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Originally Posted by KarenPang
And yeah Sony Japan is so backwards in doing things it's not funny . SPYAIR's videos are already not region block anymore and they should do that for their other artistes under them , like SID , Mika , UVERworld , Hirai Ken & others +_+
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I do agree. SMEJ's 'protectionist' stance is atrocious. This is not healthy business - they're pretty much the largest label in Japan (aside from Avex), but unlike Avex, they're limiting its J-pop videos to Japan only when they don't realize we have foreign fans like us - and some artists do attract foreign fans such as YUI/FLOWER FLOWER and the Sakamichi groups! At least Nogizaka46 started not geoblocking for its newest videos, but it's still a problem with Keyakizaka46 as well.
(Sorry if I already said it before, but this isn't the only area Sony plays the 'walled garden' game: there's also the more well-known PS4 crossplay blocking with other consoles as well. And Vevo doesn't count as well - it's only a band-aid fix, not a 100% fix since, as what Karen said in another thread before, the video quality is sometimes not up to par, which was evident in the Vevo upload for Keyaki's 'Ambivalent' music video.)