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Originally Posted by kumis
If this is supposed to do what I think it's supposed to do, then this should be a really good thing
I find it ridiculous that it took copyright holders (in this case, record labels) this much time to realize that the only way to reduce piracy is by getting rid of the stupid, outdated decentralized record label model. By that I mean medias should be solely owned by one copyright holder instead of how it is now (i.e. look at how famous Western artists have their albums released at different times and owned by different labels/distributors). The model as it is now makes for limitations for people in certain countries, which leads them to piracy because they have no other option. If, now, all albums and singles are supposed to be released on the same day, then that will reduce the number of people pirating music because they weren't able to buy it on iTunes in their country and that's a good thing
But for Japan I don't see this as much of an improvement. I mean, companies like SME and Avex are already so protectionist that you can pretty much only buy their music in Japan so it makes no difference honestly. Oricon needs to alter their model as well but that's nothing new
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I agree with that point. Most of the Japanese music releases that are released domestically rarely extends beyond Japanese shores, such as coming to the other side of the Pacific (USA and Canada) or Eurasia (Europe) (save for Utada Hikaru, Dir en grey, etc.)...so, yeah. I'm not sure if Japanese labels think this Saturday release move is even necessary.