Chapter 305: Accelerated Development (1)

Since the launch on various major platforms, it has been twenty-some days in the blink of an eye since the Cybertron Cloud Drive was released.

Although compared to three or four years ago, the domestic cloud storage market has long since passed its golden age.

However, the demand for cloud storage products among netizens remains a rigid necessity; this point has not changed much even after being burned time and time again by hundreds of various cloud storage products. After all, while such products can hardly be called epoch-making, they have far too many advantages compared to traditional mobile hard drives.

College student Chu Yun is one of the many domestic netizens who likes to use cloud storage.

"... Does anyone have a download link for the movie 【Europa Universalis】? High definition with Chinese subtitles would be best..."

After showing his face in the Panda group to ask for this World War II European spy movie that had just been released abroad and was rumored to have excellent word-of-mouth, Chu Yun did not feel strange when no one replied.

The Panda group he joined is a super-large group with over 1,700 people, and everyone who applied to join is a relatively fanatical movie enthusiast in the country.

Movies, as everyone knows, are known as the "Seventh Art."

However, although art has no borders, as the most thoroughly commercialized form of art, movies were born for the sake of making money in the first place.

Copyright is a barrier that cannot be easily crossed, and coupled with the fact that the highly developed film industries of Europe and America have always been accustomed to packaging their own values within movies, their global ideological output has gradually aroused the vigilance of various countries.

So much so that now, it is almost impossible to purchase videotapes and DVDs of various European and American blockbuster movies as easily as in the last century.

This led to the current highly free internet era, where various European and American movie resources are spreading rampantly across the internet under the guise of sharing.

Cloud storage is precisely the most rampant channel for movie dissemination, and also one of the reasons for its decline.

After all, although the internet era pursues sharing and freedom, it is also an era that attaches great importance to intellectual property rights.

No one will sit by and watch movies that their company invested hundreds of millions to film with great difficulty being spread around on the internet for free.

Following one lawyer's letter after another, the continuously incoming lawsuits accelerated the government's legislation and policy tightening in this area, forcing many underpowered cloud storage companies to abandon the upload function for film and television videos, and this decision to "self-mutilate" led to a massive loss of users, ultimately leading to their demise.

"... 【Europa Universalis】 was only released in Europe and America half a month ago; there shouldn't be resources uploaded domestically so quickly..."

Muttering silently to himself, Chu Yun quickly clicked on "My Computer," let his gaze linger for a moment on the icons representing the computer's hard drives, and then clicked on a hard drive noted as "Classic Collection."

Chu Yun, who was admitted to Jiangzhen Dianli Daxue three years ago, has loved movies since he was a child, and even dreamed of becoming a superstar on the screen like Malong Bailandu when he was young.

Unfortunately, his appearance is not outstanding, and due to family genetics, his height is barely over 1.7 meters.

Although it is not only handsome men and beautiful women who can become stars, it is obvious that an unremarkable appearance would make his path much more difficult.

Having realized this after entering puberty, Chu Yun decisively gave up the idea of applying to film or performing arts schools.

However, this did not affect his love for film and television works.

After entering university, with more ample private time, Chu Yun spent almost half of his extracurricular time downloading movies of various themes and genres from home and abroad on the internet, almost addicted to watching at least four movies every day.

Seeing a bad movie naturally spoils one's appetite, but whenever he appreciates a high-quality work, while Chu Yun gains a sense of satisfaction, he cannot help but have the thought of keeping it to revisit later.

He is the type of person who acts as soon as he thinks of something; as a result, after three years of university, Chu Yun has watched countless movies and harvested at least a hundred masterpieces and classics.

To save these classic movies, there is almost no available space left on his computer hard drive, and Chu Yun even bought two mobile hard drives; unfortunately, he was unlucky enough to encounter Logic Bad Sectors twice in a row and was forced to take them for repairs, which resulted in the classic movies saved on the hard drives being wiped clean.

A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit; while troubled by his growing collection, Chu Yun began to come into contact with cloud storage under the recommendation of a friend.

Once he came into contact with it, it was truly amazing to him.

During the golden age of domestic cloud storage a few years ago, dozens or hundreds of cloud storage companies, in order to compete for the market and registered users, not only turned a blind eye to various film and television works involving copyright disputes but also provided extremely high-quality upload and download speeds.

Even in order to compete for users, they continuously increased the cloud storage space for customers, skyrocketing from the initial 1G to 100G and then to 1T in just a few years, and eventually, some cloud storage companies simply boasted about having infinite capacity.

As a result, Chu Yun was very unfortunately trapped.

For the first period of time, he was very satisfied with the several types of cloud storage he used; not only was the space large enough and the download speed fast, but the cloud storage friend circle also contributed more resources to him, allowing him to rapidly expand his collection by more than ten times in just a few months.

However, the good days did not last long.

Starting in the second half of 2014, some cloud storage companies began to limit upload and download speeds, and by the following year, at least one cloud storage company announced the cessation of services almost every month.

Up to now, there are only a few domestic cloud storage companies left, and not only is the service quality far inferior to previous years, but the restrictions on the upload and download of film and television works have also become increasingly stringent.

For example, for most of the past year, Chu Yun has been busy painstakingly re-downloading the movies he had previously uploaded to the cloud, simply because several cloud storage companies went bankrupt.

Quickly clicking on a folder to open a movie, Chu Yun, who had just returned from class, was about to relax when he suddenly seemed to remember something; he hurriedly returned to the desktop and clicked on a piece of software designed very exquisitely, looking exactly like a metal-forged fox mask.

The next moment, a cold, low male voice sounded immediately, "Cybertron, reporting to you!"

"Almost forgot, there are still some movies that haven't been uploaded to the cloud drive!"

Muttering in his mouth, Chu Yun looked at the computer with a strange light in his eyes at this new cloud drive recommended by a manager in the group not long ago.

Although he had only used it for a few days, Chu Yun had already completely felt the difference between this new software and the similar products still operating under the names of the domestic giants.

It seems to have adopted some new technology; this new cloud drive named "Cybertron Cloud Drive" has very fast upload and download speeds, but it also domineeringly occupies all resources. He once conducted an experiment, using his roommates' computers in the dormitory to download speed-limiting software in an attempt to limit the upload and download speeds of his computer's IP; he did not expect that not only was it detected and warned by the cloud drive, but it even provided a solution to perfectly circumvent various speed-limiting methods.

Not only that, Cybertron Cloud Drive also provides three different modes for selection: 【Private】, 【Share】, and 【Confidential】.

The first type is suitable for newcomers who do not often use cloud storage and some family users who need to save certain precious pictures and videos regularly; the second type is suitable for those who like to share various files through cloud storage; and the third type is suitable for users like Chu Yun who just need a storage Warehouse that will not have frequent problems like a mobile hard drive.

Although it is severely homogenized with other products, the fact that it does not limit the speed of uploads and downloads alone made Chu Yun somewhat fond of this new cloud storage product that currently has no fame.

After the software was opened, before he could take the next step, suddenly, the cloud drive operation interface flashed, and a brand-new page popped up.

Chu Yun was stunned and looked over subconsciously; it turned out to be an email from the official side, which read: "Dear 07945 user, thank you for your support of our company's products these days. Here, I represent the entire company to express our sincere gratitude to you and convey a piece of good news: the membership function is now online!"

"What is this, it turns out it's just a reminder that I can pay for a membership!"

After just a glance, this short official email was quickly scanned, and Chu Yun raised his eyebrows, but he was a little unhappy.

Even a fool knows what a membership means; although he had been quite happy using Cybertron Cloud Drive these past few days, it did not mean he could accept it.

However, although he was unhappy in his heart, out of curiosity, he still clicked on the membership recharge function that had already been lit up on the cloud drive operation interface.

Soon, he widened his eyes in surprise, "What?"

PS:

1. The updates have not been good in the past three months; the reason is laziness and being addicted to playing PUBG.

2. However, I still want to thank the 18,471 readers for their support. I once had the thought of not being able to continue writing and just cutting it off to start a new book, but I kept dragging it out to adjust my mood and finally got rid of this terrible thought. Now my credibility has long since dropped to a negative number, so I dare not make any promises easily. I will wait until the daily updates are stable and uninterrupted before talking about historical debts.

3. In about ten chapters or so, the reality content will end. Some readers might not like it, but this part must be written. I am starting to regret designing the worldview to be too grand, which makes it very difficult for me to handle with my ability when writing up to this point. If I had known, I would have just written about transmigrating directly to the Transformers World.