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Being in Japan

Being in Japan

I am currently stationed in Japan. However I am currently on U.S. soil and U.S. territory. I know this bucuase I was able to use Spotify with very little to no problem for at least serveral months. Then one day I was randomly told I cannot use Spotify due to the country I am in. I understand that I am in Japan, however I still am on United States territory. I should be able to use Spotify for free right?

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Hey! Welcome to the community 🙂 

 

As far as I am aware, Spotify is not available in overseas territories due to licensing restrictions (although they have removed the FAQ link I have bookmarked).

I'm not really sure why your access has been cut now though, has your internet provider changed recently? If you where using a VPN which gave you an IP address in the USA, then Spotify wouldn't have known you where outside the USA mainland. 

 

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Andret_cello - It looks like you're connecting from Japan at the moment, which would explain why you're having trouble.

If you were to connect from a US VPN or proxy, you should get your Spotify back.
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To my understanding nothing as changed. I will contact my ISP. However even if I am United States terrirtoy, I cannot use Spotify?

Spotify doesn't care in which territory you are, just which IP address you have atm.

As it looks like it's a Japanese, so you are officially located in Japan for Spotify.

 

As hammeh suggested you have to use VPN to get an American IP address or sign up for premium account to be able to stream overseas.

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