C47 Self-blackening

047 Self-hype

Wei Dongsheng unknowingly browsed through the forums for two hours.

Because of the collective order system that Wei Dongsheng advocated, the employees of the Seed downloading project team all formed a small circle, eating while chatting. In Wei Dongsheng's small circle, Chang Mingxia and Lei Jiafu were greedy for the benefits of the hot topic they talked about a few days ago, and they suggested making a lot of noise. In Wei Dongsheng's previous life, he had mixed himself in the Mobile Game industry and was already used to all kinds of hype. He immediately ordered Chang Mingxia and Lei Jiafei to take out concrete measures.

Lei Jiafei briefly planned out the steps to stir up hype.

The first step is to take advantage of the vast netizens' ignorance of the natural flaws in programming technology, praise BitTorrent software to the heavens, and then brainless black seeds to download the divine tool is a shameless plagiarism. In short, the Spring and Autumn Software Company was wearing a vest and blaming herself for her actions. Using the admiration of some of the citizens, she made use of the words "foreign countries will definitely be rounder than the Hwa Country" and "American technology can't be compared by the Hwa Country" to further raise the topic. It would be better to attract the attention of the media.

The second step, was to wait for the sound of swearing from all around, then Spring and Autumn Software Company would make a statement in time. At the same time, he would bring the public opinion from the various technical forums to analyze in detail the difference between the seed download and BitTorrent. Was it a shameless plagiarism, or was it the pride of being the number one in the world?

The third step, when the public opinion focus slightly receded, a heavy punch was made to end the case once and for all. Simple patriotic masses and technical personnel, Spring and Autumn software can use the facts to convince the other party, but it is difficult to stop the outside group's mouth. If they could use the truth to persuade them, if they were willing to view the current situation of the Hwa Country rationally, they wouldn't unconditionally look down on the Hwa Country at the first possible moment. In order to silence the foreign population, Spring and Autumn Software must take measures to make BitTorrent author Bram Cohen stand out and express his admiration for the divine tool of seed download.

In the end, Bram Cohen announced that he had joined the Spring and Autumn Software Company, which was the final conclusion to the case of the plagiarist.

The cooperation of Bram Cohen is a very important part of the scheme.

Wei Dongsheng ignored him and grabbed onto his center of gravity. "Can you ensure that BramCohen will cooperate with us?"

"According to the information we have, BitTorrent is never a way to make money for Bram Cohen, as can be demonstrated by the way BitTorrent is both free and open source. Bram Cohen wants to continue perfecting BitTorrent and living in a tight position to accept sponsorship, with a high probability of not rejecting our company's olive branch. Of course, in order to ensure that there are no loopholes, we have entrusted our agents in the United States to sign a contract with him.

Wei Dongsheng was inclined to seek stability: "Let's sign the contract first, then we can hype it up."

After that, the Lei Family's hype went smoothly. BramCohen was amazed at the perfection of the seed downloading divine tool and also coveted the annual salary of $120 thousand. After receiving the $20,000 signature fee, he agreed without hesitation to sign a contract to join a Spring and Autumn Software Company in a foreign country. In order to ensure efficiency, Bram Cohen signed the fax contract and sent it back to China, Lei Jiafei launched a new wave of hype.

On January 7, 2013, China's top-ranked mainstream forum collectively revealed hot posts:

"Plagiarism of BitTorrent by Seed Downloading Divine Equipment"

"BitTorrent Chinese, becoming a divine tool for seed downloading"

"Without God Equipment, all of them are shameless"

"Are there any more innovations on the Hwa Country's internet?"

Internet public opinion suddenly changed, collectively criticizing the spring and autumn software.

During this time, there were technicians who knew the difference between BitTorrent and the seed downloads, and they spontaneously defended the Spring and Autumn software. However, the technical staff did not know how to hype, while the cost of breaking up rumors was always higher than the cost of rumors. The Spring and Autumn software had no business with the media, and some of the technical staff defended themselves like a canoe in a stormy sea.

Last time, netizens focused on download speed and network bandwidth.

In 2002, the Hwa Country Internet was still in its infancy. The tenth statistical report on the development of the Hwa Country Internet indicated that, as of 22 July 2002, the total number of Internet users in the Hwa Country was 45.8 million, the total number of Internet computers was 16.13 million and the total number of broadband users was 26.82 million. In addition, ADSL, whose full name is asymmetric digital user line, is one of the broadband access technologies and is therefore also counted among broadband users. In 2002, the number of netizens was relatively small, and most of them were ignorant of the Internet. According to the survey, 36.2% of users did not use a search engine at all, and a similar percentage never consciously chose the right downloading tool.

In the eyes of the netizens of the future, the problem of network bandwidth was as simple as one plus one equals two. However, in the eyes of netizens in 2002, the connection between download speed and network bandwidth is too professional, and it is a small topic for netizens to amuse themselves.

This time, the topic was different.

There is no plagiarism, domestic and foreign comparisons, extremely eye-catching. Regardless of understanding or not understanding technology, when the netizens see such a title, they would subconsciously click it and choose to criticize or support it based on their own position. In just a short day, the notoriety of downloading divine tools and Spring and Autumn Software Company had spread far and wide.

However, the download tool has already been analyzed, and its core user experience is excellent download speed. Be it a shameless plagiarism or no plagiarism, the extremely high download speed was unquestionable. Aside from a few netizens who were extremely disgusted with copying and hated copying from abroad, most netizens tried to download the seed to download the divine tool. They were then surprised to find out that the speed at which the seed was downloaded was unbelievably high.

All of this, the Spring and Autumn software had copied its notoriety, yet the downloads of the seed downloads were all flying high. That night, Wei Dongsheng activated the statistics subfunction of the intelligent life of the computer, immediately showing that the share of the downloading tool market had undergone a significant change:

First place is still FlashGet, but its market share dropped from 45 per cent eight days ago to 40 per cent.

NetAnts, still in second place, also saw its market share slip sharply, from 19.2 per cent eight days ago to 17.1 per cent.

In less than 20 days, their market share had soared to 14.8%. Not only did they leave StreamVCR and NetTransport behind, but they also had the possibility of overtaking their predecessor, NetAnts, at any time.

As the topic went on, the market share of the seed downloading device rapidly increased, and the next day, the market share data was increased to 17.1%. At the same time, NetAnts fell to 16.6 per cent, a rise and a fall that made seed downloads the top of the downloading tool market on January 8, 2003.

17.1% is not the end of seed downloading.

On 9 January 2003, the market share of seed downloads was 19.8 per cent and that of FlashGet fell to 37.7 per cent.

On 10 January 2003, the market share of seed downloads was 22.7 per cent and that of FlashGet slipped to 36.4 per cent.

The development of seed downloading was very good.

Considering that it was a long story, in order to avoid hype, Spring and Autumn Software mobilized Jing Minqiang's political and economic resources on the afternoon of January 10, liaising with the media to release a statement detailing the relationship between the seed download divine tool and BitTorrent. Internet media quickly reversed public opinion on the main battlefield, and the navy supported them by raising the national flag to protect the reputation of the seed downloaders, while spreading the original version of Bit Torrent to a limited extent, allowing more sane doubters to compare the practice of BitTorrent with that of the seed downloaders.

On January 11th, Spring and Autumn Software controlled the Seeds Download of the Seeds, boasting that it had returned to the nest of the American emperor, proving that the Seeds Download Deity had crushed the original BitTorrent.

On January 12, Bram Cohen, as the creator of BitTorrent, gave a remote interview to explain that BitTorrent was an open source software, and that the Bitstream protocol used to download the seed had perfected the BItTorrent. Furthermore, the Spring and Autumn Software Company had already released the open source Bitstream protocol, which complied with the hidden rules of the open source software.

Public opinion flipped, and the hype came to an end.

Bram Cohen himself has some doubts about the migration across the Pacific to work as part of the Spring and Autumn software program. Wei Dongsheng held the intelligent life weapon in his hands, and did not really yearn for Bram Cohen's technology, so he was lenient enough to give Bram Cohen more time to prepare. Moreover, if Bram Cohen was willing to rush to Yanjing to work, he could then reopen the past and stir up a commotion.

After this round of hype, the market share of seed downloads soared to 29.2%, while the market share of FlashGet slipped to 33.3%.

The download tool market, users can be divided into loyal users, tool users, edge users. Loyal users, such as those who are loyal to FlashGet, are used to FlashGet settings and have feelings for it, and will not easily unload it. Tool users, on the other hand, care only about the download speed and already hate FlashGet bundled ads. The reason why the market share of seed downloading God Equipment was able to quickly soar was because of the feature of the downloading tool market. A large number of tool users saw that seed downloading God Equipment was easy to use and immediately ruthlessly abandoned other downloading tools.

However, in addition to tool users, there are loyal users and edge users who do not use commonly used downloads tools. This part of the user competition is relatively expensive.

In short, when the market share of seed downloads has soared to a certain extent, such as 29.2 to 39.2 per cent, and 39.2 to 29.2 per cent, the difficulty of continuing to expand the market share has multiplied.

In addition, daily real-time update downloads tool market share data, is the intelligent life of the computer cyanobacteria monitoring Hwa Country network special function. Even within the Spring and Autumn software, only Wei Dongsheng had the authority to understand the efficiency of the topic. The rest of the staff, including those in charge, Chang Mingxia and Lei Jiafei, could only check the software downloads and whether the user had used the Seed Download God Equipment that day. They could also indirectly calculate the position of the Seed Download God Equipment in the download tool market.

It was naturally even more impossible for people outside the Spring and Autumn Software Company to know that the market share of the seeds to download the divine tool had already soared to 29.2%.

However, not knowing the exact numbers did not mean that they could not see the explosive growth of the divine tool.

Witnessing the two rounds of internet talk with his own eyes, and personally feeling the crushing power of the seed downloading divine tool over other downloading tools, many Internet Enterprise had already started to value Spring and Autumn Software, a new company that had only been established a month ago.