The Recording Industry Association cannot easily let Ma Guoliang and the Longteng Group behind him off the hook.
Seeing that they had lost their advantage in court, the record company quickly countered, "Your iPods on online communities were encouraging users to download resources online!"
"In just one month, the number of downloads for iPod devices reached several million."
"These are all evidence!"
Looking at the so-called evidence they presented, Ma Guoliang said impatiently, "In your country, guns are legal. People are using legal guns to rob and kill people on the street. Are you going to sue the gun companies that manufacture them?"
"Are you also going to use the number of dead as evidence that the gun company committed crimes?"
The trial lasted for several days, but unfortunately there was no evidence, and even in court, the Recording Industry Association of America couldn't do anything to them.
Ultimately, the court ruled that Longteng Electronics, the OEM manufacturer of the iPod, did not infringe on the record company's copyright.
iPod wins the case!
After winning the lawsuit, Longteng Electronics became even more famous.
The record companies and North American music media companies undoubtedly gave Longteng Electronics free advertising.
This lawsuit serves as a further official statement emphasizing that the iPod is merely an audio player, and Longteng Electronics is the iPod's distributor/manufacturer.
They produce music players and cannot restrict what users use the media tools for.
If copyright companies claim their rights have been infringed, they should raise the bar for digital music downloads.
"In fact, in this matter, Sony's music player and Longteng Electronics' music player are the same in nature."
"And why? The Recording Industry Association specifically targeted Dragon Electronics, not Sony."
After the high-profile lawsuit concluded, some people posted comments online.
"Because Sony's headquarters are in an island nation, and the current president is Ichiro Yoshida."
This matter is very worthy of detailed investigation.
This time, while record companies collectively launched an attack, Sony remained silent.
This gave everyone a glimpse into the dynamics of these two companies. After receiving the lawyer's letter, Longteng Electronics, undeterred by difficulties, persisted in confronting the record company head-on.
Sony, on the other hand, didn't dare to utter a single word.
Ma Guoliang's actions have given Longteng, and even the businessmen in the Huaxia region, a sense of relief.
After Ma Guoliang returned, Chen Dong personally hosted a welcome banquet for him.
"After winning the lawsuit, Longteng Electronics' reputation will be further enhanced, but it is precisely at times like these that we must be more careful and cautious." Chen Dong held his wine glass, his eyes already slightly tipsy, but he still did not forget to remind Ma Guoliang.
Ma Guoliang silently toasted Chen Dong, saying, "Understood, boss."
Following the welcome banquet, Chen Dong pressed his advantage and announced on Amazon that the second-generation iPod had officially launched.
The iPod overseas community was in an uproar, and the servers crashed several times.
"Releasing new products right after winning the lawsuit! Is this an attempt to slap American record companies in the face?"
Chris created a separate section online: Don't blame the iPod, I downloaded digital audio resources from the record company!
"Haha! Team leader, I can see your passion for the iPod."
"I'm not only going to download music to my iPod, I'm also going to upload resources to the community! Anyone want to support me?!"
On the other end of the computer, Simon and Mike both had dark expressions. The head of Sony's European and North American regions said awkwardly, "On the first day of the iPod's launch, 30,000 players were gone in an instant."
"And their second-generation product is priced higher than ours, at $599."
Simon gasped.
"It's exactly $99 more than the Sony IDS, did they do it on purpose?"
In contrast, Sony's data is frighteningly calm. Although sales are still moving, they are worlds apart from Dragonair's.
One boiling zone, one cooling zone.
Longteng Electronics' memory chips have achieved a new breakthrough in storage capacity, but Chengdong is still not satisfied and has begun to open up talent recruitment activities for Longteng Electronics.
We are recruiting skilled and capable individuals from all sectors of society and major universities.
A few days later, the recruitment notice was also posted on the iPod online community.
Chris, a soon-to-be-graduated college student, came to China eagerly after seeing the recruitment notice.
His roommate, however, was not optimistic about the future of Longteng Electronics and instead joined Sony.
Chen Dong visited Pengcheng High-Tech Park and discussed future technological development with the engineers.
"The third generation of MP3 players will definitely be smaller, more convenient, more functional, and portable, and can even connect to the Internet at any time."
Chen Dong knew that these requirements were hard indicators for engineers, but if you don't take the initiative to master technology, you'll only have your throat held by others.
"I think the most important thing for an MP3 player is to have a larger capacity so it can store more songs!" A hoarse voice came from the group of engineers.
Upon closer inspection, Chen Dong saw that it was a blond, blue-eyed young man.
"Go on."
Chris wasn't intimidated at all and said in broken Chinese, "Our future MP3 development should focus on digital memory cards."
"In the future, our memory cards will be the size of a postage stamp, weighing only a few grams, with high capacity and high speed, up to 32GB."
The older staff in the engineering department couldn't help but laugh when they heard what the young man said; he really had a rich imagination.
How is it possible for a memory card to be the size of a postage stamp and have a capacity in the GB range?
"What are you laughing at?" Chen Dong asked.
Seeing that Chen Dong's expression was not quite right, everyone quickly stopped smiling. Engineer Chen looked around and gave them a warning look, then explained to Chen Dong, "There has indeed been a trend towards miniaturization in memory chips."
"But... even computer memory modules are so big. How is it possible for a memory module of the same capacity to be the size of a postage stamp?"
"Chris is new to the field and may not know what this technology is all about."
Almost all technologies are currently undergoing digitization, and memory cards are no exception; this is the future trend.
Chen Dong admires Chris as a visionary young man.
The engineering department has a few old hands whose vision and perspective are already confined to the laboratory; they can't see the enormous changes happening in the world.
A young man like Chris, with vision, a broad perspective, and the courage to unleash his imagination, is just the right person to inject fresh blood into the high-tech industrial park.
"If memory cards could be made as small as a postage stamp, MP3 players could remain the same size, and iPods could even perform a significant portion of the functions of computers."
Chen Dong looked at Chris and said, "This means we can use MP3 players instead of computers."
Actually, Chen Dong wanted to talk about button phones, but after thinking about it, he decided to leave more room for Chris's imagination.
After listening to Chen Dong's words, Chris secretly felt that his decision to come to Longteng Electronics was the right one.
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