I wonder if you agree with this statement?
You know, the sales of European and American records imported from China are not included in the singer's official record sales.
Our purchase of records can help the singer increase the income of his record company at most, and they will consider introducing the singer's records in the future.
And the singer won't get a share of the sales of imported records!
Due to institutional reasons, foreign cultural units are not allowed to directly engage in sales in the mainland of China, so the mainland has always purchased foreign copyrights, then reported them to the cultural department for approval, and then copied them for sale. Moreover, this plagiarized product cannot be sold internationally. Look at the back of the imported CD, don't you think it's all written? Only sold in China, except Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In other areas, those directly released by the record company to which the singer belongs can be circulated at will. China's export/import CDs are not available abroad.
For example, "Meika Video", "Wen Jing Records" and so on.
These can be seen on the back of the imported version of the record.
If you have bought the original, you will know that they all print the name of the record company directly on the back.
Without going through any other distribution company or publishing house, that is the real soundtrack.
That is to say, except for mainland China, almost all of them are directly released by the record company to which the singer belongs. For example, Britney Spears belongs to JIVE Records and is usually released by JIVE Records or Sony BMG, the parent company of JIVE Records. Moreover, this kind of distribution does not transfer copyright. And by the singer's record company directly pressure plate, production, quality assurance. So these are all originals. Generally speaking, they are called Japanese edition, British edition, European international edition, American edition, Asian international edition, Hongkong edition and Taiwan Province Province edition. ......
In addition, the so-called genuine records imported from the mainland have been done quite carelessly in some places.
I even saw the words "printed in America" on the back of the imported CD! ! !
I don't know what you think about this. !
There are also imported CDs with foreign soundtracks. Is this record making professional enough?
So why is it called "genuine record"?
Because it is legal in China, the publisher owns the copyright and pays relevant taxes.
Therefore, the state recognizes the legality of such audio-visual products,
So the definition of "genuine" is legal.
What's more, the original disc and CD you bought now are smuggled in.
There are no tariffs, so the state regards them as "pirated" records.
Those are original records made in Europe and America.
Others, an imported record, the price is about 150, and the tariff has been paid.
So it's called genuine, which is actually no different from low-priced original.
* The above information is for reference and discussion only, so you can make your own judgment. Thank you.
Correction: The so-called original and tap are not known as smuggled records. In fact, it is the overstocked products that foreign record companies can't sell, and then they are sold to China as waste plastic waste through legal channels for disassembly, burial and degradation. Some people say that the mouth on the record was made by our customs, but it is not. The mouth on the record was marked as rubbish by foreign countries. The so-called distribution center along the coast of Guangdong is actually a big garbage dump abroad, but some people are smart enough to sell garbage as normal records, so there are so-called hit and original discs. -Melon Shepherd Dog
* Thanks to Guagua for his speech. I will repost an article about it below. Friends who are interested and have time may benefit a lot:
The following is the news I have collected over the years about Newsweek's CD-ROM tapping.
Dakou industrial chain
Our reporter/Li Jianmin
Like other "black economies", the business of fighting has always been underground, and the buying and selling are all strange. No one can tell how many tapes and CDs China has digested in the past 10 years, and how many crack dealers have made a fortune from it.
Of course, the days of fighting are not always so good. It must not only compete with genuine and pirated products for the market, but also guard against the ban by the competent authorities.
& gt& gt& gt The source of China's big mouth
The recognized source of tapping is Chaoyang, Shantou, Guangdong. Guangdong is located at the south gate of China, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, with a land coastline of more than 3,300 kilometers, which is the meeting point of Chinese and foreign cultures. Chaoshan people are known as "Oriental Jews". They are good at business because they eat the sea and have a lively mind.
In the early 1990s, due to the need of plastic processing and tape making, Shantou was in urgent need of a large number of plastic materials. People who have connections overseas find that the pressure on some raw materials can be alleviated by importing "foreign garbage" from foreign record companies.
Although the foreign recording industry is extremely developed, it also has its own problems. Record companies have to deal with a large number of "outdated" tapes and CDs almost every month, because the contracts with singers have been cancelled, and the warehouses need to be cleaned up, resulting in overproduction or unqualified quality.
Theoretically, these "expired goods" are either crushed or burned to prevent them from entering the market again. But in fact, record companies often do things hastily, just exploiting a loophole, which shows that they have been "destroyed"
Originally, these things could be recycled, but in the United States or Canada, the recycling cost may be higher.
But if it is dumped as garbage or sold to developing countries, it can be described as "killing two birds with one stone". As a result, these "outdated goods" were not completely eliminated materially, but were transported to the docks by middlemen, packed in boxes in the name of waste plastics, and sent to distant Eastern Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia ... and China.
In Shantou, China, their business partners are eagerly awaiting the arrival of these "foreign garbage".
After the cargo ship docked, several people with connections went directly to the dock to pick up the goods. Then these big bosses sold them to the first-class wholesalers in Chaoyang area by tons, and the source of China's snoring was born here.
The wholesalers in Chaoyang can be said to be the biggest beneficiaries, because they buy by weight, but in the end they sell by the number of sheets, and the profit difference inside can be imagined.
Fang Hao, senior manager and music critic of Star Media, told reporters that the "final destination" of these "foreign garbage" is to be sent to the local plastic processing factory before it becomes a business. Basically, all the local fishermen did this business, and later they became large, and some fishermen bought freight cars for their docks.
"If we insist on doing this, some people may become billionaires now." Hao Wei said.
& gt& gt& gt underground business kingdom
1992 Fang Hao and a friend have been to Chaoyang, when the telephone business just started. Because his friend is not good at music, he needs someone to help him choose goods.
After the boss of Chaoyang cleaned up, the first batch of retail mouthpiece in China was born. Of course, they will also leave some "sharp goods" (good things), such as beautifully packaged classical records, dozens of Miles Davis albums, or the complete works of some companies (such as the famous jazz brand Blue Note), either for their own collection or for distribution when the goods are not good enough in the future.
Pick the rest by yourself, give it to the higher-level wholesaler, or go down to the retailer to pick the goods by yourself. Then it is sent to many large, medium and small cities in China through a secret and smooth freight system extending in all directions.
In this way, with the true spirit of capitalism-from scratch, these mouthpieces created an underground business kingdom.
You can calculate 1 container (one container 12m) =400 = 4,800 = 96,000 CDs. 10 How many mouthparts have flowed into China so far? Like the stars in the sky, who can count them?
Take Beijing as an example. It is reported that 70% of Beijing's mouthpiece is distributed by two wholesalers in the south, and the remaining 30% are basically Shanghainese except the retailers themselves. After these intermediate links, the price of mouthpiece rose sharply. It costs about one or two yuan to get one from a wholesaler, but it can often be sold in retail for more than 10 yuan.
The original disc (not punched or perforated, and the contents are not damaged) is more expensive. At the earliest, it averaged around 20 yuan. Because there is no clear price tag on the microphone, plus bargaining in the transaction process, the price will change. But after deducting the freight and so on, the profit must be at least doubled.
At the earliest time, tapes were mostly used for oral sex. These seemingly insignificant things were surprisingly expensive at that time.
Fang Hao told reporters that after 1994 Nirvana band lead singer kurt cobain committed suicide, their things were suddenly very rare, and they were deeply read, and they might all sell for 70 to 80 yuan. He bought two tapes of 50 yuan himself, both of which were cut. One is the utopia of sonic youth, and the other is an anthology of Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
& gt& gt& gt "Fight": Become a pirate and destroy it.
After 1998, the "golden age" of fighting basically passed, mainly because of the prosperity of piracy. Interestingly, at the beginning, the rise of slapping was due to piracy (because piracy requires a lot of plastic materials), which once stole the limelight of piracy in the following years, but finally had to admit defeat.
Fang Hao said: "In fact, piracy not only destroyed the genuine record industry, but also put an end to this struggle."
Speaking of the prosperity of piracy, in fact, it is partly due to credit. Rumor has it that many megaphones were later pirated. After the baptism of bad singing, these people have made a qualitative leap in their understanding of western pop music, knowing what kind of music fans like, what kind of music is popular in the market, and the variety and quantity of pirated music are beyond the reach of bad singing.
It is said that these tasteful pirates are always out of stock, although their piracy scope is relatively small. The packaging and technology of their products are more professional than most domestic original records, which is acceptable to many quiet white-collar workers and middle class.
The taste of fans is more and more sharp, and the mouthpiece is basically the staple food of big companies, and there are few things with different styles and independent brands. Now it can't meet the needs of China fans, and it's reasonable that the business is deserted until today's decline.
Now, there are fewer mouthparts on the market, but the quality is getting better and better, so the original plate, which is no different from the original, has become the mainstream of the mouthparts market-by the middle and late 1990 s, the "garbage" with broken mouthparts and eye-catching gradually declined, and the original plate was what fans wanted.
As for why there are so many original discs, it is said that the middleman bribed people from foreign record companies to be merciful.
Fang Hao said that he wandered around the United States last year and found several cigarette holders in some "second-hand markets". "Think of it as a business, maybe only China."
Investigating the sprout of China's big mouth industry, we will find that it is inevitable by accident. Who was the first to discover that those mouthparts that were not destroyed could be sold? There's no way to prove it now. But behind this accident, there is a profound inevitability.
& gt& gt& gt "mouth" = "demand"
After the reform and opening up, the younger generation in China showed a strong desire for western culture, including music. However, China still maintains a monopoly on the import and export of audio-visual products. China Book Import and Export Corporation (China Pictures) is still the only institution in China that has the right to import genuine foreign records (finished products). Other units and companies engaged in this business are considered illegal. However, the things imported from China Library can hardly meet the needs of China fans.
There is also the question of price. The price of most imported genuine records is above 100 yuan, and the imported version is around 60 yuan, which is unbearable for ordinary working class, especially for teenagers, the main consumer group of audio-visual products. The price is expensive and the variety is few. When the supply cannot meet the demand, it is difficult to avoid the emergence and prosperity of counterfeiting and even piracy.
According to the statistics of China Audiovisual Association, the annual sales of CDs (including music and videos) in China is about 5 billion, but at present, the annual production capacity of all legal production lines in China is only 600 million, and the huge market gap here is filled by counterfeiting and piracy.
Therefore, although lip-synching bears the same stigma of infringing intellectual property rights as piracy, "cheap and beautiful" lip-synching makes people unable to refuse, so that consumers can safely put one lip-synching tape after another into their record collections, even though it is engraved with shameful signs.
Punching in can be said to be a clever loophole in the law. It is legal for it to enter China in the name of waste plastics, but it is illegal to sell it in the market in the form of finished audio-visual products.
When defining the nature of copybook, the competent department generally regards it as piracy or smuggling, or generally calls it illegal audio-visual publication, but it has never been defined as copybook, and it is handled in the same way as piracy and smuggling.
According to the staff of the Audio-Visual Department of China Library, before 1994, China Library also imported a batch of CDs, but after the intervention of relevant parties, the company stopped this business. Up to now, a batch of goods are still stored in the warehouse and cannot be sold.
However, the staff of the Audio-visual Department of China Library stressed that these CDs entered China through formal channels and passed the examination, but their prices were far lower than those of similar products sold abroad at normal prices. In essence, the CDs imported from China Library are different from those on the market.
So it is easy to equate "mouth" with "demand".
As for whether Dakou (or the original disc now) will eventually disappear, in the words of Yan Jun, a music critic, "As long as the publication and import of audio-visual products in China are monopolized and blocked, as long as the purchasing power of China people is not strong enough, (Dakou) will not disappear".
-reprinted from Newsweek
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