Chapter 3154: Triumphant Return

Zhou Buqi came in triumph.

He personally chaired the meeting of the Rights Protection Committee and happily announced three pieces of good news.

First, the hacker was caught.

The photo leak incident that caused panic among people was effectively controlled. Except for a small number of photos that were leaked as a deterrent in the early stage, most of the photos and videos were not leaked and did not have a more devastating impact.

Second, in order to long-term support and help those Hollywood stars who have been harmed by public incidents, Boss Zhou decided to establish a Hollywood charity fund to deal with similar incidents that may occur in the future.

It is necessary to effectively help those in the industry who have been harmed in the long term.

Hollywood is a vanity fair, and as much fame as you get, you will suffer as much harm as you can. In the past, Hollywood only focused on the halo of fame and fortune, but never cared about those who were harmed, as if they were victims of being eliminated by the industry.

This is not possible!

Now Boss Zhou has shown his influence and he wants to help these people!

For example, Jennifer Lawrence, who was hurt the most by this nude photo incident, if her career is affected, then this Hollywood charity foundation has an obligation to help her tide over the difficulties.

Third, the rights protection incident ends here.

Apple will donate US$180 million to this newly established Hollywood charity fund to support fair causes in Hollywood. Hollywood and Apple have always maintained a good cooperative relationship, and this hacking incident should not damage their relationship.

As soon as they heard about the money, the other members of the Human Rights Protection Committee became excited.

No wonder Boss Zhou compromised!

It turns out that Apple gave in!

This Hollywood charity fund obviously exists to maintain the unity of Hollywood and the stability of the industry. It can play a positive role in promoting the overall development of Hollywood and is good for all parties. Boss Zhou is really doing practical things!

In general understanding, everyone should sympathize with the disadvantaged groups.

These celebrities in Hollywood are all rich and well-established. They don't seem to be a vulnerable group.

So when they are hurt, no one in society cares. There are even many irresponsible arguments, saying that the reason why they can make so much money is that more than half of it is the money from being scolded, and it is natural for them to be hurt.

But in fact, the rate of depression among celebrities is much higher than that of ordinary people, and the suicide rate of celebrities is also much higher than that of ordinary people.

You have obviously been hurt, but the public still doesn't recognize you and thinks you deserve it. Anyone who encounters this kind of thing may have a mental breakdown. At this time, if Hollywood cannot stand up and show concern for him, it will easily end his future acting career, or even make him depressed.

Boss Zhou is really doing good things!

Being able to have such a social status at such a young age is really not just a matter of luck. His empathy and social care are really sufficient. After the establishment of this public charity fund, it can be regarded as a basic social fairness guarantee for Hollywood.

Finally, Zhou Buqi also announced good news.

In this hacking incident, more than a hundred people's photos were stolen. Most of the people's photos were not circulated, so no harm was caused. But even so, some psychological comfort must be provided.

After all, this rights protection committee was organized based on these talents.

Without these people, Apple would not compromise.

Then each person should be given a consolation payment of US$100,000 and sign a liability exemption agreement, and they will no longer be allowed to challenge Apple on this matter in the future.

Even if this is the end of the matter.

The existing 15 members of the Rights Protection Committee will join the newly established Hollywood Charity Foundation as directors. The chairman of the board will of course be Jason Kilar, CEO of Ziweixing Global, who controls the financial rights and ownership. control.

When it was over, word spread throughout Hollywood.

Boss Zhou can make Apple bow its head and actually spend a large amount of money to protect the public interests of Hollywood. This is really amazing. This is the real industry leader!

All parties responded positively.

Robert Iger also called specifically to express congratulations.

Zhou Buqi didn't let him go, and asked: "What happened to ESPN?"

Robert Egger was helpless, "Still considering."

"This is too slow!"

"ESPN+'s business will adopt Ziweiyun's plan, and this plan has been approved by the board of directors."

"Um."

Zhou Buqi was quite satisfied.

Okay, the initial plan has been achieved.

Bringing ESPN+ into Ziweiyun's business can bring Ziweiyun at least US$200 million to US$300 million in revenue every year.

The better ESPN+ develops and the larger its user base, the greater Ziweiyun’s revenue will be.

The most important thing is that once ESPN+ and Ziweiyun establish a cooperation, Disney's future film and television streaming media will be gone.

Robert Iger said: "However, the sale of ESPN shares is still under discussion. This is a big deal... You know, ESPN has great market competitiveness and provides Disney with the most stable cash flow income. Many directors are I’m not willing to give up this part of my rights.”

Zhou Buqi snorted: "That's because they are stupid, they haven't seen the trend of technology at all!"

"Why!"

Robert Egger sighed.

Zhou Buqi said coldly: "I can tell you responsibly that with the rise of the streaming media industry, more and more technology companies will enter the market to seize the territory that originally belonged to Hollywood. The development of ESPN in the past two decades It is so good that it almost dominates the sports market. That is because ESPN has not encountered a truly competitive opponent. Once the technology giants of Silicon Valley enter the market and compete with ESPN, do you think ESPN will still be what it is today. dominance?"

Robert Egger said: "I have the same concern."

"This is for sure." Zhou Buqi sounded alarmist, "The current Internet business is gradually transforming from a free model to a paid membership model. This is a general trend. Just like the TV station industry in the past, at the beginning TV stations are all free. But the real boutique TV stations are cable TV and pay TV that came later. Streaming media is the key point for many Internet companies to enter the payment model!”

"Ah?" Robert Iger was surprised. "Doesn't that mean that almost all Internet companies will participate?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Of course, no one will miss it. The membership system represents the future of Internet services, and the extension of the membership system is the big membership system. Just like Amazon's membership. Live sports streaming is very good Service items.”

Robert Iger said in embarrassment: "We all understand the truth, but the board of directors is very sad. Well... you know, many of Disney's TV station operation strategies rely on ESPN. Everyone is worried that once Disney ESPN's weakened control will lead to the collapse of Disney's television business."

There are so many TV stations owned by Disney.

Dozens of kinds.

Many TV stations are useless and not many people watch them.

The question then becomes, how do these TV stations make money?

The answer is bundling.

If users want to subscribe to ESPN, they also need to subscribe to some of Disney's less popular TV stations. It relies on ESPN's dominance in the sports event market to promote the development of some inferior TV channels under Disney in a bundled manner.

Such a strategy is actually harmful to ESPN.

It relies on hurting ESPN's brand value to promote those useless channels.

If Disney sells part of its shares in ESPN, its control over ESPN will weaken... Especially Boss Zhou has never been a loser, and he is not as easy to bully as the Hearst Group. Even if Boss Zhou is only a minority shareholder of ESPN, Disney dares to use ESPN's brand name to promote its own Liezhi TV station? Doesn’t this transfer Boss Zhou’s minority shareholder interests to Disney?

Once it can no longer be forcibly bundled with ESPN, Disney's cable network may collapse.

This is a huge hidden danger.