Chapter 2328: Someone Was Hacking the Site
A technician told An Xuchen to buy a new server. They suspected it was a server problem.
An Xuchen felt his liver ache after hearing that. A server could easily cost tens of thousands. A better one could cost around a hundred thousand, and there were still even more expensive ones.
An Xuchen couldn’t bear to buy it and had someone come to check the server for problems.
The maintenance technician came over and looked, then said that it was perfectly fine. If there was a problem with the site, it was probably because someone was hacking the site.
An Xuchen had absolutely no clue why a hacker would attack his website.
Afterwards, An Xuchen got a professional hacker to come over and take a look. When Ning Shu saw that the other party was making a move, she immediately cut off her connection, lest the other party track her down.
It seemed An Xuchen had finally caught on.
Despite this, Ning Shu had a backup plan. An Xuchen’s website hadn’t acquired the rights to any of the movies and TV shows.
Thus, An Xuchen was infringing copyrights.
Ning Shu compiled a list and then emailed the relevant producers. If the other party took it seriously, they would definitely ask An Xuchen to take it down, or they would have to work out a contract for the mutual benefit of both parties.
Either that or he would have to buy the broadcast rights.
It was plenty to give An Xuchen a hard time.
After An Xuchen hired a hacker to clean up some abnormal code, the site’s speed immediately became a lot faster.
But the crazy lag a while back had driven away a lot of users, so this site still didn’t have a lot of users.
There were quite a lot of video websites for them to choose from. An Xuchen’s website was now a platform that had lost basically all its users and had a very poor reputation.
An Xuchen helplessly scratched at his hair. As a result, quite a lot of hair was scratched off his head.
An Xuchen couldn’t help but to touch his forehead. Even his hairline had shifted upwards quite a bit. If he continued on like this, he would really end up bald from worry.
An Xuchen felt miserable. He wanted to give up. However, he changed his mind when he thought of all the money he had invested, and the house, which was still mortgaged.
An Xuchen gritted his teeth and marched on.
An Xuchen thought that it would all be fine. He thought that, soon, he’d see the light at the end of the tunnel. He didn’t expect that things were only going to get much, much worse.
Some film and TV companies demanded that his site take down their work or they would have to go to court. He had to either buy the rights or sign a contract.
However, An Xuchen had already poured all his money into the website. Where would he get the money to buy the rights from? He had no choice but to remove those movies and TV shows from his website.
There weren’t many users on the website already. Now that many things suddenly became unwatchable, and the website ended up being even more deserted.
There was nothing profitable about the website. Moreover, An Xuchen had to pay his staff’s salaries, and these technical staff’s salaries were quite high.
It made An Xuchen really want to die.
Eventually, An Xuchen decided to just get a new site domain, and start over from there.
After all, he already got the server and the staff. If he could just get a new domain name, he could start a new website.
After a busy month, An Xuchen finally finished making the new website. He then called Yan Suni to help and do a live stream to boost the site’s popularity.
Speaking of which, An Xuchen felt like he hadn’t seen Yan Suni in ages.
An Xuchen was ready to clean himself up a bit and go meet Yan Suni.
An Xuchen asked Yan Suni out on the phone, and Yan Suni reluctantly agreed.
The two met in a western restaurant, and when Yan Suni saw An Xuchen, she blurted out, “How did you become like this?”
An Xuchen indeed looked haggard. He even had crow’s feet now. After all, An Xuchen was already almost forty years old. He also used to live like a prince and was in a pretty high management position in his old company.
However, in recent times, An Xuchen had suffered a lot and was under a lot of psychological pressure. It was taking its toll on his body.
MTL Editor: Ran
Translator: Kaho
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