At present, cable TV has only established TV stations in three cities. Yili''an must have one in the south, and the rest is the political, economic and cultural center of the imperial capital.
Du Lin also wants to spread the TV station all over the Empire at once, but the problem is that those signal lines seem to be worthless, but if they are laid according to the scale of a city and enough interfaces are reserved, this is an astronomical figure. Even if he holds tens of millions in his hand, it is not enough. Ten times is not enough. He can only choose to pre install three cities first, Then consider obtaining funds through commercial operation, and then use the money to lay lines for other cities.
During this time, he discussed the charge with Nasha and freina, including the management of the new company. Turing''s idea was that $6.99 would be all included, but it was unanimously opposed by others. Nasha thought that $6.99 might be appropriate if it was only a monthly rent for one channel, but it would obviously suffer a loss if it was all channels, Especially when the business is still the only one.
The high profits brought by monopoly are enough to support them to quickly lay a sound and terrible national signal transmission network connecting all cities all over the country. Accelerating this infrastructure construction will be more helpful to their later profits. At least the profit period will come ahead of schedule and expand the profit space.
Dulin thought the charge was too cruel, and he let go of his words. Finally, with the help of those business elites, they held a teleconference and set the charging standard.
What Du Lin said at the press conference is still valid, but a premise is added here. Users who must subscribe to the full channel at one time and for two years can apply for the welfare policy of "old users" who subscribe to the full channel at 6.99 yuan after two years. Before that, the opening fee of each channel was 3.99 yuan, and the opening of the whole channel required 39.90 yuan. In addition, Nasha and freina also negotiated cooperation with the producers'' Association, another cooperation plan, a very important cooperation plan.
In the future, all users who have access to the cable TV signal can independently order any produced film at home, only need to pay an additional fee, and the film will be broadcast separately on channel 11. Of course, there are still a lot of technical problems that have not been solved. For example, a series of problems such as how to make users have simple and effective contact with TV stations and quickly watch their favorite movies need to be further solved by Science Island.
To this end, the producers'' Association has signed a commercial agreement with Dolin''s cable TV broadcasting company. The producers'' Association provides at least 3 million and no more than 10 million special research funds for the realization of on-demand technology, and enjoys 33% of the patent right of this technology. This is a very excellent business plan. You can make a lot of money by doing research for yourself with other people''s money, and you don''t need to pay all the patents.
Judging from the producers'' Association, they have no loss in doing so. According to the current standards and rules of the film industry, once a film is released, if the cinema continues to play the film in the future, 99% of the revenue will belong to the cinema line, and only 1% of the symbolic revenue will be handed over to the producer. This makes many producers very painful. Under this system, there has been a legal stealing of the box office. Those cinemas get the film, but they don''t play it or play it less. They don''t start large-scale broadcasting until the end of the release period, which has caused great losses to the production company.
The production company also sued these cinemas, and the final result was very unsatisfactory. First, the cinemas did not get these film sources for free, but bought them with their own money. Then the ownership and all rights and interests of the film copy belong to the cinema line. They can play whenever they like, The production company has no right to ask the cinema line to perform the obligations they do not need to undertake.
This also causes that when the film is released, the producer either provides copies of the film free of charge and signs an agreement detailing how many times to play every day, or spends another sum of money to arrange the play by hiring and purchasing time periods. In short, the producer has become very weak in the cinema.
But if that bastard Dooling can let those viewers watch movies at home and have an accurate billing method, some production companies think it is not a problem to abandon most rogue cinemas, even if the two women ask for 45% of the cost of each video on demand.
Moreover, there is a more obvious advantage, that is, during the "replay", the production company makes money. Even if those audiences demand movies more than ten years ago, they can still make profits from them. There is no embarrassing situation that only 1% of the box office revenue after the release period, sometimes not even 1%, and those cinemas will not tell the production company, I started playing your movies a few years ago and made money.
Therefore, in order to break the restriction of cinemas on producers, they took out three million yuan for special research in advance. Once the research is successful, they will let those cinemas know what it is called bankruptcy!
Everything is moving in the best direction of Dooling''s plan, but problems still arise. The first place to appear is the imperial capital.
So far, apart from the wires that need to be pulled by poles, there are only telephone lines left, which won''t occupy too much space. Wires can be separated by a main line, and there are not many telephone lines, because many ordinary families do not have the right to enjoy the telephone. They can''t afford to buy a telephone or pay the high fees. But the signal lines of cable TV are a little more. After they come out of the TV station, they are split into every corner of the city, which is definitely an amazing project.
It''s not realistic to hang on the electric poles. I''m afraid neither of the two electric poles can bear the TV signal line coming out of the TV station, so the plan at the beginning was to bury the telephone line under the ground. But just as the excavation began, people from the social service bureau of the imperial capital appeared. They asked the project to stop. The other two cities are the same. Anyway, they have their own reasons.
What the imperial capital says here is that the imperial capital is an ancient city with a history of more than 1000 years, and has been the capital of the Empire for hundreds of years. It has extraordinary significance and historical value. Every brick on the ground can be called a historical relic. Such destructive construction is absolutely not allowed, which will damage too many historical traces and the ground, so the project of cable TV station is not allowed to continue.
Yili''an is said to be considering the city appearance. As a tourist city, if there are flying dust and construction sites everywhere, it will cause great damage to yili''an''s image. How to dig, when to dig, and how much to dig each time, a reasonable plan must be submitted to the city hall first. Only after it is approved can the ground be broken. In particular, people from the city hall said that it is best to put the construction period in the winter break, when the number of tourists in Yilian will decrease sharply, which is more suitable for this large-scale construction.
As for the problem of southern cities, Du Lin felt that they wanted money. Their reasons were very reluctantly. Of course, they also met the actual situation. There was a lot of chaos such as road damage, dust, noise pollution and residents'' reports. Although there are many problems, their determination is not firm enough. It seems that it is possible to talk. If they can talk, it is to ask for money. In the south where everything can be used as a commodity, this has become the best and simple thing.
But in addition to the south, the construction of Yilian and DIDU is a trouble, which makes Du Lin''s head ache.
It''s not just Dolin who has a headache, but others.
At this time, Taylor sat at the Council meeting with his head in his hand. He was not qualified to sit in those positions with Sika nameplates. He could only sit close to the wall in the corner of the conference room. He looked very bad. He fell down the revolving stairs of Kellerman and broke one leg and one arm. Now he is in plaster and fixed frame and can''t move. His head was also wrapped in gauze and he wore a cervical protector around his neck. It felt as if he had just experienced a thrilling car accident.
Now the meeting is discussing the overall suspension of insurance business. Dooling not only took out the patent certificate, but also took the two banks to the imperial Supreme Court. Only the imperial Supreme Court is qualified to hear the cases about the two banks.
The imperial central bank has experienced such things as being sued for many times. I dare not say that it will win every time, but 99% of the time they finally win the lawsuit. There is no other name, just money. Money can drag down all those who sue them and drag the lawsuit into a long trial process. Finally, the plaintiff chose to withdraw the lawsuit because of bankruptcy or inability to bear huge economic pressure. Even if the symbolic compensation fee of the imperial central bank is over, sometimes he won''t give anyone a penny.
There is a folk saying that "if you don''t have money, the most rational way is not to challenge the bank". According to the current working methods of judicial practitioners, that is, vampires called lawyers, they can get a considerable part of their income whether they win or lose a lawsuit.
If you win, the amount of compensation involved in the indictment should be paid to the lawyer as an additional part of the fee according to the percentage, usually between 12% and 20%, sometimes higher, and even 50% of the cases.
If you lose, you also need to pay such a fee. Of course, the fee is between 1% and 3% of the compensation. In addition, whether you win or lose, you must pay the cost of hiring a lawyer. It costs to collect evidence, sort out data, formulate defense plan, and finally defend in court.
The countless fees add up, and the bank may not pay enough for the lawyer.
Of course, if the plaintiff has money and can drag the lawsuit down with them, for example, people like Dolin, they have no good way. When the risk is too high, the timely stop loss is the bank''s code of conduct. If you can win, it seems that if you can''t win, you won''t fight. After all, the bank also wants money in a lawsuit.
The lawsuit they discussed today is different from before, because Dooling is rich and very rich! Every month, the huge amount of money flowing out of illian and Otis flows into dozens of anonymous accounts. The bank preliminarily assessed his wealth for Du Lin, about 200 million to 300 million.
These do not refer to his cash, but include the evaluation of all the movable and immovable properties specified in his name, and exclude the part of illegal income, which can not be counted in the book. The largest asset comes from the real estate of Otis city. At the beginning, Dulin used the cheap price of 100000 yuan per district to win the land of eight districts in Otis City, almost covering the prosperous areas of the whole city. The price of these lands is rising rapidly. With the development and gold absorption capacity of Otis City, it may not be long before these lands alone can be worth 500 million or 1 billion.
It''s not interesting to file a lawsuit with such a guy. I can''t find the feeling of abuse at all. I can only feel abused.
"Do you think it is necessary for us to fight such a lawsuit against him?", the three executive directors attended the meeting, including the other four directors, and several were unable to come due to various reasons, but all sent representatives. Almost all the directors arrived. Taylor also saw Phyllis sitting at the back with a relaxed face and whispering with another director.
Everyone''s eyes were focused on the Minister of the legal department of the imperial central bank and the director of the Council. He nodded and said, "we must fight such a lawsuit with Du Lin, and Sue Du Lin for violating the anti-monopoly law and the anti industry manipulation act. In addition, we also need to sue the imperial patent office, sue the patent office and Du Lin''s right and money transaction, and register a classification that has never been registered as a patent."
The old man sipped his mouth and thought, "what do we need to do, what can we get, and what will we lose?"
There were only the voices of these two people in the whole conference room, and everyone else closed their mouths tightly, except Phyllis sitting at the end.
"The lawsuit filed by Dooling against us was dragged down in the previous way and focused on the other two cases. No matter which side succeeded, we can directly break the patent standards and patent barriers made by Dooling.", the Minister of legal affairs was once a very excellent lawyer who had heard thousands of cases in his life. Now he is too old to write a lawyer''s letter, He transferred to the imperial central bank to be the Minister of justice, but that doesn''t mean he''s useless.
Rich experience and experience made him find some defects of Dooling at a glance. As long as he can break it, Dooling will lose!