If it'll stay exclusive here, those nonmembers will find another source. The word exclusive doesn't exist on the Internet.

I've never seen leaked blog posts/blog videos of P.T.A (Perfume's fanclub) despite usually EVERYTHING getting posted on tumblr so... I do think it's possible if everyone plays by the rules but on here I don't see that happening but as long as everyone is fine with it I'm fine with it too then I'm not complaining that members are willing to share

Japanese fans are very strict. Usually we get leaks and rips from chinese fans or others.

^ Thank you chinese fans, you're the real MVP.

Exactly. "turbo" (T.M.Revolution's fanclub) consists almost in its entirety of Japanese members, therefore, it is nearly impossible to get leaks from it. Actually, an FC exclusive live album was released recently and there are no online leaks whatsoever, I really wanna listen to it lol

TeamAyu, on the other hand, even before going global had a considerable percentage of international members, so it's wasn't weird to find news, pictures, TA entries and whatnot online. Now that it's global, even more so.

Maybe this is a much smaller community so you'd pretty much know who is leaking them, rather than by random Chinese fans from across the ocean? And I'm not being elitist, but when you're paying $$ for a service and you see other people don't pay for it and they get the same thing it's a bit frustrating. Especially when they've (TA) made it SO easy to join for international members, AND they've lowered the membership price. It's less than $40 for a whole year, that's less than what you for pay for to get an album shipped by CDJ. There are other Japanese artist online fanclubs I'd love to join but its very difficult to figure it all out without being fluent/living in Japan.

I was originally gonna join the international TA but then I backed out.
What are the benefits of joining?

I don't mind TA stuff being shared on here. I am a member and I really don't mind sharing the news nor contents. As Koumori said, many might not be as lucky to be able to join for whatever reason.

The main reason I joined both times was to get tickets to shows. The first time was successful, the second was not. Then there's her personal entries and being able to shop from TA shop, which I used to purchase the TA version of Zutto single. I guess it depends if you feel those kinds of things are worth it for yourself or not. I like having the option if I want to purchase from TA shop or not (perfect example, I dislike the goods that were offered with the new album + live DVD so I didn't care to order from TA and went to CDJ instead).

By the way I'm not arguing with anyone, just stating my opinion for the discussion. I think my viewpoint is as valid as the next person's, right? :)

Mostly I just wish the TA downloads and benefits from before about 2006 were still available anywhere.

Years of wallpapers and screen savers are lost forever for the most part, which is irritating. If more people had shared things back then, well... lol

When TeamAyu's offline component was just part of the membership, it honestly didn't bug me too much... Kinda, but not really. Now the club is basically just online and all the offline stuff will have to be purchased so the sharing of digital things is more problematic for me.

Are there screensavers before MY STORY? That is the 1st screensaver on the list. Maybe there just wasn't any before that?

I definitely had an AT2003~2004 screensaver at one point and I don't see it on the list in the TA archive.

i joined to TA because i wanted to buy TA versions of CDs but i'm not collecting her stuff anymore so it's kinda pointless for me to be a member anymore. i don't even remember to go read her diary entries :no

she doesn't share that much on TA imo. she shares same things on twitter or in her facebook account

she really looks so young lately...like in her 25s...she doesn't look 36 at all

There have at least been screensavers for A BEST, I am..., ayu-mi-x 4, Voyage, No way to say, and ARENA TOUR 2003-2004 that I know of. On the A BEST screensaver download page on the TeamAyu preview, it said "Ayumi Hamasaki Screensaver version 4.0" which probably means there were screensavers for three other releases before that.

EDIT: Just did some digging... there were screensavers for A BALLADS and H as well.

There were also wallpapers from the A BEST commercial shoot (at least one of those photos was used in beatfreak magazine for their A BEST feature). There was an official wallpaper of Ayu's santa-outfit photo from 2001.

There are also a bunch of behind-the-scenes photo galleries and Today's Photos that aren't on the site anymore.

Ayu just tweeted about Anything For You. Can anyone translate? Curious x