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> Unless something is completely unavailable elsewhere I do run into this from time to time. Let's say I want the soundtrack to one of my favourite anime, from
by Macha 5y ago
> Unless something is completely unavailable elsewhere
I do run into this from time to time. Let's say I want the soundtrack to one of my favourite anime, from 2006.
Some items from it are also on the source game soundtrack, so are available on iTunes. This is actually kind of rare for older anime which usually don't bother releasing in iTunes outside Japan, but being a game adaptation helps it here, I guess. Still, anything composed for the anime are not included.
Some of it is there on Spotify. Actually, at one point it all was, and I can still see the tracks are there but grayed out in other people's playlists, so I assume there exists some region in which it was available, and the availability in my region initially was a mistake by a licensee who forgot to limit it to the regions they had rights for. Either way, it's no longer legally available for me.
So I could.... VPN to Japanese iTunes, thereby breaking the terms of service, (assuming it's still there) or I could try import some decade old special edition DVDs of the anime which contained the OST.
Or I could rip it from YouTube. Eventually, if you make no effort to sell to me, I'm going to resort to other options.
- input_sh 5y ago> So I could.... VPN to Japanese iTunes, thereby breaking the terms of service... In my experience, you'd immediately enter "vacation mode", which is limited to two weeks in free version, but unlimited in premium. Spotify doesn't even complain when you switch countries in a couple of seconds. They're very lenient on enforcement, I've used it for like five years before Spotify actually became available in my country (though I couldn't pay for the premium with a card from a different country). Just log in via VPN once, then it works for two weeks.