Just as Pei Qian was about to hang up, he heard Qiao Liang ask: “Mr. Pei, I have one more question.”

“If Rabbit Tail Live wants to counter-attack, can we take some necessary measures?”

“For instance… prohibit these two platforms from streaming our games, including GOG, IOI, and Sea Fortress, among others?”

“Of course, I know this would be a decision where both sides suffer losses, but by any calculation, they would suffer more.”

“If they really keep pushing, could we use this as a last resort?”

“Or, we could use this to deter them. Even if we don’t actually go through with it, it could still have some effect.”

It was evident that Qiao Liang harbored significant resentment toward YY Live and Wolf Fang Live for secretly poaching Rabbit Tail’s streamers.

What right did they have?

These two platforms could poach Rabbit Tail’s streamers, but Rabbit Tail couldn’t poach from them because these two platforms’ contracts with streamers specified high penalty fees. Rabbit Tail couldn’t possibly help streamers pay those high penalties.

Meanwhile, since Rabbit Tail didn’t have penalty clauses, Wolf Fang Live and YY Live poached enthusiastically, especially targeting new streamers who had just started to gain recognition.

This was clearly somewhat unreasonable.

Actually, was Rabbit Tail’s compensation much worse than these two platforms? Not really.

But when it came to poaching, it wasn’t about actual compensation; it often relied on deception.

The poachers always held the initiative.

Rabbit Tail offered solid compensation to streamers, but Wolf Fang Live and YY Live could target specific individuals with many tricks when poaching.

For example, they might initially offer a very high figure, but simultaneously stipulate high penalty fees. To get that figure, streamers would need to achieve certain popularity and gift requirements; otherwise, money would be deducted.

When poaching streamers, they showed them an extremely tempting number, but whether they could actually get it in the end was another story.

If streamers continued to be popular or became even more popular after jumping ship, they would certainly have more bargaining power when renewing contracts.

But what if their popularity declined after jumping ship? The contract probably contained various previously overlooked clauses that would take back what the platform had initially offered the streamer.

If streamers regretted their decision and wanted to leave, they would be stuck with huge penalty fees and couldn’t leave.

Were the streamers really unable to see contract issues? Earning so much money with such significant contracts, shouldn’t they, despite potential legal blindness, spend money to have professionals review them?

It wasn’t that none did, but most streamers had low education levels and weak legal awareness. How could everyone be so shrewd and never be deceived?

When YY Live and Wolf Fang Live came to poach Rabbit Tail’s streamers, they certainly painted a rosy picture. These new streamers who were being poached might not have much worldly experience and could easily be tricked.

Moreover, live streaming was still an emerging industry where lawsuits involving sky-high penalty fees hadn’t yet surfaced. Streamers were still naively thinking that the big bosses behind live streaming platforms were either rich fools or honest people without any tricks. It was reasonable that they lacked this awareness.

Qiao Liang was now the acting head of Rabbit Tail Live, as well as a content creator and streamer.

As a streamer, he strongly disapproved of Wolf Fang Live and YY Live’s behavior.

Weren’t they taking advantage of honest people?

Not binding streamers with high penalty fees was Rabbit Tail’s best practice, but this actually became the reason for others to poach recklessly.

So, Qiao Liang was very unhappy and came up with this countermeasure.

If they continued poaching Rabbit Tail’s streamers and causing trouble, then Tenda’s games would be off-limits to them in the future! He wanted to see what these live streaming platforms would broadcast in their gaming sections once they lost GOG, IOI, and Sea Fortress—half their content would collapse!

Legally speaking, Tenda had every right to do this.

Tenda owned the copyright to their designed games and could decide who was authorized to stream them. If Tenda didn’t authorize these two platforms, they couldn’t stream them; otherwise, they’d be successfully sued.

Of course, logically speaking, if Tenda really did this, it might not necessarily be profitable, because YY Live and Wolf Fang Live already held absolute dominant positions in the live streaming industry. If relations were completely severed, the popularity of Tenda’s games would also significantly decrease.

But no matter what, Tenda would definitely not be the biggest loser.

And it didn’t have to be a complete ban—this could be a deterrent without actually being used.

Just issuing a warning to these two platforms and declaring the possibility of banning GOG and other games would make them exercise restraint.

They would carefully weigh whether the benefits and promises provided by the Anti-Tenda Alliance were enough to withstand the losses of a complete break with Tenda.

Achieving this would be sufficient.

As the acting head of Rabbit Tail Live, Qiao Liang felt it necessary to deeply consider these issues and report them to Mr. Pei.

Pei Qian fell silent.

If they really did this, it would be a major problem!

Competition in the live streaming industry would continue for a long time, and Pei Qian still wanted to happily burn money through this opportunity.

If they followed Qiao Liang’s suggestion, wouldn’t that super-accelerate the competition process?

Obviously, the earlier both sides broke off, the greater the possibility of Rabbit Tail Live taking off. Because in the live streaming industry, content was key, and games were one of the most important forms of content.

If there must be a breakup, shouldn’t it happen after this cycle ended?

What did it matter if Wolf Fang Live and YY Live poached a few streamers from Rabbit Tail now? No one was really losing much. Streamers got high salaries, YY Live and Wolf Fang Live spent money but got the people they wanted, and Rabbit Tail’s popularity took a hit, making Pei Qian feel more secure when burning money.

Wasn’t that pretty good?

So, Pei Qian decided to appease him a bit.

The Anti-Tenda Alliance had already lost so badly; if he didn’t give them some sweetness, the entire alliance might immediately fall apart.

He needed to stall them, to make them continue playing this money-burning game with him.

Of course, he couldn’t say this to Qiao Liang; he needed a different explanation.

After considering for a moment, Pei Qian said: “I think this approach is inappropriate.”

“Although legally speaking, we own the copyright to all Tenda games and could completely prohibit these streaming platforms from broadcasting them. But… that would be somewhat dishonorable, making it seem like we can’t compete face-to-face and have to resort to such means outside the rules.”

“Others would definitely point at us and say, ‘Look, look, Tenda is getting desperate.'”

“This doesn’t align with our principles all along.”

“At Tenda, we believe in fair competition, winning against opponents through our true abilities. We can’t flip the table when we can’t win within the rules—that shows no class.”

“As I said before, to forge iron, one must be strong. If competitors are poaching our streamers, it might be because we’re not treating them well enough, so we should improve that.”

“If you believe that Wolf Fang Live and YY Live aren’t as good as us in any aspect, then why are streamers still being poached? There must be areas where we’re falling short.”

“So, not only should we not use this to threaten them, we should be upfront and make it clear: Tenda will never use such means!”

“This should be clarified as early as possible.”

“If they like to poach people, let them poach. When the day comes that they can’t poach anymore, that will be the day Rabbit Tail unifies the live streaming circle!”

Qiao Liang was stunned: “Be upfront and make it clear that we won’t use such means?”

“This… isn’t that unnecessary? Not even keeping it as a final deterrent?”

Mr. Pei’s approach was not only to avoid using the game broadcast ban as a deterrent but to actively abandon this approach and promise never to use it!

Wasn’t this equivalent to encouraging the two platforms to continue poaching—even more aggressively?

In Qiao Liang’s view, apart from Tenda games, Rabbit Tail Live had no other stronger cards to play.

Improving streamer benefits was certainly not a problem, but…

First, live streaming platforms were still a money-burning game, with major capital behind Wolf Fang Live and YY Live—they weren’t afraid to burn money and would spare no expense when poaching. Although Mr. Pei provided subsidies to Rabbit Tail through Tenda headquarters, they were ultimately restrained, with less funding than the two platforms.

Second, Rabbit Tail was passively defending, while the two platforms were actively attacking. How could that be the same? If Rabbit Tail wanted to increase benefits, it would have to do so for all streamers on the platform. In contrast, Wolf Fang Live and YY Live only needed to offer high prices to a few select streamers.

It was like putting on an extra layer of clothing every time someone cuts you.

How many layers would you need to ensure the next cut doesn’t harm you?

If these words hadn’t come from Mr. Pei, Qiao Liang would have cursed.

But since Mr. Pei said it, he decided to ponder it further, wondering if the problem might be with himself.

Perhaps Mr. Pei had a new perspective?

“Alright, Mr. Pei, I understand.”

Qiao Liang hung up and seriously considered what Mr. Pei had said earlier.

It seemed to make some sense, but it didn’t feel particularly reliable.

“Oh well, let’s just let it take its course.”

“Hu Xianbin already told me that when facing uncertain issues, I should ask Mr. Pei. Even if I don’t get a satisfactory answer, I should note what he says, as it might prove useful in the future.”

“I should focus on properly organizing this weekend’s car race. As for Wolf Fang Live and YY Live’s continuous poaching, that requires long-term planning, taking it slow.”

“This kind of thing can’t be rushed. Making hasty statements might disrupt Mr. Pei’s overall plan.”

“Hmm… first organize the race, then establish a new benefit plan for Rabbit Tail Live.”

Instead of continuing to overthink, Qiao Liang arranged everything according to Mr. Pei’s requirements.