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Operating a huge e-mail user base, Eaglet has actually been attacked by hackers very frequently, and the company's security team has also grown larger as a result.

Now, if only technology and services are provided, and the management of e-mail is the responsibility of the user, Eaglet can get rid of a large part of the responsibility after an information leakage accident.

In addition, there are many more long-term considerations.

For example, the US government inevitably monitors the Internet field.

Later, the United States was always used to accusing other countries of stealing Internet information and threatening network security. Simon was not clear about how other countries would do it, but the U.S. government’s monitoring of the Internet has been a real blow more than once.

On the original timeline, after the 911/[-] incident, the Patriot Act promoted by the Bush administration was actually a surveillance bill.

The bill stipulates that the US government has the right to view citizens' emails in the name of the national security belt.

With the long-standing monitoring habits of the US government, even without 911, Simon can be sure that the US government will intervene in the Internet for other reasons in the future.

If there is only one e-mail service platform on the Internet platform, Eaglet will face strong pressure no matter whether it agrees to the monitoring requirements of the US government or not.

Now, if the voluntary abandonment of the monopoly on e-mail technology results in a large number of e-mail service providers and a larger number of private or corporate e-mail servers appearing in the Internet market, no matter what the U.S. government wants to do, the one that needs to bear the pressure will not Then there is the Ygritte family.

Moreover, now that the e-mail technology is released and the standards of Eaglet are rapidly promoted, it can also prevent other companies from developing alternative technologies.

Eagletec no longer provides a full range of services, and no longer restricts servers to the Eagletec network platform. Users can build their own servers and process information by themselves. This will also allow many companies that are concerned about confidentiality to accept this service. Therefore, it is conducive to the wider promotion of the electronic mailbox service.

In order to finalize this matter, Simon intended to stay in San Francisco for a few days, negotiating with the Eaglet team on the overall details of the open email technology.

Just when the candidates for the Senate in California accused the Westeros system of controlling the Internet industry, the plan had just been finalized. As a counterattack, the Eaglet team held a press conference with great fanfare and announced it.

Of course, after several disputes and compromises, this technology will still be a limited openness.

In the short term, the objects of technology openness will only be companies and government departments. Moreover, groups authorized by technology cannot provide e-mail services to the public unless they are allowed.

By doing so, it is obviously possible to avoid competitors from Igret Mailbox.

Moreover, the restrictions imposed by Eaglet Company are completely reasonable in the eyes of outsiders.

However, Simon does not actually intend to take full control and not allow other service providers to appear.

In fact, after the plan was completed, the Eaglet team began secret negotiations with Microsoft and AOL.

As long as the agreement can be successfully reached, both AOL and Microsoft will start their own e-mail service business.

Of course, it is impossible to authorize this technology only to companies in the Westeros system. In the face of many applicants, Igret is also looking for other partners outside the Westeros system.

So until September 9th, when Simon returned to Los Angeles, Daenerys Entertainment's "Desperate Housewives", which was created for the USA TV network this fall, is also about to officially start broadcasting.

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Desperate Housewives' official premiere date is Thursday, September 9.

It's a very golden time for TV dramas.

On the other hand, I have to say that the launch time of "Desperate Housewives" is really a bit of a coincidence.

The "Forbes" list of the 400 richest people in the United States has just been released, and the heated discussion has not subsided. At this time, a TV series rumored to be directed and co-created by Simon Westero was launched, even if it was a female TV station. The show, of course, has attracted a lot of attention.

The USA TV network also seized this opportunity just right, and spared no effort to promote "Desperate Housewives".

Of course, just like the box office is to movies, ratings are always an inescapable topic for a TV series. How "Desperate Housewives" is still depends on the ratings.

The first episode of "Desperate Housewives" starts at [-] p.m. on Thursday nights, preceded by "The Housewives of New York," which aired the previous week.

As one of the highlights of the new year of the USA TV network, it is related to the further layout of the TV network. The executives of the USA TV network almost stayed at the headquarters on the east and west coasts to wait for the ratings results in real time.

When the ratings of "The Beautiful Wife of New York" as the lead show suddenly rose sharply at the end of the episode, the executives of USA had already faintly realized something.

At nine o'clock, the first season of "Desperate Housewives" started broadcasting, and the ratings directly surpassed "The Real Housewives of New York" by a large margin.

Moreover, comparing the first episode of "The Beautiful Wife of New York" in the second season, it is not difficult to find that the preliminary ratings data of the second season of this reality show is obviously better than the first episode.

USA originally planned to let "The Beautiful Wife of New York", which is the mainstay of TV ratings, guide the popularity of "Desperate Housewives", but an obvious result is that this just-launched drama series actually boosted the popularity of "Desperate Housewives" because of the previous attention. The popularity of The Housewives of New York.

Early the next morning, various mainstream media in North America published reviews of this much-watched new drama.

"Variety Show" praised "Desperate Housewives" as "just after its broadcast, it has built a fascinating and mysterious country through distinctive characters and excellent plot foreshadowing, and people can't help but start to look forward to the further development of the story."

A critic of "The Hollywood Reporter" also said jokingly, "Before the show started, I doubted whether Simon Westero participated in the creation of the show. After the show started, I couldn't help but doubt even more. How did Stroh do it so well'.

Apart from the two professional media, most other mainstream newspapers also praised "Desperate Housewives".

Later, when the ratings data was exposed, "Desperate Housewives" completely confirmed the label of the dark horse in the autumn ratings.

After more than a year of reorganization and expansion, the current USA TV network covers a total of 7200 million viewers in the United States, which is equivalent to about one-third of the current population of the United States.

Such a ratings base is actually not too high among the major cable TV networks in the United States.Turner Broadcasting Corporation's CNN and Viacom's MTV television network have a much larger audience coverage than the USA.

Moreover, in the early 90s, several major traditional American TV networks still occupied a very strong market position.Although cable TV is popularizing rapidly, most of the cable TV networks that appear in the audience candidate program list as bundled packages, except for CNN and MTV, basically have low ratings. Many channels such as history and science and technology often have viewers for ten and a half days It is not selected once a month, and occasionally it is pressed by the remote control, and it is often skipped casually.

Before the merger of MCA, although the USA TV network was stronger than many unpopular cable channels that were often skipped, it was still far behind popular cable TV networks such as CNN and MTV.

Through the operation of the previous year, USA took "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and "The Real Housewives of New York" as the leading role. With the development of other programs and spare no efforts in publicity and distribution, this originally inconspicuous cable TV network has successfully confirmed In order to establish itself as a women's TV network, the average viewership of the two main serious shows in the previous ratings year also exceeded 500 million, which is already a very good result.

It can be said that the accumulation of many years before and the reorganization of USA in the past year have laid a very good foundation for the rise of this cable TV network.

The coverage of 7200 million viewers is enough for this TV network to show its own strength.

Therefore, when "Desperate Housewives", which does not lack topics and attention, was launched, and the quality of the series itself was very good, many things came naturally.

In the end, on the first day of broadcast, the average number of viewers for the first episode of "Desperate Housewives" reached 736 million, and the core ratings for the 18-49 age group were 4.1.At the same time, the highest number of viewers for the entire first episode of the series reached a high of 871 million, and the highest number appeared in the second half of the first episode, which also vaguely indicates that the ratings of subsequent episodes of "Desperate Housewives" are likely to continue to rise .

At the same time, the ratings ranking of "Desperate Housewives" also rushed to No.6 on Thursday night.

The top five are all PBS TV shows.

In comparison, "The Wife of New York", which originally wanted to be the lead of "Desperate Housewives" to guide the popularity of this new drama, had an average viewership of only 591 million in the second episode of the second season, with a core rating of 2.7. It is a bit higher than the average viewership of the first episode of 576 million.

You know, under normal circumstances, the ratings of the first episode of a non-premiere sequel are often relatively high.

Obviously, "The Beautiful Wife of New York" not only failed to guide the popularity of "Desperate Housewives", but was influenced by "Desperate Housewives" and increased the ratings.

On Thursday night, the TV series with the highest ratings data was NBC's "Law and Order", with 1756 million viewers and a rating of 10.7.

The ratings of "Law and Order" and "Desperate Housewives" seem to be very different. However, NBC's coverage is almost nationwide, while USA's audience coverage is only one-third of the US population. Moreover, The positioning of the female TV station of the USA TV network once again limited the performance of "Desperate Housewives".

Under the double influence, "Desperate Housewives" was able to reach an average viewership of 736 million, and showed a trend of continuous rise. As a cable TV series, it has reached the 'phenomenal level'.

If the two dramas are put on the same standard platform, it is not difficult to imagine that the ratings data of "Desperate Housewives" can definitely beat "Law and Order".

With the exposure of the ratings data of "Desperate Housewives" and the heated discussion in the media, many cable TV providers began to contact Daenerys Entertainment, hoping to introduce the USA TV network.

In order to speed up the promotion of USA TV network, in the past year, the cable TV network did not increase the operator's share.However, as the number of operators requesting the introduction of the USA TV network increases, the management team can also start to consider increasing the share price.

At the same time, the advertising price increase of the USA TV network is immediate.

While intensively planning the follow-up development strategy, Daenerys Entertainment was not stingy, directly announcing that it would hold a celebration party for the main creative team of the series on the weekend after the broadcast of "Desperate Housewives".

Although USA Television Network is jointly owned by Daenerys Entertainment and Paramount Communications, the location of the celebration party was naturally chosen at the event center of Daenerys Studios in Malibu.

On September 9, when it was dark, the employee activity center on the second floor of Daenerys Studios was already full of people.

The three main programs of the USA TV network have been launched recently, not only the just-launched "Desperate Housewives", but also the other two main shows, the new seasons of "Beverly Housewives" and "New York Housewives" have also won awards. Very good ratings data, and the main creators of some other TV programs on the TV network were also invited, so the scene in the party hall obviously carried a hint of yin and yang decline.

"Ms. Ward, you're so good and charming as Bree, the perfect housewife, and I can't wait for the second episode to air."

"Thank you, sir?"

"My name is Jon Peterson."

"Oh, I know, Mr. Peterson, nice to meet you."

"It's nice to meet you too," Jon Peterson shook hands with Sela Ward politely, and then said in a very casual tone: "By the way, Ms. Ward, I happen to have a character for the project in my hand." It's very suitable for you, can you leave a contact information, maybe we can take the time to try and chat?"

Although the coffee position in the past was very low, Sela Ward knew a lot of internal trends in Hollywood.

As the person in charge of the film business of Sony's Columbia Pictures, and one of the most experienced producers in Hollywood, he has cooperated with big names such as Spielberg.If it is other actresses, hints like Jon Peterson can often be easily 'hands-on'.

However, hearing what the middle-aged man in front of him said at this time, the smile on Sheila Ward's face did not change much, but her eyes subconsciously searched among the crowd.

Still haven't seen a guy.

A little disappointed, but no longer hesitated.

Sometimes, the more straightforward the rejection, the less trouble you get.

Relying on the success of "Desperate Housewives", even though it is only a TV series, she is also very clear that she has firmly established herself in Hollywood. If everything goes well for this drama series in USA, it is definitely possible to shoot more than three seasons easily, even five or six seasons is not impossible.

Such a long time is enough for her to look for further opportunities without relying on external forces at all.

Now that some guy stuffed her in this show, she'll probably be stuck in TV circles in the future, but that's not bad.She is 36 years old this year. In the film industry, without strong support, it would have been difficult to make much progress.

Quickly making up her mind, Sela Ward shook her head and said apologetically, "Unfortunately, Mr. Peterson, I didn't bring my business card tonight."

"It's okay," Jon Peterson repeatedly didn't feel the rejection of the woman in front of him, and he readily took out a business card of his own and handed it over, saying, "There is my contact information on it, Ms. Ward, if you are interested, You can contact me anytime."

Seeing this situation, Sela Ward had no choice but to reach out and take the other party's business card.

As a veteran producer in Hollywood, Jon Peterson certainly has no lack of pride in himself, and left decisively after sending a business card.

Holding a glass of champagne in one hand and holding a business card in the other, Sela Ward hesitated for a moment. She was about to put the business card in her handbag. I saw the figure of a young man.

Westeros was walking into the hall while chatting with Martin Davis, the chairman of Paramount Communications, followed by several other people, and the guests in the hall also turned their attention to a certain young man.

Coincidentally, the other party also happened to look over, and looked at the business card in her hand with great interest.

There is an inexplicable feeling of being raped.

Immediately, he secretly poohed twice in his heart, he only had one-night stand with him once.Although, well, that night in Seattle had been pretty good, a certain man had been a rare presence in her life since then.

Hollywood is big, she is just a small person after all.

The eyes on the other side retracted as soon as they made contact. For a short moment, it seemed that nothing happened.

Sela Ward noticed that many guests around her were quietly gathering towards Westeros, and she couldn't help but feel more guilty. After reacting, she quietly pushed in the opposite direction, and deliberately pushed the business card away with a bit of anger. Put it in the handbag, as if to prove to something that I am not afraid of a certain guy.

On the other side, Simon nodded to the guests who came forward to greet him from time to time, and finally came to sit down by a sofa in the corner of the hall, and talked with Martin Davis about the next plan of the USA TV network, and the topic could not help turning to the two sides in the movie aspects of cooperation.

During this time, Simon has been considering one thing, whether to continue to postpone the development of the "Mission: Impossible" series.

The main reason is that next year's schedule is really crowded.

Especially at the end of next year.

It's just Daenerys Entertainment. If all the originally planned films are withdrawn, there will be 3D animation "The Lion King", "Forrest Gump" and "Mission Impossible" in cooperation with Paramount Pictures.In addition, "Steel Bone" of the DC movie universe will also be released at the end of next year.

Leaving other things aside, "The Lion King" and "Forrest Gump" are two blockbusters with a box office volume of [-] to [-] million US dollars in the original time and space, which would have consumed most of the resources of a schedule. Impossible and Cyborg, then the ending will only cause internal friction.

It is of course possible to adjust the schedule.

However, in the summer of 1994, there was "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises".

This is another $3 million blockbuster.

In fact, it is the same after that.

It can't be dragged on forever.

After deliberating for a long time, and after several discussions with Paramount, Simon roughly made a decision. The development plan of "Mission: Impossible" remains the same, and the schedule of "The Lion King" remains unchanged. At the same time, "Forrest Gump" is adjusted. By the summer of 1994, the release date was roughly determined to be the American Independence Day holiday in July, which was a month behind "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" in June.

Independence Day is very suitable for the theme of "Forrest Gump". With a one-month difference, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" will not have too much impact on "Forrest Gump".

As for the end of 1993, one blockbuster film with a volume of [-] million US dollars was reduced, and several other films will have enough room to play.

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At the party, I talked with Simon about the USA TV network and the film cooperation between Paramount and Daenerys. Martin Davis glanced around and asked in a low voice: "Simon, do you think the pound can support this time?" Can you live?"

In the past week, the Quantum Fund led by Soros officially launched an attack on the European Monetary System.

In just three days, the Italian lira declared its fall and voluntarily chose to depreciate.

The international hot money that had won the first battle then turned its target to the pound.

On September 9 and September 17, the two sides played against each other several times.

In order to prevent foreign exchange speculation, the British government raised the short-term lending rate of sterling to an astonishing 15%, and invested nearly [-] billion pounds worth of foreign exchange reserves to undertake the sale orders of sterling in the foreign exchange market, which barely maintained the exchange rate.

However, international hot money obviously has no intention of stopping.

Just today, considering the overall situation, the German government finally agreed to make a small concession and lowered the bank interest rate by 0.5 percentage points, trying to release water to the market and ease the pressure on other allies in the international currency market.

However, such slight concessions do not help the overall situation.