I am not sure if this is best posted in the request section, since this is not exactly a request, but more like a discussion I guess.
Anyway, is anyone able to buy from EIC-Book recently? I used to be able to, but now they seem to have changed their credit card operator and it no longer accepts the cards I have. They used to be their own CC operator, but now the CC payment option takes you to some third party website that always denies the cards I use, and I have tried 3 different cards already. I am thinking that now you must have a japanese credit card in order to be able to buy from them. The funny thing is that I can still buy from EIC-AV, their sister website for adult content, as the payment system remains the same as the one that was used before with EIC-Book. This is really frustrating because I can no longer buy stuff that hasn't been released as DVD-rips yet, and it seems I can't even send them an e-mail about this for lack of actually finding any sort of direct contact with them.
The title I am mostly after right now is Kana Takasugi's Happy Heart, which has just been released in HD: http://www.eic-book.com/detail_28888.html
If anyone here was able to buy it, I could front the money. The problem here is that their files are protected with Microsoft's Windows Media Player DRM. I am also able to hack their files and strip out the DRM from them with "unDRM" (which requires a certain Windows XP setup), but, for that, I would have to have the user/password information of the account that buys it, which understandably I don't think people would be very willing to share.
My final question, then, would be: would anyone be able to offer some alternative on it, or work with me the way I mentioned? I guess a prepaid japanese credit card would work, but I don't even know if such a thing exists in there. Also, is EIC-Book the only digital retailers for Mare releases? They are the only one I know.
Thanks in advance for any ideas you might have.
Anyway, is anyone able to buy from EIC-Book recently? I used to be able to, but now they seem to have changed their credit card operator and it no longer accepts the cards I have. They used to be their own CC operator, but now the CC payment option takes you to some third party website that always denies the cards I use, and I have tried 3 different cards already. I am thinking that now you must have a japanese credit card in order to be able to buy from them. The funny thing is that I can still buy from EIC-AV, their sister website for adult content, as the payment system remains the same as the one that was used before with EIC-Book. This is really frustrating because I can no longer buy stuff that hasn't been released as DVD-rips yet, and it seems I can't even send them an e-mail about this for lack of actually finding any sort of direct contact with them.
The title I am mostly after right now is Kana Takasugi's Happy Heart, which has just been released in HD: http://www.eic-book.com/detail_28888.html
If anyone here was able to buy it, I could front the money. The problem here is that their files are protected with Microsoft's Windows Media Player DRM. I am also able to hack their files and strip out the DRM from them with "unDRM" (which requires a certain Windows XP setup), but, for that, I would have to have the user/password information of the account that buys it, which understandably I don't think people would be very willing to share.
My final question, then, would be: would anyone be able to offer some alternative on it, or work with me the way I mentioned? I guess a prepaid japanese credit card would work, but I don't even know if such a thing exists in there. Also, is EIC-Book the only digital retailers for Mare releases? They are the only one I know.
Thanks in advance for any ideas you might have.