Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

Pffft, this is fair use

I know "fair use" gets bandied about quite frequently on youtube uploads, but offering full verbatim downloads of any work is highly unlikely to be considered fair use if a court were to rule on it. The only reason such sites are still up is that the rights holders don't care enough to sue.

Yes, and this is also the real tragedy of automated copyright enforcement. All the funny grey area uses get marginalized.

not the same under Japanese's copyright law.

You should figure out who owns the copyright and report this infringement.

Someone in Japan will surely be indignant about the all the lost revenue from people who are not buying a CD full of train station jingles.

We need adverse possession ("squatter's rights") for intellectual property.

I'm surprised copyright trolls are not buying IP from defunct game/film/music companies and suing youtubers left and right for uploading video game music and anime OSTs.

If I were a sociopath and didn't care how I make my money, I draft some legit-looking legal threat letter template demanding $10,000 to avoid a civil lawsuit worth millions, fill in the blanks with a name, IP address, and title of pirated content, then mail out the letters by the tens of thousands using USPS-subsidized cheap mail.

If you mail out about 20k of these threats, you only need 3 of them to pay up to come out on top.