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Those who secretly manipulated this matter must have thought that Simon would do everything possible to cover up the matter after it was exposed, which would inevitably be an attempt to conceal it, and further lead to unnecessary speculation by the public.

The truth is, perhaps the publicity of this incident will once again trigger some criticism of Simon's personal extravagance and squandering, but there is nothing unspeakable about the matter itself legally.Moreover, the living conditions of the girls are directly displayed in the form of webcast, and any groundless speculation and malicious rumors will be self-defeating.

Chapter 604 Exposure (Revised)

Simon arrived in Greenwich, and Joseph Schlapp also brought Simon a bad news.

The latest draft of the Digital Copyright Act, which focuses on promoting Internet copyright and copyright protection in the Westeros system, was rejected again during the second deliberation process by members of the House of Representatives.

The core of the dispute is the 'safe harbor regulation'.

The reason given by lawmakers opposing the Safe Harbor Act is that this provision is likely to be abused after it is enacted, leading to the proliferation of Internet piracy resources.

According to the legislative process of the U.S. Congress, after a bill is passed for deliberation, it needs to be voted twice by the House of Representatives and the Senate. It must be supported by more than half of the members and signed by the president before it can take effect. The president of the United States has the right to refuse to sign certain bills. As for the countermeasures, as long as more than two-thirds of the members of Congress can be won, the bill can also be forcibly passed.

Most bills in the United States are usually blocked in the review process, and sometimes they are delayed for five or six years and may not be passed after seven or eight reviews.

The suspense in the final voting session will not be too great.

Because once the vote starts, it often means that a bill has won the consent of the majority of members of Congress after repeated negotiations and game compromises.

"According to the lobbying feedback data from our team, the Senate is not a big problem because Gore is the majority leader in the Senate. However, if we want to pass the House of Representatives, we need at least 20 votes."

The 100 seats in the U.S. Senate have remained unchanged for a long time, and the number of members of the House of Representatives is regularly fine-tuned according to changes in the U.S. population. There are currently 434 seats, and more than half of the votes are at least 218. 20 votes do not seem to be many, and it is not easy to win.

At this stage, the number of seats held by Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives is 256 and 178 respectively. It stands to reason that as a supporter of the Democratic Party, it should be easy for the Westeros system to pass a bill, but the fact is far from it.The Democratic Party is not monolithic, and the Westeros system is not popular with all Democrats.

It is easy to imagine that those Democratic congressmen who have the support of traditional paper media groups behind the scenes will definitely not stand on the side of the Westeros system and continue to sit and watch the development of Igret Corporation.

Joseph Schlapp saw that Simon just looked down at a document he brought, and continued: "The Connecticut House of Representatives David Meroth and several other congressmen are currently seeking to promote an Internet media regulation bill. ,” Schlapp said, rummaging through the stack of materials he brought in front of Simon for a while, and said, “This is it, so, if we want to pass the Digital Copyright Act, we probably need some exchanges. In addition, Many members of Congress, in both parties, are also seeking to relax the 'transmedia ownership ban', and this is our opportunity."

Although everyone understands that emerging Internet platforms such as Eaglet portal have media attributes, Eaglet company itself positions its news information department as a content publisher rather than a media company. The key lies in these two areas The regulation that needs to be subject to is completely different.

The publishing industry in the United States has a strong degree of freedom, but the media industry has to be strictly regulated because of the clauses on freedom of speech in the U.S. Constitution.

Among them, the "transmedia ownership ban" is a big curse that binds traditional media such as newspapers and television. This is a bill issued by the United States in the 60s. Since the Nixon era, many media giants have continued to lobby in an attempt to relax the relevant ban.

In order to prevent the media from manipulating public opinion, the main provisions of the 'transmedia ownership ban' include that a media group shall not own more than two newspapers in the same region, shall not own both newspapers and TV stations in the same region, and media companies shall not own more than 12 directly affiliated localities TV stations, large public television networks must not have more than 35% audience market share, etc.

After several years of continuous operation, the Westeros system can probably mobilize congressional votes. There are 17 votes in the House of Representatives and 6 votes in the Senate. These are members who will clearly stand on the side of the Westeros system if necessary. , and it seems that the proportion is not large, but it is already a political capital that cannot be underestimated, and it is also the exchange chip that Schlapp said.

Simon has a good memory.

Congressman David Melrowth of Connecticut was a congressman personally introduced to him by William Hearst III when he attended the Hearst family party. Given the stalemate between the two parties, it is only natural that the other party took the lead in initiating the Internet media regulation bill.

The relaxation of the "trans-media ownership ban" is also an urgent need for traditional media groups to maintain their industry status in the context of the increasingly turbulent Internet industry.

Hearst Group, Condé Nast Group, The New York Times Group and other entrenched traditional paper media will surely hold more congressional votes than the Westeros system. If the two parties reach an agreement, they will win additional 20 House votes for passage of the Digital Copyright Act is a no-brainer.

Obviously, the main obstacle to the passage of the "Digital Copyright Act" probably lies in these paper media.

Simon quickly sorted out the information in his mind, and suddenly looked up at Joseph Schlapp, with a smile on his lips, and said, "Isn't it someone who wants to reconcile?"

Joseph Schlapp was stunned for a moment. He was still thinking about how to pick up the topic, but Simon had already guessed it.

Because he is familiar with the character of his boss and the current relationship between the Westeros system and the paper media forces, Joseph Schlapp is very cautious about helping some people spread the word.After all, he is now working for the Westeros system, for Simon Westeros, and the entire Schlapp family and other stakeholders attach great importance to their current status in the Westeros system, absolutely I don't want Simon to have the impression that he is not loyal enough to the Westeros system because of this rumor.

In recent years, even before the rise of the Internet industry, under the impact of the increasingly prosperous TV industry, the huge print media industry in the United States has begun to decline.

Whether it is Hearst Group, Condé Nast Group or others, they are all seeking to develop into the TV field. This is why Hearst Group snatched 20% of ESPN television network shares from Daenerys Entertainment.

However, before the transformation of traditional paper media to the TV industry has been completed, the Internet has already surged, and has formed a more direct and strong impact on the paper media industry.

Naturally, the first thought of the established media forces is to block and confront.

It's just that it seems that this kind of targeting is not very effective.

They wanted to make Westeros compromise in disguise by suppressing Daenerys Entertainment, but the result was that Daenerys Entertainment launched blockbuster works one after another.Daenerys Entertainment compressed film and television advertisements for paper media and opened up Internet marketing channels, which instead allowed traditional paper media to steal chickens and lose money.

On the other hand, in less than four years, the popularity of Internet users in the United States has reached 30% of the total population. Go straight to the TV networks.

Since confrontation is ineffective, following the trend is undoubtedly the wisest choice.

After considering his words for a while, Joseph Schlapp said: "The New York Times plans to open an electronic version in the near future. You know, Simon, if there is no support from the Igret Portal to guide traffic, the other party will not have much development at all. "

Schlapp has another subtext.

If the electronic edition of The New York Times wants to gain a firm foothold on the Internet platform, it will inevitably mean direct competition with Eaglet’s news and information business.

Moreover, because the services provided by the two are equivalent, users will inevitably prefer the free Igret portal information instead of paying to subscribe to electronic newspapers, which is another inevitable conflict of interest.The two sides want to reconcile and cooperate, and the Ygritte Portal must make certain concessions.

Compared with the entrenched old paper media, the news and information department of Ygritte Portal is still very weak.

As far as the number of employees is concerned, the "New York Times" group is only one newspaper, the "New York Times", with more than 1600 employees around the world.Eaglet's news and information department has developed to the present, and the team size has just reached 500 people.

In order to lead other competitors astray, Simon listed news information as Eaglet's highest priority business, but in fact, news information has never been the core of Eaglet.If Igret Portal could have obtained the online news authorization from the traditional paper media group, Simon would not have invested a lot of resources to form his own news information team.

Therefore, making concessions in this field may touch Ygritte's core interests for outsiders, but this is not the case.

On the other hand, if an established media such as The New York Times can digitize a large amount of print media information it owns, it will definitely enrich the content resources of the Internet platform to a great extent. This is what Simon has been promoting.Only when the online content resources are rich enough, Eaglet's search engine business can achieve better development.

Moreover, although Simon made up his mind to let Eaglet Company grow wildly, if he could reach a settlement with some large paper media, he would not object.

One more friend is always better than one more enemy.

Joseph Schlapp's hint was already very obvious. Simon thought for a while and asked, "Behind the scenes of The New York Times, um, the Salzberg family?"

At this stage, traditional American newspapers are basically still controlled by various established families, such as the Hearst family, the controller of the Hearst Group, the Salzberg family behind the "New York Times" group, and the "Washington Post" group. The Grahams, the Newhouses, owners of Condé Nast, and more.

Joseph Schlapp nodded and said, "Simon, if you have time, the current publisher of The New York Times, Arthur Salzberg Jr., would like to meet with you once."

Simon didn't immediately agree.

The last time I had contact with the Hearst family was not a pleasant experience, including Rupert Murdoch, who had a good relationship, was actually an old fox.Now that the other party has just tried it, Simon is eager to respond. It is hard to say what kind of moth the Salzberg family will make.

After thinking for a moment, Simon said, "I'm going back to Los Angeles in the afternoon. If the other party has time, let him come to the West Coast. I can entertain him anytime."

Joseph Schlapp probably also understood Simon's thoughts. The stalemate between his boss and the Hearst family has not eased, even if he himself has not seen the arrogance of the old media family.Since the initiative is on the side of the Westeros system, if the other party wants to reconcile, it is necessary to make some low profile.

Then I continued to talk about other things, such as the 1994 mid-term elections that have already started, the capital gains tax reform bill, lifting the ban on media industry integration, the "Telecom Act" that the Clinton administration is brewing, etc., until noon, and kept Schlapp together After lunch, Simon boarded the plane back to Los Angeles at one o'clock in the afternoon.

In the study in the front cabin of Boeing 767.

After the plane stabilized, girl A came in and reported the arrangements for the material from the UK in the morning, and finally said: "Boss, the matter of Yulia Shurshikina has been dealt with, do you need to arrange for her to come to the United States?"

Simon was still reading the documents left by Joseph Schlapp in the morning, and asked in confusion, "What?"

Alison repeated: "Yulia Shulshikina."

It was only then that Simon remembered that the ballet teacher of the girls in the London Fruit Nana group was a Slavic girl who fit the elf image in his heart.

The last time Janet and Janet were watching London girls practicing ballet, they found each other, and ordered them casually, and got the materials a few days ago.

It is very common for a woman in a turbulent era, her strengths and weaknesses are probably too beautiful.

Yulia Shurshikina, 31 years old, married once, has a 3-year-old daughter.The girl came to London with a British banker two years ago. To be precise, she was tricked to London by a blandishing British banker.

The banker has a family and a family, but he just wants to raise the other party as a lover, and even deliberately refuses to solve the green card issue for the mother and daughter in order to control them.

The girl had already resigned to her fate, but she did not expect that the banker, who was originally a wealthy family, made the wrong move during the 92 British Pound Crisis. Not only did she lose all her tens of millions of dollars, she also owed millions of pounds in debt, and her marriage also broke down. .The penniless banker not only can no longer support his Russian lover, but also forces him to find a job to subsidize himself.

When the staff of the Westeros system came into contact with the girl, the banker was even planning to sell the mother and daughter together to London's Fengyuechang. The price was negotiated, 15 pounds.

Simon didn't have any special feelings about this.

In the turbulent age, there are countless more personal fates that are more turbulent than this. Since they met, they sent the dilapidated banker to prison, and at the same time arranged everything they needed for the mother and daughter.

Of course, Simon also didn't hide his possessive desire.He has never been a bad guy who saves the poor.However, the Russian girl only knew that she had become a subsidiary of the group of girls behind the scenes in the London villa, and she didn't know Simon's identity.

Simon is just a habitual collector, and there is no shortage of women around him, so he shook his head: "Let her continue teaching girls to dance in London, by the way, don't let girls practice on their toes, as if ballet dancers don't have very beautiful toes .”

Alison nodded, and was a little puzzled. She rummaged through the folder in her arms, found a photo, and said, "No, it's very beautiful."

Simon reached out to take the photo and glanced at it. It was a photo of a Russian girl in a dancing pose. Although she was wearing thin white stockings, she could still recognize a pair of small and perfect feet.

Girl A said from the side: "I know something about it. A lot of toe deformation of ballet dancers is caused by inappropriate training methods. Yulia is very professional in this regard."

Simon recalled the last time he saw a Russian girl teaching girls to practice. Although he didn't know much about ballet, he could feel Yulia's professionalism at that time.

Putting down the photo, Simon said, "Anyway, don't practice on your toes anymore. Girls don't want to be professional ballerinas. In addition, collect a piece of information about the families behind the major federal paper media groups. Let me start with the family behind the "New York Times". Starting with the Salzberg family, try to be as detailed as possible."

Alison nodded, seeing that Simon had no other orders, turned and left the study.

Chapter 605 Exposure (2) (Revised)

Miss C moves quickly.

In the early morning of Monday, February 2, the Wall Street Journal reported that Claire Gein, CEO of Tinkerbell Company, had an appointment with the president of Morgan Stanley's West Coast Investment Banking Department.

The media and the public habitually refer to several major financial giants on Wall Street as "investment banks". In fact, companies such as Morgan Sachs, Goldman Sachs, Lehman, and Solomon are all comprehensive financial service companies. One of the giant's many businesses, it is mainly responsible for the underwriting of corporate IPOs and various types of stocks and bonds.

Therefore, the purpose of Miss C's meeting with the head of the investment banking department of Morgan West Coast is self-evident.

In the morning of the same day, on the financial section of Eaglet Portal, "inside sources" immediately gave affirmative revelations that Tinkber Company is considering an initial public offering (IPO). Rapidly rising electronics companies quickly became the focus of attention.

Founded in 1991, in June of that year, relying on a cheap digital camera product, it became a blockbuster. In the second year of its establishment, its sales exceeded 6 million US dollars, and its development speed was no less than that of old PC giants such as Apple and Compaq.

Seemingly in order to create momentum for the upcoming IPO, on February 2, Tinkbel also announced its 22 annual financial report through the Eaglet portal.

Throughout 1993, Tinkbel sold 276 million iCam series digital cameras, with a turnover of US$13.9 billion and a net profit of US$1.2.An electronics company has achieved sales of more than US$10 billion and a net profit of more than US$[-] million in just three years after its establishment, which is outstanding in the entire business history.

Such operating performance also proves once again that the Internet industry, which is in a blue ocean, has a broad space for development.

February 2 is Simon's 22th birthday.

Still pass by in a low-key manner.

That's if you don't count C-girls publicly wishing their boss a happy birthday on NBC's "The Tonight Show."

On the important page of the newspaper for two consecutive days, Claire also accepted an interview on NBC's famous talk show "The Tonight Show" on the evening of Simon's birthday. Miss C, who is a strong business woman, has the temperament and demeanor of any Hollywood actress that night. , In the interview, he talked with Jay Leno about his idea of ​​founding Tinkerbell, the development of iCam in the past few years, and his vision for the company.

And of course the boss.

Girl C was very frank about this, saying that she used to be one of the ABCDs around Simon, and she also boldly revealed her admiration for her boss during work and Simon's unlimited support for her establishment of Tinkobel, and occasionally some small things Ambiguous, although she was tactfully avoided by Miss C, Claire's hard-to-disguise aftertaste seemed to be 'not asking for it', which made the audience booed.

Finally, while wishing Simon a happy birthday, he did not forget to continue to advertise the fourth-generation iCam 40 digital camera that Tinkber will release during Easter.

It fits the theme very well.

It feels like this big goblin is on stage just to promote its own products.

There is also no shortage of doubts.

An article in the "San Francisco Chronicle" on Wednesday mercilessly ridiculed the singleness of Tinkobel's products and the huge performance gap between iCam and professional digital cameras that lack core technology. In a situation where big and established electronics players are united, a small company claiming that its market share is 'all the way down' could be sidelined within three years, like Apple, which is rapidly declining.

After the market value reached the peak of 1992 billion U.S. dollars in 76, affected by factors such as the rise of Microsoft and the stagnation of its own product innovation, even though it still achieved a net profit of more than 1993 million U.S. dollars in fiscal year 5, Apple’s stock price still fell all the way, and the current market value has fallen to 43. The stock price has plummeted by 43.5% compared to the peak period.

At first, Tinkber, who completed the first-generation iCam 10 by purchasing components from other manufacturers, seemed to be inferior to Apple on the surface. Whether it is a Japanese or German electronics manufacturer or a powerful electronics manufacturer in the United States, it can rely on years of technology accumulation. Produce more outstanding digital camera products than Tinkobel.

Simon scoffed at the article, which was purely bad news.

According to this point of view, it is impossible for mobile phone giants such as Motorola and Nokia to be overtaken by a "layman" from Apple.

After three years of growth, Tinkber already has its own perfect technology accumulation, marketing model, sales network and after-sales service. This is the foundation for a company to continue to develop rapidly, not just the technical level of its products.

What's more, if we talk about technology, Tinkber has already used a completely self-developed CMOS image sensor in the third-generation iCam 30 digital camera last year.

As the core component of the mobile phone camera in Simon's memory, Tinkobel's accumulation in CMOS technology has been ahead of other traditional electronics manufacturers who are still focusing on the development of expensive CCD sensor technology for at least two years. The optimization of software and hardware around CMOS sensors is more It is far behind the products of other cheap digital camera manufacturers.

Although last year's iCam 30 still only has 30 pixels, relying on the CMOS sensor developed by Tinkobel and the optimization of software and hardware technology, the photo effect is no less than that of Canon's 60 camera that claims to have the display quality of a traditional film camera. Megapixel CCD sensor camera.Moreover, iCam 30 still maintains a price of $499. Although the price of Canon's CCM sensor digital camera is also positioned at the mass consumer level, the price is still as high as $1200.

The USB technology jointly launched by Eaglet, Microsoft, and Intel has been officially promoted since the end of last year.

The advanced layout of Tinkobel company in USB technology hardware is far ahead of other manufacturers. iCam digital camera and iPlayer music player have already perfected the USB interface version in advance. In addition, there is also a USB flash memory that can replace the current floppy disk. Disk products, this product will be the first to be released together with iCam 40 this Easter.

More importantly, these products are accompanied by a series of technical patents with huge potential benefits.

So, to anyone familiar with Tinkerbell's history, the San Francisco Chronicle article is a complete joke.

Compared with the bad news of the "San Francisco Chronicle", many professional media are still more optimistic about the prospect of the IPO of Tinkobel.According to the financial performance in 1993 and the company's continuous upward trend, the industry generally predicts that Tinkber's IPO price-earnings ratio will not be lower than 20 times, which means that the company has a conservative valuation of up to 24 billion US dollars.

Relying on her 15% stake in Tinkobel, Miss C's net worth is estimated at $3.6 million.

3.6 million US dollars, has basically stepped on the threshold of the 400 richest people in the United States.After the official IPO, the stock price has risen slightly. The former Simon Westeros personal maid may become one of the 400 richest people in the United States on the Forbes list in the second half of this year.

The most direct consequence of this incident is that the maid team of the Westeros family has attracted much attention.

The media later discovered that, in addition to C girl Claire, B girl Betsy Hope has also entered the entrepreneurial stage. This financial consulting service company called Alphabeta has not officially launched its own products, but as the news came to light, some investment Capital and potential users have begun to inquire about the details.

In addition, how to become a Weijia maid like ABCD has gradually become a hot topic of discussion in the circles of many college girls and job-seeking women. The girl self-recommends herself through Igret social platform.