Chapter 253: Is My Battle Record Like I'm Using Cheats?

What kind of feeling is this? It's just like being hungry and wanting to eat, only to have a table of delicious delicacies placed right in front of you!

Originally, I just thought about letting Brother Zhou and Lawyer Fang ask how to seek Legal Aid for this kind of problem, but I didn't expect Brother Zhou to push Lawyer Fang over directly!

It really has to be you, Brother Zhou!

Hurry and accept the friend request; this is a friend slot with Lawyer Fang! Xiao Xu is now sending messages with a sort of pilgrimage-like mentality.

"Hello Lawyer Fang, I am Brother Zhou's neighbor..."

Eh, no, can't say it like that; it seems too mercenary. I should greet him like this.

After editing and deleting several greeting messages in a row, Xiao Xu now looks exactly like those men who have just added their goddess.

As it turned out, before she could even send a greeting, she saw that a voice call window had already popped up on the other side.

Xiao Xu was stunned for a moment. Is he this direct? But I haven't even...

A man who adds his goddess and racks his brains trying to come up with a good greeting, only for the goddess to ask him directly if he has booked a room—that's probably what this feeling is like.

She quickly answered the call, and Lawyer Fang's deep, resonant voice came through.

"It's Xiao Xu, right? I'm a bit busy now, so let's keep it brief. What kind of problem have you encountered?"

"Ah, oh, Lawyer Fang, it's like this, I am a web novel author..."

Xiao Xu tried her best to briefly explain the problem she had encountered earlier: faced with so many plagiarism hounds, what should she do?

For a situation like this, it would be a lie to say it doesn't affect one's state of mind.

Lawyer Fang didn't ask any questions from beginning to end, listening until the very end before saying: "Understood, it's a plagiarism issue. You want to know if it counts as plagiarism?"

"That's right, Lawyer Fang. I don't know how plagiarism is defined either. They are all saying there that it's at most a high-quality imitation and doesn't count as plagiarism, and I'm also..."

"It is indeed very difficult to define plagiarism. However, before we begin, I want to ask you a question: regarding this matter, what are your plans?"

"Are you looking for a minor scuffle, or do you want to go all the way? I need to remind you that doing this will very likely lead to one consequence: your investment will be far greater than what you gain from seeking Legal Aid."

No matter what type of Legal Aid it is, cost is the core issue!

It's not just money, but also the very precious cost of time, as well as the mental energy you expend because of this matter.

Xiao Xu fell silent for a moment. She is also a viewer who is used to watching Zhou Yi's videos, so she naturally knows what Lawyer Fang means by "going all the way."

Go all the way—as long as you think it's plagiarism, you sue everyone. That is going all the way!

But she is not Zhou Yi; she is just someone who writes novels. Not to mention anything else, just this expenditure alone is a bit hard to bear.

After a moment of silence, Xiao Xu said: "Lawyer Fang, I... I think I'll just sue that one person. Killing the chicken to scare the monkey will do."

Lawyer Fang on the other end of the phone didn't seem surprised at all: "That's no problem, of course. However, I can't take this case; you can go find another Lawyer."

"Another Lawyer?"

"That's right. Jingzhou is so big; there's no shortage of Lawyers who handle Intellectual Property Rights cases. I'll give you a number, and you can go find him directly. His level, in Jingzhou, can be considered passable."

Xiao Xu quickly wrote down the phone number Lawyer Fang gave her, chatted for a few more sentences, and then Lawyer Fang hung up.

Looking at that string of numbers, Xiao Xu began to hesitate again. Should she really file this Lawsuit?

To be honest, don't look at how Zhou Yi files Lawsuits like drinking water, as if it were very simple; Xiao Xu's appearance is the normal reaction.

One doesn't file a Lawsuit unless absolutely necessary; this is a big deal.

But just thinking about the other party's arrogant face, then let's do it!

The night passed quickly, and the next morning, Xiao Xu dialed the number.

"Hello, is this Lawyer Wu Xing? I am Xu Linna..."

"Oh, Xiao Xu, I know, I know. Teacher Fang has already greeted me. Come over; I'll send you the address. We'll meet and talk, and at that time I will tell you how to carry out the initial evidence preservation."

Wu Xing can also be considered one of Lawyer Fang's students, specializing in Intellectual Property Rights. In Lawyer Fang's evaluation, his level is just "passable."

Of course, Lawyer Wu is used to it; don't expect to hear any compliments from Teacher Fang's mouth.

At the same time, Zhou Mouren, who is addicted to games, has already received a message from Lawyer Fang. It turns out Xiao Xu is actually a web author!

I couldn't tell. He originally thought web authors were all shut-ins, the kind of hardcore nerds who pick at their feet. He didn't expect such a delicate girl to be a web author, and she even writes for the male-oriented channel.

As for plagiarism cases, Zhou Yi is not an author, so his feelings aren't very deep; he just knows that this case is not easy to fight.

For example, that author named Xiao Si who plagiarized—do you know how long that Lawsuit lasted? More than two years!

From 2004 to the final judgment in 2006, that's more than two years. Not to mention anything else, can the average person afford to drag it out?

The judgment was to compensate the other party 200,000 yuan, plus 10,000 in Mental Damage Compensation, and to issue a public apology.

But everyone, the money was paid, but do you know when Xiao Si apologized? It was fifteen years later, in 2020, that the public apology was finally made.

A Lawsuit won in 2006, and the other party didn't apologize until fifteen years later. In those fifteen years, he joined the Writers Association, made big money filming movies, and was flattered by countless celebrities, but he just never apologized.

From the start of the Lawsuit to the final apology from the other party, the duration was seventeen years!

Don't you think it's absurd? This is reality. If any novelist dared to write this, they would have been roasted to pieces long ago.

This is probably reality.

Although the new video is very "watery" in Zhou Yi's eyes, the viewers are still watching it with great interest.

It's mainly because of the legal education Lawyer Fang provided. Honestly, there are some laws and regulations that many people simply don't know about.

And a law or regulation goes through many procedures from drafting to promulgation.

Just like the Personal Information Protection Law, this is really important for many people!

Although we often joke that our little bit of personal information doesn't count for much, and if people know it, so be it.

But saying is one thing; in our hearts, we naturally don't want our personal information to be collected.

And while one person's personal information is certainly not important, what about a thousand people? What about ten thousand people?

Once the quantity goes up, this becomes Big Data.

After several giant enterprises were fined like this, it is said that they are determined to carry out rectifications, and the rectification period is half a year.

Half a year, right? It doesn't matter. Zhou Yi feels he can wait. After all, what many Companies call rectification is actually just fooling people.

I don't believe it. One maximum penalty of 0.5% doesn't count for much, but what about two times? Three times?

For now, games are more important, though he hasn't played for a while and his skills aren't what they used to be; fortunately, he can still keep up with the rhythm.

Zhou Yi's life has finally entered a normal rhythm; without those inexplicable people and inexplicable matters, everything is so harmonious.

It seems Xiao Xu really went to file a Lawsuit; this must be supported—in a society ruled by law, one must speak through the law.

His parents' life in Jingzhou has also become normal, and they have gotten to know the neighbors upstairs and downstairs.

This makes Zhou Yi very gratified; the Dog System finally hasn't come up with any more weird tricks.

It's just that life has become as plain as water, and having grown accustomed to a life of being serious, Zhou Yi feels a bit unaccustomed to such sudden tranquility.

If not for the fact that the system interface is still visible, Zhou Yi would have almost thought the System Dad had left him.

While Zhou Mouren is lost in happy troubles, in a room in Hanbei Province, Lin Xiang, who has just finished writing today's update, is preparing to play some games.

He is the "Flying Superman" who was bickering with Xiao Xu on the forum, the author who said that using Xiao Xu's creative ideas was doing her a favor.

That is what Lin Xiang said, and of course, that is what he thinks; web novels are meant to be copied from one another, he just borrowed the other party's opening and used their creative ideas, so what of it?

Besides, plagiarism is hard to define, and while the other party did go to the editor to find his editor, who told her to have such good performance? Good performance means one can do whatever one wants.

As for whether the other party will file a Lawsuit...

Don't joke around; having written web novels for so many years, he has seen countless cases of plagiarism, but when have you ever heard of anyone actually filing a Lawsuit?

At most, they just curse a few times there; cursing a few times doesn't matter, earning money is what's best.

He opened the forum and took a look; unsurprisingly, there was another pile of people cursing him.

Lin Xiang's hands flew as he began to reply: "No wonder they say everyone on this forum is a loser; a bunch of jealous monsters, keep being jealous, you curse your curses, I earn my money!"

After replying, he really laughed at the group of losers.

Just at this moment, Lin Xiang saw his Penguin account start to blink; he clicked it open and it was a message from his editor.

"Our website has been named as a Defendant; the other party is demanding that the website hand over your personal information, and they will likely file a Lawsuit against you for plagiarism next, and the website will also be included as a Defendant."

What? Lin Xiang was stunned when he saw this notice; that author named "Xu Xu Er Lai" actually really wants to file a Lawsuit against him?

No, how could that be? Doesn't she worry about losing the lawsuit?

Although he jumped around so fiercely online, telling the other party to go ahead and sue whenever he felt like it, in reality, this is the first time Lin Xiang has been sued, so his mood suddenly began to become uneasy.

To tell the truth, whether a book has been plagiarized or not, the author themselves knows it best!

"Boss, then what should be done now?"

"The Company's intention is for you to hurry up and make revisions, issue a public apology, and if that doesn't work, take the book down, then reach a Mediation; however, your royalties will not be issued due to the violation."

"No, Boss, this, how can this be!"

You are as awesome as you can be when the website is protecting you, but you are just as miserable when you are being harvested like a leek.

You plagiarized, and we won't deal with it immediately; we wait for you to earn a month's worth of money from them, and once it's earned, right before the royalties are issued, we deal with it directly.

Ban the book, deduct the royalties.

Of course, for this type of hit book, the website itself wants to protect it to the death, to earn a few more months of money first.

But they didn't expect that the author on the other side would actually file a Lawsuit herself, filing it in the capacity of an author!

This is truly inconceivable; under such circumstances, the website naturally won't protect him to the death.

The leek that needs to be harvested must be harvested.

And so, very quickly, Xiao Xu added the Penguin account of the website staff on the other side.

"So, just banning the book, that's it?"

Xiao Xu asked back.

"Then what do you mean..."

"Plagiarized my work and then made money, and now you're not saying a word about that money, right?"

The other party said nothing and directly started playing dead.

Fine, anyway, the Lawsuit has already been filed, so let's just go to court as usual.

…………

Another beautiful day.

Zhou Yi climbed out of bed, falling into the normal confused state of "Who am I, where am I, what am I doing."

Being addicted to games during this period has led to an irregular life, and now his wake-up time has been pushed to ten o'clock.

Yesterday, he couldn't resist and spent five hundred yuan in the game to buy a new skin.

It really wasn't that he couldn't resist, it was mainly that these game companies now truly understand the psychology of men; look at how that skin is made, it's just so attractive.

So, after constant hesitation, Zhou Mouren still decided to chop his hands...

Of course, this is mainly because he has money now.

Back when he was working, how could he have any money to buy skins?

But one thing is one thing, this new skin is just a blast to play with; putting aside the looks, that feel is just impossible to refuse.

Therefore, today Zhou Mouren intends to have a good battle!

Accompanied by the "timi" sound, the game was opened, and Zhou Yi just sat on the bed like that, intending to play a quick round.

But just as the game opened, he discovered something was wrong; wait, what is this notification message?

"Dear Summoner, the system has detected that you have used third-party plugins; your account has been banned, and will be unbanned on 2030-00:00. Please regulate your gaming behavior and maintain the justice and fairness of the competitive environment together with everyone!"

What the hell, my account was banned? And it was banned for ten years?

Zhou Mouren sat there, completely stunned; I just topped up five hundred yuan yesterday and was killing it, and you banned me today?

Also, what does it mean by using third-party plugins? Does this mean I used a cheat?

But damn it, the best record my account had yesterday was only 8-8; is this the kind of record you can get by cheating?

This is a bit ridiculous.

It might also be a false ban; well, I have to find customer service again.

It was a pity that Zhou Mouren did not know where the customer service for this lousy game was; only after searching on Baidu did he learn that he could find customer service on WeChat to file an appeal.

Then he would appeal; it was five hundred yuan, and although he had just received a reward of two hundred thousand and several thousand yuan in compensation, money that should be saved could not be spent recklessly.

Soon, following the tips online, Zhou Yi found the appeal portal and described his issue regarding the account ban.

I, Zhou Mouren, could absolutely never have used cheats!

The appeal was completed, and it said there would be a result within three working days, so he would just wait.

He couldn't even play a game smoothly.

He might as well go to work first; he arrived at the Company, and before he had even settled into his seat in his office, he heard bursts of noise coming from outside.

"What's going on?"

"General Manager Zhou, someone in our Company suddenly fainted and is constantly convulsing!"

What?

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PS: The thing Zhou Yi forgot in the previous chapter has been revised. You were right to criticize; it was my stupidity, you can go back and take a look.

Morning... a throat-soothing chapter. Without further ado, I had to accompany a client for a meal yesterday and drank too much; I felt terrible all day today, but I finally feel a bit better now and have started writing.

Thanks to Wenchidage, y1yyy, Shiziliuxue, Yuanxianglizhen, Book Friend 1211, Youyigexinshoudage, Xingkonghuanxiang, Feimaowuyu, Book Friend 2022, Xiao Shufu, Xianglongdage; thank you brothers for the tips, thank you.

There is one more chapter today. What everyone said about the plagiarism incident is also correct; the immersion was indeed not strong, so I wrote a little bit and then skipped over it.

(End of this chapter)