{"id":283,"date":"2008-04-29T13:49:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T04:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/karaoke-country-fenced-out-from-myspace-karaoke\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T04:49:35","slug":"karaoke-country-fenced-out-from-myspace-karaoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/karaoke-country-fenced-out-from-myspace-karaoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Karaoke country fenced out from MySpace Karaoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s launched MySpace new feature, <a href=\"http:\/\/ksolo.myspace.com\/\">MySpace Karaoke<\/a>, seems inaccessible from Japan, as you know, the birthplace of karaoke.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/29\/karaoke-country-fenced-out-from-myspace-karaoke\/myspace-karaoke-is-not-accessible-from-japan\/' rel='attachment wp-att-282' title='MySpace Karaoke is not accessible from Japan'><img src='http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/myspace-karaoke-in-japan.thumbnail.png' alt='MySpace Karaoke is not accessible from Japan' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We apologize, but this content is not licensed in your region, and therefore, cannot be played.<br \/>\nWe are working on launching international sites soon so please be sure to check back with us.<br \/>\nSing your heart out!<br \/>\nMySpace Karaoke team\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, not a big deal, actually.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jp.myspace.com\/\">MySpace Japan<\/a> exists so they may have different service plan, as the blocking page implies.<\/li>\n<li>MySpace is not popular in Japan, anyway. Mighty <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/mixi\/\">Mixi<\/a> might be thinking similar service<\/li>\n<li>music copyright processing tends to be restricted by country border (sigh)<\/li>\n<li>No Japanese songs, I assume (cannot check from here!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Japanese internet, there are several paid internet-karaoke services (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.music-eclub.com\/pasokara\/\">Paso kara hodai<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clubdam.com\/dam\/karaokeAtDam\/index.do\">karaoke@dam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/music.casio.co.jp\/karaoke\/\">Internet Songbank<\/a>, etc.), but they are not &#8220;social&#8221; services but just audio (without vocal) download services.<br \/>\nAnother example of regional restriction, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\/\">Pandora<\/a>, the popular internet radio, is not <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2007\/10\/04\/pandora-international-2\/\">usable from Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s launched MySpace new feature, MySpace Karaoke, seems inaccessible from Japan, as you know, the birthplace of karaoke. We apologize, but this content is not licensed in your region, and therefore, cannot be played. We are working on launching international sites soon so please be sure to check back with us. Sing your heart out!&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/karaoke-country-fenced-out-from-myspace-karaoke\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Karaoke country fenced out from MySpace Karaoke<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[98,768,2493,3088],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-access-restriction","tag-country","tag-myspace","tag-region","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}