Thunder offensive members for the listing disgusted

"This resource has been reported, can not be added to the offline download ..." Xiaokui reluctantly switch off Thunder, "can my annual fee refund me!" For several months, her off-line download and high-speed download function repeatedly unable to use , Use Thunder download movies, only 20K per second, almost equivalent to the original one-twentieth. Xiaokui said that he only renewed in March for a year of Thunder Platinum members, membership functions nowhere, 150 yuan wasted.

Member functions into the layout of the user cited dissatisfaction

"Thunder since the listing, it changed a face.Members offline function is limited, can only rely on ordinary download, and the speed is huge, only tens of K (per second)."

"What is the use of Thunder members now? Watch movies can not download bad, I will not renew anyway."

"My speed is controlled at about 10K, Thunder in the end you want?"

June 24, Thunder successfully landed on NASDAQ. However, for the majority of users, the listing or not with their immediate interest has nothing to do, but Thunder shield download resources, slow down the download speed, but let the users paid for membership of their anger. Recently, "IT Times" reporter login Thunder forums and Baidu Thunder posted it, the page is almost entirely for download speed limit Tucao.

Shielding illegal resources, it is Thunder listed before the "last blow." In 2008, the Motion Picture Association of America filed a lawsuit against Thunder and filed a lawsuit against Thunder for claiming seven million yuan in point-to-point downloads of "Spider-Man 3" and "World War" movies. In 2011, Thunder's first listing failed, but also with its hard on copyright issues inseparable. Today, Thunder seems determined to dump the world, reached an agreement with the American Film Association, claimed to be through a content recognition technology system to ensure that members of the Association of copyright works, will not be unauthorized users to download, in order to enhance the network movie And the legitimacy of television shows.

"Suspension of membership" into a compromise

As a result, a large number of film and television works are affected the download. For Thunder, this is tantamount to "Warrior broken wrist." Thunder from the latest earnings report, subscription revenue has become the most important source of revenue Thunder, this part of the income as high as 24.84 million US dollars, accounting for 60% of total revenue. The subscription revenue comes from members' subscription-paid digital media content delivery cloud acceleration service, which includes functions such as green channel, offline accelerator and cloud playback. Membership fees range from $ 10 to $ 30 per member level.

Since last year, Thunder began to "downsize" a large number of pornographic and pirated video resources were cleared, and Thunder and the Motion Picture Association reached an anti-piracy agreement, accelerate the download of resources is diminishing. Many netizens said that as a result their own Thunder members function is equivalent to tasteless, not worth the renewal.

For Thunder now mainly rely on membership fees to make money, this may mean no small loss.

On the other hand, advertising revenue, once the most important revenue for Thunder, is shrinking year by year. If the subscription revenue also shrinks, the prospects for the newly listed Thunder is not optimistic. In response, Lawyer You Yunting at DaBang Law Firm of Shanghai believes that after the listing, the company's operation is more transparent. Thunder's move has avoided the risk for itself and is conducive to the healthy development in the future. Theoretically speaking, it is a good thing. However, how to properly handle the relationship with the users and maintain the existing traffic may be a difficult problem for them.

Recently, Thunder launched a "suspend membership" function, if for some time does not require Thunder Member Services, you can freeze it, the duration of membership is no longer calculated during the suspension, re-use it as long as you can re-use. This feature can be used three times a year, insiders speculation, "Now the resources have been blocked, fear of loss of the majority of members of the interests of the Thunder had this feature to open up here, is not to tell you a few days?