Chapter 1060 – Aiwa is being sued (1/2)
“Kameda, Heitaro, why are both of you here?” Feng Yu was surprised to see Kameda Masao and Heitaro Nakajima in his Wind and Rain Empire State Building’s office.
Kameda Masao should be liaising with Tai Hua Holdings on its hard disk technologies as they had spent a lot of money to buy technologies. They should set up factories and a research center to continue developing it.
As for Heitaro Nakajima, AIWA had introduced a new earphone, and he should be focusing on its sales now.
“Boss, AIWA is being sued!” Heitaro Nakajima said.
“Huh? Being sued?! Why? By whom?” Feng Yu first thought to his mind is Sony is finding trouble with AIWA again.
“We are being sued by a company called, Recording Industry a.s.sociation of America, for intellectual property rights infringements because we are allowing free downloads of MP3 songs.” Heitaro Nakajima explained.
Feng Yu frowned. “Didn’t I ask you all to set up a website that charges users when they download MP3, and you told me that it had been done?”
“Yes. The website is up, and our customers who bought our MP3 players will get a free account that allows them to have unlimited downloads for a month. We had also gotten the property rights to the songs. But many of the users are unhappy with the variety of songs on our websites, and some websites started providing free downloads of songs. This had nothing to do with us.”
Heitaro Nakajima is frustrated. He felt like he is a knife seller, and someone had bought and used the knife to kill someone. How can he be responsible for that crime? Furthermore, he had reminded this customer that the knife he sold is supposed to be used in the kitchen and not for killing others!
That Recording Industry a.s.sociation must be jealous of the rising sales of AIWA’s MP3 players!
We are not selling counterfeits, and why are we being sued?
Kameda Masao added. “The courts in the US had accepted this case and want us to attend courts. I had hired the best lawyer on the East Coast, and we will win this case!”
“Yes. You are right. They are jealous of our product. Since we had done nothing wrong, we will fight this case to the end. Not only must we win this case, but we also have to drag it out by one or two months and let the media report about this.”
Heitaro Nakajima does not understand the purpose of doing this, but Kameda Masao replied with an ‘impressed’ expression. “Boss, you want to use this court case to promote our MP3 players? This will surely attract the attention of many people, and it is equivalent to advertising all over the US and the world. Our MP3 player sales will surely skyrocket!”
It’s easy to speak to a smart person. Heitaro Nakajima might be talented in developing music-related electronic products and management. Still, in terms of sales, Kameda Masao is much better.
Also, Heitaro Nakajima is getting older, and his mind is not as sharp as before. He is not as motivated in the past two years, compared to before. Seems like it’s time to get a successor for AIWA.
Heitaro Nakajima’s deputy is a good candidate. He is below 40 years old and had been working for Heitaro Nakajima for almost 20 years. He had experienced AIWA’s ups and downs with Heitaro Nakajima, and most importantly, he is ambitious and good at flattery like Kameda Masao.
Feng Yu does not like people without ambition. He is not afraid of his subordinates being ambitious, as none of his subordinates can escape his clutches!
“Heitaro Nakajima, our second generation of MP3 players, had been released. When are we introducing the third generation?” Feng Yu asked.
“We will release the third generation of MP3 players after we won the court case. This new MP3 player will have bigger storage of 512mb, and it’s only the size of two fingers. It will be using two No.7 batteries and can last for 8 hours. There will be an LCD display, and the customer can set up a playlist…”