Kronekodow announces SR/TJ PVs uploaded to youtube officially (Japan only for now?)
 

http://www.kronekodow.com/news/news_0.html

http://www.youtube.com/user/ringosheenaofficial
http://www.youtube.com/user/incidentstokyoch

Not available in the US right now :( but there's something in the news item (per Google translate) about "the person or foreign, some people in the future as well", so maybe that's coming later.

Glad to see them joining the 2010s finally. Seems like the PVs for most of the main singles are up.

Very nice. Hopefully they become international at some point so us pesky baka gaijins can see them.

Reporting myself from Argentina, I'm allowed to see the videos. God bless the third world.

All work in Australia too

Italy here. Most of them work, some don't - newer ones on Ringo's, Dai-hakken era's on TJ's channel.

lol welcome to 2008 I guess. I'm watching OSCA right now and the quality is poor, unfortunately.

I wonder why they blocked US and not other countries.

Honnou and Stem are available now in the US, no others yet.

Same for France :)

Obviously EMI assumes that her American fanbase has full ISO rips of all the DVDs anyway, based upon their extensive monitoring of EMF.

^
The United States (where EMF and an absurd amount of SR/TJ dotCOM registrations are based) is merely the catalyst for a broader international fanbase. It's not as if being a US resident/citizen, means you have more underground access than somebody from Europe or South America.

I realize you're probably being at least somewhat sarcastic, but that wouldn't necessarily mean you are entirely off-base about the way EMI Japan or Kronekodow Ltd perceives the United States. Oh well.

^Yes; to clarify, that post was 100% tongue-in-cheek. :D

So I finally actually looked at this. Gotta say, nothing I like better with my eclectic Japanese music than splash banners for One Direction and unskippable, two-minute trailers for the latest Seth Rogan vehicle. :/

just adblock. I mean, seriously, why do people even tolerate it? Chrome and Firefox both easily support it.

This still doesn't work in Canada : (

I don't understand why so many Japanese music corporations decide that only Japan should be able view promotional materials. YouTube is a very big offender when it comes to official videos being blocked by country or region. It's so bizarre to me that it's like this especially now that we live in the day where anyone can purchase music online through a variety of methods. Limiting potential viewers to those in Japan just limits the range in which people become fans. Sure, not everyone from every foreign country is going to understand Shiina Ringo. But why block her from those who might love her?

I find that Japanese companies tend to be at least 5 years behind when it comes to new technology and social media, some of them still think it's the 70s and they can control every aspect of how their product is represented and distributed. And that's why they add weird unnecessary limits, they want the same kind of control they had way back when there was no internet.

Can anyone recommend a good VPN service with Japanese servers?

The whole blocking of videos thing is one of the reasons I'm interested on one.

I use https://www.hidemyass.com/proxy-list/search-225413
if I want to just watch the videos and I just pick a Japanese ip address. But it's pretty sluggish using an alt ip address so I just download the videos with http://www.clipconverter.cc/

Thanks for the info!