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NEWS: Chernin Group Purchases Majority Stake in Crunchyroll

Micro_Ice wrote:

I hope by expanding they'll add a digital music store, for full anime OPs/EDs/OST and the like.

I don't know if that will happen, Japan will not allow majority of J-pop on Itunes as Answerman said. Japan doesn't really embrace the internet unlike Taiwan and South Korea does. That's why it's hard to find J-pop on Itunes and on Youtube.

I just hope they don't taint the website with some other shit than anime

That was not what I meant by bad.

I have been also reading the news of the investor in other sections of news not just anime or entertainment related. This same investor wanted to buy Hulu as well.

Its from hints you get while reading about how the investor behaves with purchased systems.

mdo7 wrote:

Micro_Ice wrote: I hope by expanding they'll add a digital music store, for full anime OPs/EDs/OST and the like. I don't know if that will happen, Japan will not allow majority of J-pop on Itunes as Answerman said. Japan doesn't really embrace the internet unlike Taiwan and South Korea does. That's why it's hard to find J-pop on Itunes and on Youtube.

There's a heck of a lot more J-Pop on iTunes Japan than there is over here (albeit last I was aware it was all still DRMd rather than iTunes+). There's an anime music category you can actually browse over there (try here and you just get redirected to the top of the store).

Silly me, when you said "Japan will not allow majority of J-pop on Itunes" and "Japan doesn't really embrace the internet" I thought you were talking about the Japanese iTunes store.

If Crunchyroll were to add a digital music store and if they were granted access to even half of what is available on iTunes Japan, it would still be an improvement over what we have now.

I thought that was the point of this little discussion.

Aaaaannndd we have another exquisite example of mdo7's muddy-headed thinking that would have you believe that all Japan is beholden to the desires of its media moguls, even as he simultaneously debunks it with his own links. Quick word of advice for you: stop using "Japan" to refer to everything and use more specific terms like "Japanese music industry" or "Japanese ISPs" or "Japanese government", etc, as appropriate; by ceasing to conflate these actors in your writing, you'll help yourself to stop mixing them up in your thinking.

So the Japanese embraced the mobile web, at the expense of the PC, to such a degree they didn't need Wifi hotspots until bandwidth became an issue. So some of the earliest hotspot services in the land of the rising sun have had privacy violations and security flaws. What the Sam hell does that have to do with piracy? Nothing! How is the Japanese music industry involved? It's not! Where's the connection to the changeophobia of said industry? There is none!

I did nothing but reiterate what the very articles you posted said.

I did nothing but reiterate what the very articles you posted said.

Yeah but Justin "Answerman" Servakis is still correct on the record label ignore the internet thing (that's why finding J-pop MVs is so hard on Youtube).

It's not only CR, Viki and Dramafever has difficult time getting J-dramas on their sites, I can find few J-dramas on those sites. I'm seeing more Taiwanese dramas being picked up for non-Asian audiences then J-dramas. I never understood why Japan never joined the drama craze when K-dramas got popular outside of Asia.