Non-famous Actor

"Hey... who is it?"

Faced with everyone's inquiries, Sun Hao looked at his watch with a smile, then pointed to the TV in the living room and said:

"Turn on the TV, maybe the person crying and asking to give me money has already appeared on the TV screen?"

"Cut..." Zeng Li raised her hand and gave Sun Hao a blank look, "It's strange to believe you, I knew you would play tricks!"

However, having said that, the smiling Zeng Li still took the remote control of the TV from Zhao Laolan's hand.

"Which channel?" Zeng Li asked while turning on the TV.

"National TV channel 12, "Everyone's opinion"!"

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【…At the press conference, the largest "underground factory" of pirated optical discs discovered in recent years was disclosed. This "underground factory" located in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province is said to have a large scale and an astonishing output. Where is such a huge illegal factory hiding? What kind of interest chain is hidden behind it? We are now connecting with Li Tian, ​​the reporter of this column who personally experienced the on-site interview.

Zhang Shaogang: Li Tian, ​​hello.

Li Tian: Hello, host!

Zhang Shaogang: Li Tian, ​​what kind of production equipment is in such a huge pirate CD production factory? How is it hidden? Tell us about your interview experience.

Li Tian: Okay, host.

Yesterday, I followed the law enforcement officers to this "underground factory". As we all know, in order to avoid the sight of law enforcement officers, the pirated production lines cracked in the past usually choose the production location in remote rural areas or abandoned factories.

But the boss named Zhu Jian is very cunning, he set up the production line in a formal industrial park.

The "underground factory" is located on the second floor of a production workshop. When the law enforcement officers arrived, they could still see someone shaking the window on the second floor. However, when the law enforcement officers rang the doorbell, opened the door, and climbed to the second floor, there was basically nobody.

This "factory" has formal registration procedures on the surface, and its registered project is a manufacturer of feed.

And when we came in, the machines producing feed in the workshop were indeed still running.

However, very experienced law enforcement personnel, after careful investigation, still found a very inconspicuous wooden door in the innermost room.

The wooden door can be moved, and there is a secret compartment when it is opened. The secret compartment is rotated to find many machines for making CDs, but this machine is not the main one.

This room is very small, and there is actually a bookshelf. There is nothing on the bookshelf, but there is a smell of rubber behind the bookshelf.

Experienced law enforcement officers know that it is estimated that there should be a large number of CDs inside. But no one expected that after everyone opened the bookshelves, there were actually five production lines inside, and they were all in operation at that time, producing a large number of pirated CDs.

Zhang Shaogang: As the saying goes, if you don’t make money, you can’t get early. Such a large-scale production should have a lot of benefits behind it. What is the chain of interests behind it? Who is the biggest beneficiary?

Li Tian: In this profit chain, pirates are very concealed, just like drug dealers, they will hide themselves very well.

Usually, these people have official identities to conceal themselves, and then they go to obtain the master disc, and then find the manufacturer, so it is the most difficult for law enforcement officers to track down the pirates, but the interests of the pirates are the greatest.

But our seizures this time are different. This time we caught the pirates first, and then found the production base based on the information provided by the pirates.

Zhang Shaogang: Pirates... How did the pirates get caught?

Li Tian: Some time ago, China Film Group, Bona Films, and a large film and television company organized a reward and reporting activity. They offered 1 million yuan to reward the whistleblower, and this pirate named Zhu Wenzhong was in the In this case, he was reported by his subordinates.

Zhang Shaogang: 1 million RMB... I remember that the maximum fine for copyright infringement in our country is 250,000 RMB, right? The actions of these film and television companies should be beyond their means, right?

Li Tian: That's not true.

Because as far as I know, these three film and television companies have filed a civil lawsuit in the local court of Zhongshan to recover from the pirate Zhu Wenzhong and the pirate producer Zhu Ji’an the actual loss of the film’s box office caused by their piracy, especially The movie "The Man From Earth".

Zhang Shaogang: Oh... It is the first case in the world that a film and television company pursues its actual losses from pirates, because the actual losses are really difficult to evaluate. You said your movie box office can sell 20 million, but I said It can sell for 20,000... In the end, I'm afraid even the court can't calculate it.

Li Tian: Host, I thought so too, but I found out that I was wrong.

Because the box office of other people's movies is not easy to estimate, but director Sun Hao can definitely do it, because he has actual data to support it.

At the beginning, the global box office of "Train to Busan" was 210 million U.S. dollars, while its domestic box office was 24 million yuan; the global box office of "The Martian" was 1.43 billion U.S. dollars, while its domestic box office was 167 million yuan; "Fast and Furious" has a global box office of 2.049 billion US dollars, while its domestic box office is 272 million yuan.

Based on this theory, without the piracy of pirates, the box office of "This Man From Earth", which has sold 300 million U.S. dollars in the world, should be around 35 million yuan...]

"ah…"

Zhao Laolan, who was watching TV, opened his mouth wide.

Fuck, did I make a mistake?

I have watched "The Man From Earth", but within 15 minutes of watching it, I fell asleep directly.

Grandma is tall, I can't understand what I'm talking about at all?

Just a few foreign old men and two or three women, sitting around a coffee table in a living room chatting, spanking...

Can such a movie sell 35 million yuan at the domestic box office?

Damn it, I wouldn't believe it even if I twisted my head off!

Those idle and boring American devils and European devils are easy to deceive.

Hey... In this way, I can guarantee that the two pirates and pirate producers who were caught on TV will definitely cry and faint in prison.

Sure enough, just as Zhao Laolan was thinking, the camera of the TV program switched to the face of a crying man.

【…

"My name is Zhu Wenzhong, I am wronged, I admit that I have pirated many films directed by Sun Hao in the past, and I have also made a lot of money.

But "The Man From Earth", I did lose money. I suppressed a total of 1.3 million high-definition pirated discs, but so far, less than 20,000 discs have been released.

And with only 20,000 pieces, the distributor has been following my ass calling for refunds, saying that no one will buy this movie, we can’t keep believing in the name Sun Hao, woo woo woo...\