When I was a child, the TV often played serials adapted from Jin Yong's novels, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Condor Heroes", and "The Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon".
These classics enlightened Brother Beep's martial arts world, fantasizing all day long about falling off a cliff, picking up peerless secrets, practicing a world-beating martial arts, punishing treachery and eliminating evil, and traversing rivers and lakes.
The most impressive scene was when the six major factions besieged Bright Peak, Zhang Wuji turned into Ye War God, and singled out 1,000 people alone.
Let you be in charge of the teaching, decades of cultivation, slap one in front of the Jiuyang Divine Skill, and the people who pass by are on their backs, showing their youthful arrogance, which makes people's blood boil.
(Screenshot from Baidu Encyclopedia)
After decades later, I didn't expect that the bridge in the novel turned into reality, and a domestic company was besieged by an international hegemon on the mountain of video, staging the war of the century.
This company was once a household name, boys saw their hearts beating faster, girls opened their faces and red ears, and every year they spread the cauldron of everyone video (now renamed Duoduo Video).
This year, something big happened again.
(Screenshot from the official website of Duoduo Video)
The Big Six besieges everyone video
Brother Beep uses Aiqicha to inquire about recent legal disputes in the main company of Renren Video.
If you don't know it, a check is exerted a small shock.
In the past 2 months, Disney, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and other stomping feet, the giants of the film and television industry earthquake.
There seemed to be a consensus, and the former servants sent everyone a sincere invitation to a lawyer's letter, inviting them to dinner in court.
In just one month, there were 10 new court announcements, and on average, everyone had to go to the courtroom for tea every three days.
(Screenshot from Love Enterprise)
Little friends may wonder, these foreign companies' videos have not been listed in China, nor have they applied for Chinese copyright, why sue domestic companies?
As explained here, there are two international copyright protection conventions, the Bernier Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention.
The purpose of the two conventions is that no matter which Member State your work is protected by copyright, the other signatory Member States are also in force.
Our country is one of more than 100 member states, so foreign companies can use these two conventions to sue other countries for infringement.
(Screenshot from Baidu Encyclopedia)
Brother Beep flipped forward and found that before overseas companies made trouble, many large enterprises known to passers-by in China had joined the ranks of flying cakes for court summonses early.
Such as Migu, ByteDance, and earlier Sohu, iQiyi, etc., have fought one or several rounds of lawsuits with Renren Video.
Moreover, the cause of the lawsuit is surprisingly consistent, all of which are "Disputes over Infringement of the Right to Transmit Information on the Internet", which in human terms: work infringement.
(Screenshot from Love Enterprise)
As of February 2.6, 57 court opening announcements, 10 case registration information, 7 adjudicated cases, a total of 74 legal disputes, and 28,461 risk information have been publicly available.
In other words, for a total of 25 months from 2021 to now, people have had to be sent to the courtroom every 10 days.
Suddenly, I felt a little sorry for their legal team, and the pile of documents and materials 007 could not be handled.
(Screenshot from Love Enterprise)
Disney, Netflix, Universal, Sony, iQiyi, Migu, ByteDance collective pie invitation...
Today's video of everyone, just like Zhang Wuji at the time of the bright top, was besieged by international hegemons, and then fought by domestic giants, falling into a desperate situation.
What earth-shattering thing did this guy do to end up like this?
Is it the New Year to the White House to burn firecrackers and sing Wishing you prosperity? Or did it open the old bottom on the NYSE NASDAQ?
Brother Beep said to everyone.
Poison in martial arts!
As we all know, Zhang Wuji has two major supreme schools, namely the inner martial arts heart method [Jiuyang Shengong] and the external martial arts body method [Qiankun Great Shift], relying on the two major martial arts to turn over and be taught by Xiao.
Renren Video also has two major martial arts, one is free foreign dramas, and the other is translated subtitles.
In the scarcity of foreign film and television works more than ten years ago, and the barren Internet where netizens had no way to cook, the Renren Film and Television Forum created by YYeTs Subtitle Group in 2006 brought a spring to film and television lovers.
Free provision of American drama resources, equipped with down-to-earth Chinese subtitles, made a name for itself in one fell swoop, and became the two major conscientious viewing software in China in the early days.
Even if more than ten years later, due to the disagreement of ideas, the old man film and television was divided into everyone video and new people film and television.
Since the abolition of the martial arts of translation subtitles, the original intention of providing users with foreign drama resources for free remains unchanged, and it has even become an important means of retaining new videos for everyone.
(Source: @Organization No. 2 Leader)
Now open the Duoduo Video APP (formerly Renren Video), and you can still find many foreign movies and series that have not been introduced or released in China.
There is no shortage of special works such as "House of Cards", "The Walking Dead", "Evil Force" that are almost impossible to pass the trial and cannot be released on domestic video platforms.
It is precisely because it can watch American dramas that cannot be seen elsewhere and achieve "no one has me", Renren Video has always been the main player for American drama lovers, accumulating a large number of loyal users.
(Screenshot from Toto Video)
In recent years, film and television apps in different sub-categories such as Renren American dramas and Korean drama TV have been launched successively to expand coverage and target more groups.
From the software copyright office of the main company of Renren Video, it can be found and verified, and there are dozens of related software.
(Screenshot from Love Enterprise)
Relying on the rapid provision of weekly popular American dramas and Korean dramas, ultra-wide coverage of foreign film and television resources, and undeleted picture plots, everyone does not need to invest in self-made films, and does not need to burn money for marketing and promotion.
It has accumulated as many as 160 million users and 40 million monthly users, making it the fifth largest video platform in China after iYouteng B.
It has successively received investment from Xiaomi, Baidu Video, Kuaishou and other companies.
It even attracted the favor of Chongqing Radio and Television, and the two sides cooperated to create a movie APP [Tomato Movie]. (Tomato movies are genuine film and television resources)
With the escort of capital, Renren Video began to buy copyrights, launched paid membership programs, and gradually turned positive on the path of its predecessors.
How can it be that the price of domestic film and television copyrights is high, a few financings cannot be played, their own users do not pay, and everyone's video is sandwiched between Zhuanzheng and cottage.
(Screenshot from Love Enterprise)
Pirated foreign drama resources are like sunflower treasures, easy to learn and practice, powerful, and have achieved today's videos for everyone.
The risks are as great as the costs, and that is having to deal with endless copyright lawsuits and huge compensation at all times.
Since its establishment in 2014, Renren Video has been in the vortex of infringement, litigation and rectification every year.
The most serious one occurred in June 2021, when a large number of film and television drama editing works appeared on the short video program [Quick Look], suspected of mass infringement.
Criticized by official media reviews, video giants sued, software removed from all platforms, 90% of non-genuine resources were deleted, and one out of ten was not saved.
(Renren Video Rectification Announcement)
Renren Video started with piracy, wandered the gray space for a long time, and eventually became trapped in the piracy cage it had built.
Pirated resource infringement, giant class action lawsuit... However, if one link in the cage cannot get out, the bombs faced in the future will explode one by one.
In the face of the attack and killing of giants, will everyone film and television fall? Can we still watch movies as happily as we used to?
Divine power is poisonous, I have elixir
Don't lay a lot of verbosity, and directly unravel the answer: everyone's video is most likely not cold.
Although the martial arts of pirated foreign dramas are poisonous, everyone's video training has been poisoned into the bone marrow for many years, but people have left a backhand.
There is an ancestral elixir [Safe Harbor Principle] that has the effect of reviving the dead and 100% blames the pot.
Official explanation:
The "safe harbor" principle means that in the event of copyright infringement, when the ISP (Internet Service Provider) only provides space services and does not produce web content, if the ISP is notified of the infringement, it has the obligation to delete it, otherwise it is considered infringement. ISP is not liable for infringement if the infringing content is neither stored on the ISP's servers nor informed of what content should be removed.
Speaking of people: Users upload infringing content, it is related to my platform, and if the infringement is deleted, it will be over.
(Source: Love Network)
Assuming that all pirated foreign drama videos are uploaded spontaneously by users, then Renren Video, as the platform party, does not need to bear infringement liability and can cooperate with the removal and deletion.
Smart Renren Video certainly does enough to avoid copyright risks.
First of all, the user upload function is added to the app, and secondly, it is stated in the user agreement that if the uploaded content is infringing, the legal responsibility shall be borne by the user.
Shake the pot clean, I get the benefits, I don't carry the responsibility, and the leaves don't stick to the body.
(Screenshot from Toto Video User Agreement)
Open the Duoduo Video APP, pick an American drama at will, and take a closer look at the publisher.
You will find that all video uploaders of American, Korean, and Japanese dramas are individual users, not official platform users.
For example, in the sixth season of House of Cards below, the uploader is a netizen called Episode.
(Screenshot from Toto Video)
Enter his homepage, no avatar, no followers, never post.
But he has always insisted on uploading complete, high-definition foreign series to serve the public.
Brother Beep is very grateful to this benevolent person, allowing us to enjoy the wonderfulness of foreign dramas for free, as for whether there is such a number one character in reality, it is unknown.
(Screenshot from Toto Video)
Of course, there are many genuine film and television dramas, but the number is rare.
For example, the following "Black Sails", foreign works imported in China, other video platforms are also on the shelves, exclusively for member users to watch.
(Screenshot from Toto Video)
This largely avoids legal risks, and the effectiveness of the safe harbor principle is quite significant, and most of the companies that sue for infringement have failed.
For example, the popular small broken site, Byte Company, etc., all ended the case with withdrawal.
(Screenshot from Love Enterprise)
The result of the undefeated God of War Penguin was also a withdrawal of the lawsuit.
It is not ruled out that Renren Video may adopt a private settlement to make the other party withdraw.
(Screenshot from Love Enterprise)
Therefore, the power of foreign giants is huge and amazing, and it is difficult to break the safe harbor principle of the Civil Code.
Everyone Video sits firmly on the high platform, allowing the east, west, south and north winds to stand tall.
There must be a price to pay in the process, and all infringing works must be removed.
For example, if Netflix sues for infringement, all copyright-free Netflix movies and TV dramas in Renren Video will disappear from the platform, and users will no longer be able to play them.
As the number of plaintiffs increases, pirated videos of Renren Video will disappear in large numbers in the future.
In a sense, in fact, it is forcing its legalization and completely getting rid of the dependence on pirated resources in the past, which is not a good thing.