; it was the other party's purpose in doing this to him.

The struggles in the business world are nothing more than a battle for profit.

Baidu provides fertile ground for piracy to thrive, which inevitably harms the interests of legitimate businesses.

Now he has lost, and the other party is using clever tactics to create momentum and stand on the moral high ground of justice.

Everyone knows that Baidu is shameless, and everyone also knows that KuCat is the largest legitimate music platform in China.

Compared to free memberships, CoolCat's membership fee is not expensive and offers a better service experience, so many people naturally flock to it.

He just couldn't swallow this insult.

At this point, Xiao Wu continued, "Fifteen colleagues have already submitted their resignations; this is the third thing."

Li Yanhong slammed his fist on the table: "Let whoever wants to leave go! They'll regret it when we get back on our feet!"

He didn't give up, but he was angry and lamented that the monkeys were in a hurry to run away before the tree even fell.

But Li Yanhong is a man who is determined to go head-to-head with Google, and he has the ambition to make China's number one search engine. How can he give up so easily and fall down so easily!

What doesn't kill me will only make me stronger when I get back up!

Just then, a resignation letter was slowly handed to me.

"Um, Mr. Li, I'm sorry, I also want to resign."

Li Yanhong: ……(?ò?ó|||)

...

Baidu has suffered its biggest blow since its founding. Li Yanhong's ambitious "Lightning Plan," which aimed to defeat Google, has been thwarted.

But will such a blow cause Baidu to collapse? No.

At least that's what Chu Yang thinks.

"Li Yanhong will not admit defeat easily. Although it has suffered a great loss of strength, Baidu is not going to fall down like this."

In the office of Cool Cat Music Company, Chu Yang sipped the fragrant tea brewed by Lou Chunyue and spoke to Shen Nansheng.

It was the 20th, two days after the trial.

Within two days, public opinion was overwhelming, plunging Baidu into despair. "Shameless" has become Baidu's label.

Under the severe crackdown on copyright orders from the authorities, 99% of pirate websites have been eliminated, and Baidu MP3 has become a tool to drive traffic to KuMao Music.

In just two days, the number of registered users on KuMao Music has surged from one million to four million, and it is still increasing rapidly.

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