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myOtaku.com: CosmicSailor
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Saturday, May 28, 2005
Toxic Nonsense
 | I have been commenting on the lack of Japanese Pop music on the legal Digital Music Services (iTunes Music Store, Napster, MusicNow, Musicmatch, RealRhapsody, and a whole list of others) for some time now. I will continue to bring it up as a public service to all fans of the genre until our efforts begin to see recognition. In my communications with Bandai several weeks ago on the subject, I was informed that I am not the only person asking around and trying to get Japanese Pop music featured by those services. The only way we as anime and Japanese Pop music fans will be taken seriously is if we get together and come up with some kind of plan to show those Digital Music Services that we aren't just freaky Otaku hacks trying to make trouble. It is as simple as enough people contacting those services and said "We want Japanese Pop music." They'll have to listen eventually, or risk getting the reputation that they don't even try to honor requests for music. I have turned people away from Napster specifically for that very reason. I point out Napster because I have tried to use it before, and the ads for Napster that show up here and on theotaku.com annoy me to no end.
I did start a new round of discussions with Napster recently, but they have not yet replied to my page long e-mail on why I'm thinking their staff is lazy and discriminating against the Japanese Pop genre. I also sent them contact information for quite a few resources on the matter, including licensed distributers here in the US(they can provide information on original publishers, and who to contact to acquire licenses to carry the music in the digital medium), Japanese record labels, and other sources that might be of use to them. If I hear from them at all besides a form generated autoresponse e-mail(which I already got), I'll be impressed. Next week, I will begin to start from the other end, contacting Japanese record labels, the U.S. Distributers, and the other sources myself. If I can't get something done from this end, I'll go to the source and try to get something going from that end. I encourage anyone who uses Napster, iTunes Music Store, or any of the Digital Music Services to start requesting Japanese Pop music. Request a lot, and request it often, that will get someone's attention.
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