Yesterday evening, the # Pandownload # keyword was popularly searched, and the developer of Pandownload was arrested by the police because of it.
What is Pandownload? Why did the police arrest it? Why can it cause such a sensation on the Internet ...? This article will introduce you one by one.
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Speaking from Baidu network disk
On August 12, 2013, Kingsoft Express offered permanently free 100G cloud space as a fuse, and the network disk war officially began. Finally, Baidu, Jinshan, Tencent, NetEase, 360, 115 and other major Internet companies have killed you.
Time has passed in the past 7 years, Baidu SkyDrive has a better user experience and strong financial support, and has ruined all competitors, because this is really a money-burning business.
What is certain is that Baidu SkyDrive is still not profitable, but when there is only one big player left in the market, their main goal will be on how to make profit.
In recent years, Baidu SkyDrive has made many attempts, such as opening third-party services, providing cloud photo printing services, and paying to watch video content. However, its main income is membership.
If you do not purchase a Baidu member, you will be limited in speed when uploading and downloading using Baidu network disk. In addition, after becoming a member, you can enjoy more functions, such as greater space capacity, online decompression, high-speed online playback and other permissions .
Of course, if you can use it without purchasing a member, it is very slow to use. In response to the painful point of slow downloading, a programmer found a vulnerability in Baidu's network disk and developed a network disk download assistant.
This network disk download assistant is Pandownload.
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What is Pandownload?
Baidu network disk has a large number of users. Once the free accelerated network disk assistant was developed, it quickly became popular in the Internet software industry. The majority of Internet users have used this software.
Pandownload adopts Aria 2 technology, supports offline download, new download, extract download link, customize Aria2 configuration, and customize sharing password.
The principle is similar to oil monkey script + IDM , the software calls Aria2 to download after obtaining the straight chain , and logs in the network disk account to obtain its own network disk resource download.
After years of continuous update and optimization, Pandownload is recognized as the most powerful, best-used and most effective third-party Baidu network disk download client.
From the official website of view Pandownload Last updated: 2020-01-24, version v2.2.2. Of course, the official website and software are currently out of service.
How many users are using this software, we can understand through its official website ranking, through alexa query its official website ranking, even in China can be ranked 6152.
This means that nearly 10,000 users browse their official website every day to download software, but in fact more downloads are distributed in various channels on the Internet, and they are not counted, which shows their influence.
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Only earn 300,000!
According to the content of the official Weibo notification of Weibo @ 扬州 网 警 巡 治:
During the period, the developer rented the web server for update and maintenance and released the donation collection code. At the same time, the QQ group was established, and the group entrance fee was charged from 1 to 10 yuan. Test version.
Up to now, the developers have only made 300,000 yuan in profits.
You may not understand how difficult it is to develop such a software, and there are still huge policy risks. It is really not easy for a person to persist for so many years.
The software developed by the author itself is free for everyone to use. In order to maintain basic server expenses and operating expenses, these incomes are actually very restrained.
If he is willing, it is not impossible to add two zeros to this number. With his technical strength, the annual salary in the first-tier cities is basically 600,000.
So if the author develops software just to make money, his income should not be so much, there must be a certain spirit of sharing.
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Quickly caused online hot discussion
After the news that the Pandownload developer was caught appeared, it quickly fermented on Weibo. Yesterday, we directly searched the top 5 on Weibo, and there are still many users on the social networking site.
Baidu SkyDrive also responded to this incident.
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Thinking behind the event
After the Pandownload developer was caught, there was a quick discussion on the Internet. Let's take a look at some thoughts behind this matter.
1) Baidu SkyDrive doesn't have any points?
Since 2017, this software has continued to grow. I believe that Baidu SkyDrive itself must know the existence of this software.
Why is the membership setting of Baidu SkyDrive not useful? Are the charging standards equal to the rights enjoyed by the members? Whether these issues are really considered by the government.
2) Wide use of software users
I have seen Pandownload's claimed materials on multiple platforms, all of which are free and spontaneous for everyone to promote, and indeed help a lot of people.
At the same time, the author announced that Pandownload software is permanently free, but only made some appropriate donations and fees for community management and internal beta stable version.
Judging from the comparison between these fees and the developer's efforts, they are very conscience.
3) Such software is extensive
In fact, there is more than Pandownload, there are many and many cracked third-party software on the entire Internet, such as cracking gadgets of major video websites.
Some cracked gadgets for paid software, and even many resource sites dedicated to downloading cracked software, are still active at the forefront of traffic.
After the Pandownload developers were caught, other developers who developed similar software were also in danger.
4) Unclear legal issues
-Use multi-thread downloaders such as aria2 and idm to download network disk resources, breaking the speed limit of network disks. Are aria2 and idm illegal?
-"The number of users reaches tens of thousands, causing Baidu to lose up to tens of millions of yuan." Is the calculation of the case value reasonable?
-Donations and payment plus groups are forcibly counted as illegal profits
The above points are controversial. Not long after the announcement, the Yangzhou Internet police deleted the Weibo that was posted yesterday.
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At last
First of all, it is certain that Pandownload is cool. Everyone can no longer use this software in the future. We are more concerned about the follow-up processing of Pandownload authors.
"Illegal acquisition of benefits of more than 300,000 yuan has caused tens of millions of losses, and the situation is particularly serious."
If the sentence is really measured according to the above, it is very unfavorable to Pandownload developers. I will continue to pay attention to the progress of this incident. If the author needs legal resources, I will help provide it.
At the same time, we also need to note that as the country continues to crack down on intellectual property rights and ash production, many things that previously wandered in the middle ground cannot be done now.
From last year to now, some technicians have been caught because of reptiles, and some have been caught because of P2P \ cash loans, and programmers have gradually become a high-risk occupation.
When choosing a career or cooperating in software development, you need to be vigilant. It is best to consult a professional lawyer for some unfamiliar areas and give them reasonable advice.
What needs to be stated is:
We are not indulging a criminal on the whole network, we just want a more open and transparent trial.
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