When Simon arrived in Greenwich, Joseph Schrapp also brought Simon a bad news.

The Westeros system focused on promoting the latest version of the Digital Copyright Act, which is used to improve the Internet copyright system and copyright protection, was once again rejected during the second deliberation of the House of Representatives.

The core of the dispute is still the "safe haven regulations" among them.

Members who oppose the safe haven ordinance believe this clause is likely to be abused after it is formulated.

According to the US legislative process, a bill must be voted twice after being passed and reviewed by the House of Representatives and Senate, and after receiving support from half of the members of the parliament, it will only take effect after being signed by the president. The US president has the right to refuse to sign certain bills, and Congress also has preventive measures for this. As long as it can win the approval of more than two-thirds of the members of Congress, the bill can also be forcibly passed.

Most U.S. bills are usually hindered during the review process, and sometimes delays for five or six years and seven or eight reviews may not be passed.

The final voting process is not very suspense, because once voting begins, it often means that a bill has won the consent of most members of Congress after repeated negotiations and compromises.

“Based on the lobbying feedback data from our team, the Senate is not a big problem because the Senate Majority Leader is Gore. However, if we want to pass the House, we need to win at least 20 more votes.”

The 100 seats in the U.S. Senate remain unchanged for a long time, and the number of members of the House of Representatives is regularly fine-tuned according to the changes in the U.S. population. Currently, there are 434 seats, and more than half of the votes have at least 218. The 20 votes seem to be a small number, and it is not difficult to fight for them.

At present, the Democrats and Republicans hold 256 and 178 seats respectively. It is logical that as supporters of the Democratic Party, it should be easy for the Westeros system to pass a bill, but the fact is far from that. The Democratic Party is not a monolithic part, and the Westeros system is not welcomed by all Democrats.

One thing that can be easily imagined is that Democrats who tend toward traditional paper media groups will definitely not stand on the side of the Westeros system and continue to sit and watch the development of the Igrit Company.

Seeing that Simon was just silently looking down at a document he brought, Joseph Schrapp continued: "Connecticut House Member David Meroth, together with several other members, is seeking to promote an Internet media regulation bill recently," Schrapp said, searching for a moment in front of Simon's stack of information he brought, saying: "That's it, so if we want to pass the Digital Copyright Act, we probably need some exchanges. In addition, many members of Congress, both parties, are also seeking to relax the "intermedia ownership ban", which is also our opportunity."

Although everyone understands that platforms such as the Egret Portal are emerging Internet media companies, Egret itself positions its own news and information department as a content publisher, not a media company. The key is that the regulation that these two major areas need to be subject to is completely different.

The publishing industry in the United States has strong freedom, and the media field is subject to strict supervision due to the provisions of the US Constitution on freedom of speech.

Among them, the "transmedia ownership ban" is a major curse that restricts traditional media such as newspapers and television. This is a decree issued by the United States in the 1960s. Since the Nixon era, many media giants have been lobbying to try to lift the relevant ban.

In order to avoid media manipulation of public opinion, the main provisions of the cross-media ownership ban include that a media group shall not own more than two newspapers in the same region, shall not own newspapers and TV stations in the same region, media companies shall not own more than 12 directly affiliated local TV stations, and the audience market share of large public TV networks shall not exceed 35%, etc.

After operating in the past few years, the Westeros system can probably mobilize the congressional votes, the House of Representatives and 6 Senate. These are all members who will clearly stand on the side of the Westeros system when necessary, and they are also what Schlapp calls exchange chips.

Simon's memory is very good.

David Meroth of Connecticut was a member of parliament that William Hurst III personally introduced to him when he attended the Hurst family party. It was natural for the other party to lead the Internet media supervision bill by taking the stalemate between the Westeros system and traditional print media forces.

Relaxing the "cross-media ownership ban" is also a relaxation that traditional media groups urgently need to maintain their industry status in the context of the increasingly surging Internet industry. The deep-rooted traditional paper media such as Hirst Group, Condé Nast Group, the New York Times Group, etc., will definitely only have a lot more congressional votes than the Westeros system. If the two sides reach an agreement, it will be easy to win an additional 20 House votes for the Digital Copyright Act to be passed.

It is obvious that the main obstacle to the passage of the Digital Copyright Act is probably the case with these print media.

Simon's mind was running quickly, and suddenly looked up at Joseph Schrapp, with a smile on his lips and said, "Can't anyone want to reconcile, right?"

Joseph Schrapp was stunned. He originally wanted to find a suitable time to jump off the topic, but because he knew the character of his boss, he had to be very cautious. After all, he is working for the Westeros system and Simon Westeros. Joseph Schrapp also attaches great importance to his current status and definitely does not want Simon to speculate that he is not loyal to the Westeros system because of this message.

In recent years, even before the rise of the Internet industry, the huge paper media industry in the United States has begun to decline due to the increasingly prosperous TV industry.

Whether it is the Hurst Group, Condé Nast Group, etc., they are all seeking to develop into the television field. This is what happened to the Hurst Group snatched 20% of the shares of ESPN Sports Network from Daenerys Entertainment in the past two years.

However, before traditional paper media has completed its transformation to the TV industry, the Internet has already surged and has had a more direct and strong impact on media and paper media.

The first thing that comes to mind for veteran media forces is naturally banning and confrontation.

But now it seems that these targets are obviously futile.

In just less than four years, the popularity of Internet users in the United States has reached 30% of the total population. This development speed is far beyond the original promotion of TVs. It can be imagined that within 10 years, the popularity of the Internet may have to catch up with the TV network.

Since the confrontation is ineffective, following the trend is undoubtedly the best choice.

After a little thought, Joseph Schlap said: "The New York Times intends to open an electronic version in the near future. You know, Simon, without the support of the Igret portal to guide traffic, the other party would not have developed much at all."

Schrapp obviously has subtext.

If the New York Times electronic version wants to gain a foothold on the Internet platform, it will inevitably mean that the Igrit portal must limit its own news and information business development. After all, if the services provided by both are comparable, users will definitely prefer free Igrit portal information rather than spending money to subscribe to e-newspapers.

Compared with the deeply rooted old-fashioned media, the news and information department of the Igret Portal is actually very weak.

In terms of the number of employees, the New York Times Group is just a newspaper in the New York Times, with more than 1,600 employees around the world. The Igrit News and Information Department has grown to this point, and the total number of team members has just reached the 500-person level.

The news business has never been the core of Igret.

If the Igrit Portal had been authorized by the traditional paper media group online news, Simon would not have invested a lot of resources to form his own news team.

On the other hand, if an old media like the New York Times can digitize the large amount of paper media information it has, it can definitely enrich the content resources of the Internet platform to a large extent, which is something Simon has been promoting.

Moreover, although Simon made up his mind to let the Igrit Company grow wildly, he would not object if he could reach a settlement with some large print media. One more friend is never much better than one more enemy.

Schrapp's hint was already very obvious, Simon thought about it and asked, "Behind the New York Times, well, the Salisberg family?"

At this stage, traditional American newspapers are basically controlled by various old families, such as the Hurst family, the Salisberg family behind the New York Times Group, the Graham family behind the Washington Post, the Newhouse family behind the Condé Nast Group, etc.

Joseph Schrapp nodded and said, "Simon, if you have time, the current publisher of The New York Times, Arthur Salisberg Jr., hopes to talk to you."

Simon did not agree immediately.

The last time I had contact with the Hurst family was really not pleasant, even Rupert Murdoch was an old fox. Now that the other party had just tried, Simon was eager to respond. It was hard to say what the Salisberg family was in.

After thinking for a while, Simon said: "I will return to Los Angeles in the afternoon. If the other party has time, let him come to the West Coast. I can entertain you at any time."

Joseph Schrapp probably also understood Simon's thoughts. The stalemate between his boss and the Hurst family has not been eased at all. Even though he himself has not seen the arrogance of the old media family. Now the initiative is on the side of the Westeros system. Since the other party wants to reconcile, it is necessary to take the initiative to show goodwill.

Then we continued to talk about other things, the 1994 midterm elections that had been launched, the capital gains tax reform bill, the media industry integration ban, etc. We tried to keep Schlapp for lunch at noon, and Simon boarded the plane back to Los Angeles at 1 pm.

In the study room in the front cabin of the Boeing 767.

After the plane was stable, Girl A came in to report the morning arrangements for the information from the UK, and finally said: "Boss, Yulia Shulhikina's matter has been handled. Do you need to arrange for her to come to the United States?"

Simon was still reading the documents left by Joseph Schlap in the morning and said puzzled by hearing this: "What?"

Alison repeated: "Yulia Shulhikina."

Only then did Simon remember that the ballet teacher of the London Fruit Nana group of girls was very suitable for the Slavic girl who was in his heart.

Last time I watched the group of girls in London with Janet and contacted ballet and found out that the other party, so I told him to continue and got the information a few days ago.

A very ordinary little woman in a turbulent era, her strengths and weaknesses are probably too beautiful.

He is 31 years old this year, married once, and has a 3-year-old daughter. The girl followed a British tourist to London for two years. To be precise, she was deceived into London by a sweet-talking British banker. The other party promised a marriage and a green card, but the other party was not fulfilled. The other party had a family and a family, but just wanted to raise the other party as a lover.

The girl originally wanted to accept her fate, but she didn't expect that the banker, who was still quite rich, had to lose her direction in the pound crisis in 1992. Not only did she lose all her wealth, but she also owed millions of pounds debts. Her original marriage was also destroyed. After the destruction, the banker not only could not support her Russian lover, but also forced her to find a job to subsidize her.

When the worker of the Westeros system contacted the girl, the banker was even planning to sell the mother and daughter to London together, and the price was negotiated, 150,000 pounds.

Simon had no special feelings about this. In the turbulent era, there were countless more personal fates than this. He just sent the decayed banker to prison and arranged everything he needed for a mother and daughter. Of course, Simon also did not hide his desire to possess. He was never a bad person to save the suffering. However, the Russian girl only knew that she had become an affiliation to the big figures behind the girls in the London villa and was not sure of her identity.

Simon was just an inertial collector, and there was no shortage of women around him, so he shook his head: "Let her continue to teach girls to dance in London. By the way, don't let girls practice their toes, as if ballet dancers' toes are not very beautiful."

Alison nodded, and was a little confused. He flipped through the folder he was holding in his arms, saying, "No, it's very beautiful."

Simon looked up and saw that A girl was holding a photo in her hand. She reached out to take it and looked at it. This was a photo of a dance pose by a Russian girl. Although she was wearing thin white stockings, she could still recognize a pair of small and perfect feet.

Girl A said next to her: "I roughly know some things. Many of the deformations of ballet dancers' toes are caused by inappropriate training modes, which Yulia is very professional."

Simon recalled the last time he saw Russian girls teaching girls to practice, and he could also understand this at that time.

Putting down the photo casually, Simon said: "That's it. In addition, collect a family information behind the major American paper media groups for me, starting with the Salisberg family behind the New York Times, and try to be more detailed."
Chapter completed!