Silicon Valley

After the storage and shape of MP3 are solved, the remaining thing to be solved is the MP3 decoding chip.

To play an MP3 song, an MP3 decoder chip is required to decode it, convert the digital signal into an analog signal, and the converted analog signal audio can be played through headphones or speakers! Actually, this technique is not difficult.

The difficulty is that MP3 is a format that compresses music at a compression rate of 1:10 or even 1:12, which belongs to lossy compression. When the decoding chip restores audio information, there will be losses, which will affect the sound quality! A good decoder chip can make up for the loss of audio signals to a large extent and ensure the effect of sound quality as much as possible!

When it comes to chip design, we have to replace ARM, which is now owned by Qualcomm! AMR can even design computer processors, not to mention a mere MP3 decoder chip! ! !

It's a piece of cake!

Henry made a phone call and immediately ordered ARM to send a team to help develop the MP3 decoding chip. When MP3 becomes popular in the future, the MP3 decoding chip developed by arm company will definitely make a lot of money!

However, when other companies have signs of developing a decoding chip, arm will take out the MP3 decoding chip for sale. Before this period of time, of course, the Silicon Valley Electronics Group monopolized the market and made a lot of money! ! !

And this decoding chip is expensive, it is estimated that it will at least account for more than one-third of the price of MP3, which is a huge profit product!

Of course, micro hard drives are also hugely profitable products! This thing has a high technical content, and I didn't spend time researching it. If other companies want to make it, it really can't be done in a short period of time! ! ! Either the hard disk is too large, or the storage capacity is small, and if there is any defect, it is difficult for the produced MP3 to open the market! ! !

Henry is preparing to manufacture an MP3 player. There is a software on the Internet that is suddenly very popular and is loved by many netizens! This software is called Napste. Is a music online software! But it's just a cow, using a technology that shocked Henry - P2P technology!

p2p technology is also known as point-to-point transmission technology!

Typically, users download files. are downloaded from the server. But with p2p technology, you can get the file from the computer that downloaded the file, and after you download the file yourself, it will automatically share the file. In order to transfer the file to other computers that need to download the file, this benefit can greatly improve the download speed and save the bandwidth of the server!

Simply put, join a p2p network, then other computer users can download things from your computer...and the more users. The faster the download speed. For video-on-demand or something, it's better...

However, Napste is used to pirate music. Using p2p technology, Napste has more music than Tiantian Music's music library! The emergence of this technology makes it very easy to share MP3 music among music lovers, resulting in the flood of pirated music! ! !

Henry was shocked when he received the news just now. After Napste did this, MP3s were completely spread, but they were all pirated! And the genuine music of Tiantian Music Company may not be able to sell. Originally wanted to sell MP3 players. Selling songs on the one hand, making money on both ends!

Piracy is powerful, and the genuine one cannot survive!

Henry expressed helplessness and depression!

However, someone is more depressed than him! Tiantian Music Company does not make pirated music anymore, but now there is a more fierce one! ! !

The record company suffered heavy losses for a while, and the sales of physical records plummeted! And Tiantian Music Company is okay, not many people are willing to spend money to download music, Tiantian Music currently relies on advertising fees and the capital injection of ICQ Company to maintain. The operation of mp3 website and Tiantian Music client!

However. Crisis also means opportunity! ! !

When others were still worried about piracy, Henry was already thinking about how to get the genuine copyright!

Since piracy is rampant, Tiantian Music can take the opportunity to buy music digital copyrights from record companies at a very cheap price!

The United States is very strict in cracking down on piracy. Henry knows that Napste will kill itself sooner or later! ! !

So, Henry sent people to major record companies to buy music!

The record company thought that their music had been pirated and had already been circulated on the Internet. Since Tiantian Music Company wanted to buy it and sell the music by itself, how much would they still get a little money! Prompted by this idea, there are indeed many record companies willing to sell music to Tiantian Music Company.

However, those musics were almost unsellable by physical records. In addition to the reasons for piracy, they were sold to Tiantian Music Company!

Although Tiantian Music Company cannot buy the newly released record music, it is better than nothing if it can buy some of the previous music. After Tiantian Music Company bought the music, it immediately put it on the shelves and promoted it. Otherwise, some users can't find the music they want to listen to, and they will turn to become Napste users! ! !

At present, Napste is excellent in p2p, and in other respects, it is simply rudimentary.

Compared with interface, function, and user experience, it is far inferior to Tiantian Music Client! ! !

As long as there are songs, Napste can't challenge Tiantian Music's position in the network!

In fact, Henry didn't take Napste too seriously.

The United States is too strong to crack down on pirated music, and Napste has violated the interests of too many companies. ! ! Fight against piracy and catch a typical example, it is the Napste company...

Napste's piracy is too arrogant, using p2p technology, so that piracy is rampant. And according to the news Henry received, the major record companies are really intolerable, everyone has contacted, and are ready to sue Napste together!

Napste's small arms and legs, how to fight against many record companies in the United States!

On February 25, 1991, major US record companies jointly sued Napste, accusing it of involving hundreds of thousands of infringing songs and demanding $100,000 in compensation for each pirated song!

As soon as the news came out, it caused a huge stir.

Many people who don't have access to the Internet have also paid attention to Napste, thinking, what kind of company is this, it has caused all record companies in the United States to sue it, and criticize it, and frantically suppress it! ! ! It's really arrogant! ! !

On the Internet, music lovers are unanimously supporting Napste.

"Free music sharing, support Napste company!!!"

Although the voices of netizens are very loud, there are no eggs! ! !

Piracy is piracy, and infringement is infringement!

American law will not tolerate it! ! !

The most important thing is that Napste is only a small company, how can it compete with record companies?

This lawsuit has attracted the attention of many major newspapers in the United States, and the court has also attached great importance to this lawsuit.

Many judicial experts have published articles in newspapers to analyze!

"In this lawsuit, Napste will definitely lose!!!"

"Napste does constitute an infringement!!!!"

"..."

Public opinion unanimously turned to the record company, Napste's situation is very difficult!

Under the joint pressure of the record companies, within a week, the court ruled that Napste lost the case!

Napste has no money to compensate the record company, and finally can only declare bankruptcy!

Although Napste has gone bankrupt, it has opened a Pandora's box. P2P technology has begun to attract people's attention. Various software for piracy has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and it is difficult to control! ! !

"Go and buy Napste company!" Henry thought for a while, picked up the phone, and instructed.

p2p technology is a powerful technology, and Napste is still valuable... (PS: please support!!!)

(To be continued ~^~)