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* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Its creator ZUN allowed a lot of fan works, but his guidelines specifically prohibited sale of fan works via sites primarily oriented for overseas customers (this includes stuff like iTunes and the App Store). Many creators didn't even use Japan-only download sites. This started to change in the late 2010s: After ''VideoGame/TouhouTenkuushouHiddenStarInFourSeasons'' was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in late 2017, ZUN also started allowing ''Touhou'' fan games to use Steam as long as they follow his not-that-strict guidelines. About a year later, a label that publishes Music/TouhouFanMusic on iTunes and Google Play Music appeared. Their releases are available internationally, though they're delayed, you can't stream them, ''many'' circles are still absent, and most of the ones who are there haven't made their full discographies available.
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* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Its creator ZUN allowed a lot of fan works, but his guidelines specifically prohibited sale of fan works via sites primarily oriented for overseas customers (this includes stuff like iTunes and the App Store). Many creators didn't even use Japan-only download sites. This started to change in the late 2010s: After ''VideoGame/TouhouTenkuushouHiddenStarInFourSeasons'' was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in late 2017, ZUN also started allowing ''Touhou'' fan games to use Steam as long as they follow his not-that-strict guidelines. About a year later, a label that publishes Music/TouhouFanMusic on iTunes and Google Play Music appeared. Their releases are available internationally, though they're delayed, you can't stream them, streaming only became available in 2021, ''many'' circles are still absent, and most of the ones who are there haven't made their full discographies available.
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* The Music/TouhouFanMusic circle Maikaze actually put their music on Spotify, but it had to be removed because ZUN, the ''Touhou'' creator, didn't allow it. Their music has had authorized re-releases on iTunes and Google Play Music (without the possibility of streaming), though.
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* The Music/TouhouFanMusic circle Maikaze actually put their music on Spotify, but it had to be removed because ZUN, the ''Touhou'' creator, didn't allow it. Their music has had then saw authorized re-releases on iTunes and Google Play Music (without a few digital platforms without the possibility of streaming), though.streaming... and the label later decided to put ''Touhou'' music on streaming services after all, effectively restoring the Spotify releases.
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* Music/YuuheiKatharsis can't release its music digitally because it's a bunch of ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' rearrangements.
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* Music/AOne: Their early albums (such as ''POLYGON RAIN'') lack digital releases. Additionally, the digital releases of ''MONTAGE Blue'' and ''MONTAGE Yellow'' have had the ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' track removed.
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* Per Creator/KevinSmith, due to Disney trying to jetison any involvement they had with ''{{Film/Dogma}}'', the movie's home distribution rights ended up solely in the hands of Harvey Weinstein. Because the movie isn't currently available to stream and is very unlikely to become so under Weinstein's control (especially since Weinstein's downfall and conviction for sex offenses has made any future negotiations for the rights near impossible), Smith has stated that he'd almost certainly have to pay a ransom to get the rights back and get the movie online.
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** For a while, large chunks of the Classic Series were not available on streaming platforms. The Revival Series and many more acclaimed Classic-era serials were up, but the majority of them were relegated to DVD-only status. This eventually changed with the advent of BBC Media Player and Britbox, both of which feature every surviving episode of the Classic Series available to watch.
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* Within the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'', ''Series/UltramanTiga'' is consistently missing from streaming services due to lead actor Hiroshi Nagano's talent agency Johnny's having draconian restrictions on the usage of the likenesses of their stars, especially on the Internet; Creator/TsuburayaProductions' contract with them signed in 1996 cleared home video releases, TV reruns and foreign TV broadcasts but it sure couldn't have accounted for digital streaming. The 2021 compilation clip show ''Ultraman Chronicle Z: Heroes' Odyssey'', which is available for streaming, had to UnPerson Nagano to get clear. (For a better comparison for Western readers, that would be equivalent to alternate cuts of Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse films where Tony Stark is never seen outside of his Iron Man suit in order to avoid shots of Creator/RobertDowneyJr).
* Within the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'', ''Series/UltramanTiga'' is consistently missing from streaming services due to lead actor Hiroshi Nagano's talent agency Johnny's having draconian restrictions on the usage of the likenesses of their stars, especially on the Internet; Creator/TsuburayaProductions' contract with them signed in 1996 cleared home video releases, TV reruns and foreign TV broadcasts but it sure couldn't have accounted for digital streaming. The 2021 compilation clip show ''Ultraman Chronicle Z: Heroes' Odyssey'', which is available for streaming, had to UnPerson Nagano to get clear. (For a better comparison for Western readers, that would be equivalent to alternate cuts of Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse films where Tony Stark is never seen outside of his Iron Man suit in order to avoid shots of Creator/RobertDowneyJr).
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* Per Creator/KevinSmith, due to Disney trying to jetison any involvement they had with ''{{Film/Dogma}}'', the movie's home distribution rights ended up solely in the hands of Harvey Weinstein. Because the movie isn't currently available to stream and is very unlikely to become so under Weinstein's control, Smith has stated that he'd almost certainly have to pay a ransom to get the rights back and get the movie online.
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* Outsider musician Music/{{Jandek}} has exclusively made his music available via mail order or, in recent years, his online storefront and has never released it onto streaming services or digital storefronts.
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* Due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and the need to boost Creator/HBOMax, ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' was released both in theaters wherever possible plus on the (then-US only) aforementioned streaming service. Some unlucky countries haven't had any legal access to the movie at all for months such as France, where theaters were shut down with no hope of reopening in sight. There, the film was prevented from being put either on video-on-demand or limited streaming around Chritmas 2020 because of the "Chronology of the Media" laws (it would eventually be released DirectToVideo there in April 2021). It ended up the most pirated movie of 2020 in France as a result.
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* Due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and the need to boost Creator/HBOMax, ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' was released both in theaters wherever possible plus on the (then-US only) aforementioned streaming service. Some unlucky countries haven't had any legal access to the movie at all for months such as France, where theaters were shut down. There, the film was prevented from being put either on video-on-demand or limited streaming around Chritmas 2020 because of the "Chronology of the Media" laws (it would eventually be released DirectToVideo there in April 2021). It ended up the most pirated movie of 2020 in France as a result.
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* Due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and the need to boost Creator/HBOMax, ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' was released both in theaters wherever possible plus on the (then-US only) aforementioned streaming service. Some unlucky countries haven't had any legal access to the movie at all for months such as France, where it theaters were shut down. There, the film was prevented from being put either on video-on-demand or limited streaming around Chritmas 2020 because of the "Chronology of the Media" laws (it would eventually be released DirectToVideo there in April 2021). It ended up the most pirated movie of 2020 there in France as a result.
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* Due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and the need to boost Creator/HBOMax, ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' was released both in theaters wherever possible plus on the (then-US only) aforementioned streaming service. Some countries haven't had any legal access to the movie at all for months such as France, where it was prevented from being put either on video-on-demand or limited streaming around Chritmas 2020 because of the "Chronology of the Media" laws (it would eventually be released DirectToVideo there in April 2021). It ended up the most pirated movie of 2020 there as a result.
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* Music/AkatsukiRecords is a major ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' arrangement circle whose music has appeared in {{Rhythm Game}}s. It took two years for their music to become available digitally.
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* Despite being one of of the few ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' arrangement circles to make albums almost exclusively in English (and ''good'' English at that -- not GratuitousEnglish), ORANGE JAM hasn't published its music via the label that distributes ''Touhou'' music internationally on iTunes and Google Play Music.
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* The ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' arrangement circle Music/YellowZebra. While it disbanded in 2011, its successor R-note was still active when the label that releases ''Touhou'' music digitally appeared (and is still active as of January 2020). Neither circle is on it.
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* The entire ''VideoGame/{{Bookworm}} [[VideoGame/BookwormAdventures series]]'' was inexplicably de-listed from all digital stores in 2016, and was outright scrubbed from [=PopCap=]'s site during this time. As a result, the only way to play the original game is its own rare physical release or console ports, the only way to play Adventures is to own its even rarer physical release, and the only way to play Adventures Volume 2 is to own the Wordy Wonder Bundle, an ''excessively'' rare physical release that comes bundled with it and the other two aforementioned games, and regularly runs at least 30 USD secondhand.
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* '''Region-Specific Digital Distribution''': The digital equivalent of NoExportForYou. Manufacture and shipping costs don't apply to digital releases, so in many cases, you might as well release your work worldwide if you're releasing it digitally at all. Still, this doesn't always happen. Maybe licensing issues prevent a worldwide release. Maybe the creators thought an English translation would be too expensive to be justified, but they didn't want to [[NoDubForYou release it untranslated]] either. Maybe they feared that cultural differences would get the work in hot water. Or maybe there's no obvious reason at all, and it's just a case of favoritism or nationalism... or just an oversight.
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* '''Region-Specific Digital Distribution''': The digital equivalent of NoExportForYou. Manufacture and shipping costs don't apply to digital releases, so in many cases, you might as well release your work worldwide if you're releasing it digitally at all. Still, this doesn't always happen. Maybe licensing issues prevent a worldwide release. Maybe the creators thought an English translation would be too expensive to be justified, but they didn't want to [[NoDubForYou release it untranslated]] either. [[ValuesDissonance Maybe they feared that cultural differences would get the work in hot water. water.]] Or maybe there's no obvious reason at all, and it's just a case of favoritism or nationalism... or just an oversight.
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* Many {{doujin|shi}} circles rearrange ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' music and release it on physical albums, but can't/don't release them digitally.
* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'': Its creator ZUN allowed a lot of fan works, but his guidelines specifically prohibited sale of fan works via sites primarily oriented for overseas customers (this includes stuff like iTunes and the App Store). Many creators didn't even use Japan-only download sites. This started to change in the late 2010s: After ''VideoGame/HiddenStarInFourSeasons'' was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in late 2017, ZUN also started allowing ''Touhou'' fan games to use Steam as long as they follow his not-that-strict guidelines. About a year later, a label that publishes Music/TouhouFanMusic on iTunes and Google Play Music appeared. Their releases are available internationally, though they're delayed, you can't stream them, ''many'' circles are still absent, and most of the ones who are there haven't made their full discographies available.
* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'': Its creator ZUN allowed a lot of fan works, but his guidelines specifically prohibited sale of fan works via sites primarily oriented for overseas customers (this includes stuff like iTunes and the App Store). Many creators didn't even use Japan-only download sites. This started to change in the late 2010s: After ''VideoGame/HiddenStarInFourSeasons'' was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in late 2017, ZUN also started allowing ''Touhou'' fan games to use Steam as long as they follow his not-that-strict guidelines. About a year later, a label that publishes Music/TouhouFanMusic on iTunes and Google Play Music appeared. Their releases are available internationally, though they're delayed, you can't stream them, ''many'' circles are still absent, and most of the ones who are there haven't made their full discographies available.
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*''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'': ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Its creator ZUN allowed a lot of fan works, but his guidelines specifically prohibited sale of fan works via sites primarily oriented for overseas customers (this includes stuff like iTunes and the App Store). Many creators didn't even use Japan-only download sites. This started to change in the late 2010s: After ''VideoGame/HiddenStarInFourSeasons'' ''VideoGame/TouhouTenkuushouHiddenStarInFourSeasons'' was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in late 2017, ZUN also started allowing ''Touhou'' fan games to use Steam as long as they follow his not-that-strict guidelines. About a year later, a label that publishes Music/TouhouFanMusic on iTunes and Google Play Music appeared. Their releases are available internationally, though they're delayed, you can't stream them, ''many'' circles are still absent, and most of the ones who are there haven't made their full discographies available.
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* The {{TabletopGame/Star Wars Roleplaying Game}}s developed by Fantasy Flight Games do not have PDF versions officially on sale courtesy of a detail in their contract with Lucasfilm/Disney that is meant to be a non-contest clause (legally speaking, only Creator/ElectronicArts has the rights to create digital content). It's supposed to prevent FFG from releasing videogames, but it's broad enough to stop PDF releases too.
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* The ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' games have been quite popular in the 2000s and 2010s, but ZUN has refused to release them digitally or even [[NoExportForYou make them available for overseas fans]]. In August 2014, he made an exception by releasing ''VideoGame/DoubleDealingCharacter'' on Playism, but that was a one-time thing. He changed his mind in 2017 -- ''VideoGame/HiddenStarInFourSeasons'' was released on Steam, and he started gradually releasing the catalogue of official ''Touhou'' games on Steam, with the newest ones first.
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* The ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' games have been quite popular in the 2000s and 2010s, but ZUN has refused to release them digitally or even [[NoExportForYou make them available for overseas fans]]. In August 2014, he made an exception by releasing ''VideoGame/DoubleDealingCharacter'' ''VideoGame/TouhouKishinjouDoubleDealingCharacter'' on Playism, but that was a one-time thing. He changed his mind in 2017 -- ''VideoGame/HiddenStarInFourSeasons'' ''VideoGame/TouhouTenkuushouHiddenStarInFourSeasons'' was released on Steam, and he started gradually releasing the catalogue of official ''Touhou'' games on Steam, with the newest ones first.
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* While the bulk of Music/CaptainBeefheart's discography is readily available to stream, his seminal album ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'' is absent from digital services for unclear reasons.
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* Due to Music/TheKLF [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes deleting their entire discography]] upon disbanding in the 1990's, long before the advent of digital distribution, their music was completely unavailable for streaming for years. This was eventually averted in 2021 when the band released a greatest hits compilation and a revised version of their album ''Chill Out''[[note]]with the samples that couldn't be cleared removed and the title changed to ''Come Down Dawn''[[/note]] to streaming services.
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* Music/AlstroemeriaRecords: Albums released before ''POP CULTURE 4'' or after ''POP CULTURE 9'' are missing from iTunes and Google Play Music.
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* Music/AlstroemeriaRecords: Albums Most albums released before ''POP CULTURE 4'' or after ''POP CULTURE 9'' ''IMAGINARY JOURNEY'' are missing from iTunes and Google Play Music.
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* The Nintendo Labo kits and ''VideoGame/RingFitAdventure'' are among the few UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch games that cannot be downloaded on the eShop. This is because the games comes with physical peripherals (cardboard accessories for the former, the Ring-Con and Leg Strap for the latter), so getting digital versions of those games without the peripherals would be incomplete experiences.
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* ''VideoGame/MarioKart Live: Home Circuit'' and ''VideoGame/RingFitAdventure'' are among the few UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch games that cannot be downloaded on the eShop. This is because both games come with physical peripherals (remote controlled cars for the former, the Ring-Con and Leg Strap for the latter), so getting a digital version of those games without the peripherals would be incomplete experiences.
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* The PC version of ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted'' will likely never be sold digitally again, especially after the remake came out.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E1StarkRavingDad Stark Raving Dad]]" ''was'' available on sites like Creator/{{Hulu}}, but it was eventually pulled in 2019 following the release of the controversial documentary ''Leaving Neverland'', which introduced some new alleged facts about Music/MichaelJackson's child abuse, and is the only ''Simpsons'' episode to be excluded from Creator/DisneyPlus.
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* Music/KingCrimson are widely considered ''the'' most famous case of this across media: de-facto leader Robert Fripp spent the better part of two decades openly reviling digital distribution for the low royalties artists received from it, and did everything he could to ensure that the band's music could only be listened to on a physical format. Alongside Music/{{Prince}}, Fripp's affinity for going after even fan uploads became the stuff of legend among fans, and the idea of King Crimson appearing on digital platforms was treated as wishful thinking at ''best''... which made it all the more surprising when the entire King Crimson catalog was added to Spotify in 2019, with other platforms following suit over the course of the next few months.
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* This was the longest practice from Creator/StudioGhibli, which refused to put out their movies on streaming services. Though, that changed in 2020 with HBO Max and Netflix gaining rights to distribute them.
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** For a time during TheNineties and the TurnOfTheMillennium, fan-made audio-plus-telesnap reconstructions of''Series/DoctorWho'' {{Missing Episode}}s were only distributed on analogue VHS, to prevent them from being made widely available on the Internet, which might have brought IP complaints from the BBC.BBC.
** For a while, large chunks of the Classic Series were not available on streaming platforms. The Revival Series and many more acclaimed Classic-era serials were up, but the majority of them were relegated to DVD-only status. This eventually changed with the advent of BBC Media Player and Britbox, both of which feature every surviving episode of the Classic Series available to watch.
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* Despite being widely considered one of Music/NewOrder's best albums, ''Music/{{Substance|NewOrderAlbum}}'' remained absent from streaming and digital download platforms all the way until 2020, by which point the rest of their studio discography had already been put up. Even after it finally got included, the version used was the CD one, leaving the cassette-exclusive songs in KeepCirculatingTheTapes purgatory.
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Digital distribution has a lot of advantages. You don't need to press any [=CDs=], [=DVDs=], or whatever. You don't have to package them, store them, ship them or manage stock. Also, your customers can't resell their copies of the work. Still, there are some creators who insist on only using physical releases. There are a few reasons why. The creator may feel that the physical release becomes more special if there's no digital equivalent. Maybe licensing issues prevent a digital release. If the work is ''very'' obscure and its fanbase vastly prefers owning physical copies, the market for a digital release may be so tiny that even paying the small fee to get it on a service like iTunes isn't worth it.
{{Doujin|shi}} works often fall under Denial of Digital Distribution. A common explanation is copyright: Many of them are derivative works, and while IP owners are typically willing to ignore people who sell a limited number of physical copies, they may [[ScrewedByTheLawyers take action]] if you're selling a theoretically unlimited number of them digitally. And even if the work is fully original, the creators may feel that digital distribution goes against the "doujin spirit".
In many other cases, digital distribution does exist, but is restricted in some way. Common patterns include the following (note that some don't require a physical release):
* '''Denial of Streaming''': You can purchase the work digitally, but it's not on services like Spotify or Netflix. The usual justification is that the streaming services pay creators too little -- if this argument is used, expect debates on whether the creator's stance is justified, or they're just being greedy. In some cases, the creator will allow the work to be on certain streaming services, but not others.
* '''Delayed Digital Distribution''': The digital equivalent of LateExportForYou, but usually not as severe. Presumably, the creator hopes that impatient fans will buy the physical release, but still wants people who wouldn't have done that anyway to have the option to buy it digitally. Delayed Digital Distribution can also happen if the creator was initially opposed to digital distribution, but later changed their mind and made their work(s) available.
* '''Delayed Streaming''': A combination of the above. You can purchase the work digitally on its release day, but if you want to stream it, you'll have to wait. This is obviously done to encourage people to buy the work, which is usually more profitable than streaming.[[note]]Most music streaming services pay the label less than a cent per stream, so unless you stream a song a ''lot'', they're better off if you just buy it for $1, even if iTunes takes a 30% cut.[[/note]] A particularly mild version of this is Spotify's option to let artists keep their music off the free tier for the first two weeks.
* '''Bad Digital Distribution''': The digital equivalent of BadExportForYou -- the digital copies are watered down compared to the physical ones. Typically, this happens because the creator wanted you to buy it physically instead (e.g. a digital album release missing a bonus track), or because rights issues affect specific parts of the work (e.g. a song being removed because someone who worked on it didn't want it to be on the digital version). Alternatively, the digital version is somehow more expensive than the physical release despite having no extra content.
* '''Region-Specific Digital Distribution''': The digital equivalent of NoExportForYou. Manufacture and shipping costs don't apply to digital releases, so in many cases, you might as well release your work worldwide if you're releasing it digitally at all. Still, this doesn't always happen. Maybe licensing issues prevent a worldwide release. Maybe the creators thought an English translation would be too expensive to be justified, but they didn't want to [[NoDubForYou release it untranslated]] either. Maybe they feared that cultural differences would get the work in hot water. Or maybe there's no obvious reason at all, and it's just a case of favoritism or nationalism... or just an oversight.
* '''Partial Digital Distribution''': The digital equivalent of MissingEpisode. Some of the creator's work is available digitally, but not all. Maybe the missing works are [[OldShame the ones the creator would rather forget anyway]]. Maybe there are some rights issues that only affect some of the creator's works. Maybe it's just an oversight.
* '''Limited Digital Copies''': There's only a limited number of digital copies available. This can serve to pacify licensors who don't want you to sell too many copies, but in most cases, its only purpose is pressuring you to buy the thing right now because it might be gone soon. Alternatively, the digital release is time-limited -- again, to pressure you to buy it before it's gone.
If there's no digital distribution and the physical copies go out of print, the work will fall under KeepCirculatingTheTapes. Compare MissingEpisode, TemporaryOnlineContent, LateExportForYou, BadExportForYou and NoExportForYou.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* This was the longest practice from Creator/StudioGhibli, which refused to put out their movies on streaming services. Though, that changed in 2020 with HBO Max and Netflix gaining rights to distribute them.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/TheTick'' has never been distributed digitally, and likely never will be, as publisher New England Comics is in the brick-and-mortar comic-store business, and thus would not allow a digital alternative.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' was an example of this for a long time, with Gary Larsen disallowing any official releases of his work except in book collections and calendars, although fans posted the strips online ''unofficially'' with great frequency. He eventually relented in late 2019, with the strip's website relaunched to become its official online home.
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[[folder:Franchises]]
* Many {{doujin|shi}} circles rearrange ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' music and release it on physical albums, but can't/don't release them digitally.
* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'': Its creator ZUN allowed a lot of fan works, but his guidelines specifically prohibited sale of fan works via sites primarily oriented for overseas customers (this includes stuff like iTunes and the App Store). Many creators didn't even use Japan-only download sites. This started to change in the late 2010s: After ''VideoGame/HiddenStarInFourSeasons'' was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in late 2017, ZUN also started allowing ''Touhou'' fan games to use Steam as long as they follow his not-that-strict guidelines. About a year later, a label that publishes Music/TouhouFanMusic on iTunes and Google Play Music appeared. Their releases are available internationally, though they're delayed, you can't stream them, ''many'' circles are still absent, and most of the ones who are there haven't made their full discographies available.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* For a time during the 1990s and 2000s, fan-made audio-plus-telesnap reconstructions of ''Series/DoctorWho'' {{Missing Episode}}s were only distributed on analogue VHS, to prevent them from being made widely available on the internet, which might have brought IP complaints from the BBC.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Music/{{Aaliyah}}'s music from Creator/JiveRecords is widely available on digital platforms, most notably her debut album, ''Age Ain't Nothing but a Number'' (1994). However, all her subsequent music--from her time at Blackground Records-- is unavailable from streaming services [[https://www.complex.com/music/2016/12/aaliyahs-music-isnt-online-and-her-uncle-barry-hankerson-is-the-reason-why due to the refusal of Aaliyah's uncle, Barry Hankerson]]. [[https://twitter.com/AaliyahHaughton/status/1350171021391900673?s=20 As of 2021]], Aaliyah's estate has yet to carry through on its plans to widely distribute her music.
* Only one Music/{{AdamKadmon}} album -- the compilation album ''sand'' -- has been released digitally.
* Music/AkatsukiRecords is a major ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' arrangement circle whose music has appeared in {{Rhythm Game}}s. It took two years for their music to become available digitally.
* Music/AlstroemeriaRecords: Albums released before ''POP CULTURE 4'' or after ''POP CULTURE 9'' are missing from iTunes and Google Play Music.
* Music/AmaterasRecords:
** The songs "Indomitable Spirit", "Flying!", "Question." and "Conflict" (including remixes) have been removed from every digital release due to Konami licensing.
** ''Brilliant Story'' and its instrumental version both miss the last track. Similarly, ''Sparkling Alteration'' and its instrumental version both miss the last two tracks (possibly because they come from the ''TOHO PARTYBOX'' series).
* Music/AOne: Their early albums (such as ''POLYGON RAIN'') lack digital releases. Additionally, the digital releases of ''MONTAGE Blue'' and ''MONTAGE Yellow'' have had the ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' track removed.
* Music/{{Beyonce}}'s ''Lemonade'' was released on Tidal on April 23, 2016, and made available for digital purchase the following day. Physical copies became available on May 6. However, the album first appeared on Spotify and Apple Music three years after its initial release.
* In 2018, Music/{{BUTAOTOME}} made their old ''Touhou'' albums available digitally. However, their old original albums (''Bowling'', ''Chess'', ''Billiards'', ''Hanafuda'' and ''Doubt'') did not get digital re-releases. Neither did the Solo Buta-R album ''Kaen Ranzen'', which features guest arrangers from other circles.
* [[Music/CClays C-CLAYS]] have released over 70 [=CDs=]. Only ''SOLE'', ''LUNA'', ''YES!'' and ''CORE'' are sold digitally. Notably, these albums do not feature vocalist Mai Kotohge, but several MUONKAGURA albums featuring her are available.
* The digital releases of Music/{{CrazyBeats}}'s albums are missing the remixed [[Music/AOne A-One]] tracks.
* Due to various issues, most of Music/DeLaSoul's music is not available digitally.
* {{Doujin|shi}} circle Music/{{Halozy}} has suspended all of their activities in October 2017 with no plans to return to the doujin music industry. As of January 2020, none of their albums are available digitally, despite rumors flying about that they are.
* Music/{{Jojo}}'s first two albums, ''[=JoJo=]'' (2004) and ''The High Road'' (2006) are unavailable digitally in their original forms. This relates to her contractual battle with her original label, Blackground Records. After she was released, [=JoJo=] eventually re-recorded her first two albums and re-release them with redone vocals and production.
* A little of [[Music/{{BEMANI}} Kanako Hoshino]]'s music is on Spotify and iTunes, but ''EIGHT ELEMENTS OF THE STAR'', ''EIGHT ELEMENTS OF THE STAR ~ANOTHER SENSE~'', ''Prism'', ''Starry ~the way to the SIRIUS~'', ''Articulation'' and ''Sky Arium'' are missing.
* The Music/TouhouFanMusic circle Maikaze actually put their music on Spotify, but it had to be removed because ZUN, the ''Touhou'' creator, didn't allow it. Their music has had authorized re-releases on iTunes and Google Play Music (without the possibility of streaming), though.
* Music/{{Metallica}}'s catalogue is not available on Tidal in the USA/Canada, but their albums are available in other countries.
* Music/MonochromeCoat have released 19 albums. Only ''LOCK'' is available digitally.
* Despite being one of of the few ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' arrangement circles to make albums almost exclusively in English (and ''good'' English at that -- not GratuitousEnglish), ORANGE JAM hasn't published its music via the label that distributes ''Touhou'' music internationally on iTunes and Google Play Music.
* Music/PizuyasCell normally doesn't use digital distribution. However, the circle did sell some cheap digital compilations for Black Friday 2019. These releases were both time-limited and quantity-limited.
* [[Music/SeventhHeavenMaxion Seventh Heaven MAXION]] started publishing its albums on [=DLSite=] and [=MelonbooksDL=] in early 2016, but there are still eleven albums it never got around to re-releasing. Additionally, the offered downloads are lossy.
* Most of Music/SoundHolic's discography is available digitally, but there are some exceptions, and the digital releases tend to come later than most albums that were released at the same event.
* Music/ShinRaBansho: The albums ''Season 4 you'', ''M other'', ''On That Day, I Looked Up at the Sky'', ''Doppel'' and the original ''Ano Hi no Yume no Alice'' are missing from the digital marketplaces that offer their music. Also, ''Touhou Utattemita'' lacks "Hoshi wo Mawase Tsuki yori Hayaku"
* [[Music/SyncArtS SYNC.ART'S]]: Its first three collaboration albums with Lunark have been released on multiple digital platforms, though it was a while after their physical releases. Out of all its non-collaboration albums, only ''Kitty'' is available digitally.
* Music/TaylorSwift has [[https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/9/15767986/taylor-swift-apple-music-spotify-statements-timeline a history of Denial of Streaming]]: Her album ''1989'' did not appear on Spotify when it was released in October 2014, and the rest of her catalogue was removed the next month. In March 2015, all of her music except ''1989'' was put on Tidal (which doesn't have a free tier). In June 2015, she refused to put her music on Apple Music because she thought it was unfair that artists wouldn't see any royalties from streams during the three-month free trial. Apple acquiesced to her demand, and the following week, she announced that ''1989'' would stream for the first time on Apple Music (alongside her back catalogue). However, she didn't want to put it on other services yet. As of 2017, her music is back on Spotify, and also available on Pandora and Google Play Music.
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} TERRA]]: Their first album ''REVOLUTION'' was not released digitally at all. Their second album ''EVOLUTION'' was... but not for Europe.
* Music/{{Tool}} initially resisted releasing their catalogue to streaming services, although in 2017 they were reported to be considering it, and finally did release their albums digitally in August 2019, just before the debut of ''Fear Inoculum''.
* [[Music/UndeadCorporation UNDEAD CORPORATION]]:
** The Unlucky Morpheus collaboration album ''Parallelism gamma'' is not available digitally even though both of the participating groups are okay with digital distribution.
** The digital release of ''Am I already dead?'' doesn't include the screamless version of track 8. Similarly, ''Japanese ogre story'' doesn't include the instrumental/screamless versions.
* Music/UnluckyMorpheus:
** The original versions of ''Hypothetical Box'', ''REBIRTH'' and ''Jealousy'' are not available digitally. Neither are the {{instrumental|s}} versions of ''REBIRTH'' and ''Jealousy''.
** The albums ''Faith and Warfare'', ''HEAVY METAL BE-BOP'' and ''Miseria Kills Slaughterously'' are not available for digital purchase.
** The UNDEAD CORPORATION collaboration album ''Parallelism gamma'' is not available digitally even though both of the participating groups are okay with digital distribution.
* Music/KanyeWest's ''Music/TheLifeOfPablo'' was originally a Tidal exclusive, and West vowed that it would never appear on any other services [than Tidal], nor would it ever be for sale. It was released on other streaming services and for digital purchase on his website on April 1, 2016.
* Music/{{Whitey}}, out of frustration with major record companies, began selling his music exclusively through Bandcamp and as physical copies.
* The ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' arrangement circle Music/YellowZebra. While it disbanded in 2011, its successor R-note was still active when the label that releases ''Touhou'' music digitally appeared (and is still active as of January 2020). Neither circle is on it.
* Music/YuuheiKatharsis can't release its music digitally because it's a bunch of ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' rearrangements.
* Music/YuuheiSatellite has done a mostly good job of making their catalogue available for purchase (not streaming) on iTunes and Google Play, but some (not all) of the event-exclusive and limited retailer-specific [=CDs=] are missing. Also, all but a few early sample albums are missing. This isn't a big deal for most of them, whose songs later appear on an album that did get a digital release anyway. However, there are a few exceptions. One of them is the TitleTrack on the sample ''Hana to Ame''. Its original version was never re-released, and even its cover version only showed up on a physical exclusive CD.
* ZUN's albums. The ten ''Music/TouhouZUNsMusicCollection'' [=CDs=] and five ''Akyu's Untouched Score'' soundtrack albums were released between 2002 and 2016, but didn't appear on iTunes and Google Play Music until 2018. They still can't be streamed.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* The {{TabletopGame/Star Wars Roleplaying Game}}s developed by Fantasy Flight Games do not have PDF versions officially on sale courtesy of a detail in their contract with Lucasfilm/Disney that is meant to be a non-contest clause (legally speaking, only Creator/ElectronicArts has the rights to create digital content). It's supposed to prevent FFG from releasing videogames, but it's broad enough to stop PDF releases too.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/CrisisCoreFinalFantasyVII'' is one of the few of Creator/SquareEnix's games for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable that wasn't made available digitally following its physical release. No one knows why for sure, but fandom speculation points to one of the game's characters actually using the likeness of Japanese singer Creator/{{Gackt}} and suggested that whatever contract he and Square Enix made during the game's production doesn't allow for a digital release.
* ''VideoGame/RepublicTheRevolution''. After its original publisher Creator/{{Eidos}} folded, the IP went to Creator/{{Rebellion}}, who ''did'' put it on Website/GogDotCom in 2009 -- but then pulled it again in 2011 and have effectively denied any sort of digital distribution of the game ever since.
* ''Super Mario 3D All-Stars'', a CompilationRerelease featuring three ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' games, is only available until March 31, 2021. This applies to both the physical version and the digital version.
* The ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' games have been quite popular in the 2000s and 2010s, but ZUN has refused to release them digitally or even [[NoExportForYou make them available for overseas fans]]. In August 2014, he made an exception by releasing ''VideoGame/DoubleDealingCharacter'' on Playism, but that was a one-time thing. He changed his mind in 2017 -- ''VideoGame/HiddenStarInFourSeasons'' was released on Steam, and he started gradually releasing the catalogue of official ''Touhou'' games on Steam, with the newest ones first.
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{{Doujin|shi}} works often fall under Denial of Digital Distribution. A common explanation is copyright: Many of them are derivative works, and while IP owners are typically willing to ignore people who sell a limited number of physical copies, they may [[ScrewedByTheLawyers take action]] if you're selling a theoretically unlimited number of them digitally. And even if the work is fully original, the creators may feel that digital distribution goes against the "doujin spirit".
In many other cases, digital distribution does exist, but is restricted in some way. Common patterns include the following (note that some don't require a physical release):
* '''Denial of Streaming''': You can purchase the work digitally, but it's not on services like Spotify or Netflix. The usual justification is that the streaming services pay creators too little -- if this argument is used, expect debates on whether the creator's stance is justified, or they're just being greedy. In some cases, the creator will allow the work to be on certain streaming services, but not others.
* '''Delayed Digital Distribution''': The digital equivalent of LateExportForYou, but usually not as severe. Presumably, the creator hopes that impatient fans will buy the physical release, but still wants people who wouldn't have done that anyway to have the option to buy it digitally. Delayed Digital Distribution can also happen if the creator was initially opposed to digital distribution, but later changed their mind and made their work(s) available.
* '''Delayed Streaming''': A combination of the above. You can purchase the work digitally on its release day, but if you want to stream it, you'll have to wait. This is obviously done to encourage people to buy the work, which is usually more profitable than streaming.[[note]]Most music streaming services pay the label less than a cent per stream, so unless you stream a song a ''lot'', they're better off if you just buy it for $1, even if iTunes takes a 30% cut.[[/note]] A particularly mild version of this is Spotify's option to let artists keep their music off the free tier for the first two weeks.
* '''Bad Digital Distribution''': The digital equivalent of BadExportForYou -- the digital copies are watered down compared to the physical ones. Typically, this happens because the creator wanted you to buy it physically instead (e.g. a digital album release missing a bonus track), or because rights issues affect specific parts of the work (e.g. a song being removed because someone who worked on it didn't want it to be on the digital version). Alternatively, the digital version is somehow more expensive than the physical release despite having no extra content.
* '''Region-Specific Digital Distribution''': The digital equivalent of NoExportForYou. Manufacture and shipping costs don't apply to digital releases, so in many cases, you might as well release your work worldwide if you're releasing it digitally at all. Still, this doesn't always happen. Maybe licensing issues prevent a worldwide release. Maybe the creators thought an English translation would be too expensive to be justified, but they didn't want to [[NoDubForYou release it untranslated]] either. Maybe they feared that cultural differences would get the work in hot water. Or maybe there's no obvious reason at all, and it's just a case of favoritism or nationalism... or just an oversight.
* '''Partial Digital Distribution''': The digital equivalent of MissingEpisode. Some of the creator's work is available digitally, but not all. Maybe the missing works are [[OldShame the ones the creator would rather forget anyway]]. Maybe there are some rights issues that only affect some of the creator's works. Maybe it's just an oversight.
* '''Limited Digital Copies''': There's only a limited number of digital copies available. This can serve to pacify licensors who don't want you to sell too many copies, but in most cases, its only purpose is pressuring you to buy the thing right now because it might be gone soon. Alternatively, the digital release is time-limited -- again, to pressure you to buy it before it's gone.
If there's no digital distribution and the physical copies go out of print, the work will fall under KeepCirculatingTheTapes. Compare MissingEpisode, TemporaryOnlineContent, LateExportForYou, BadExportForYou and NoExportForYou.
!!Examples
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* This was the longest practice from Creator/StudioGhibli, which refused to put out their movies on streaming services. Though, that changed in 2020 with HBO Max and Netflix gaining rights to distribute them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/TheTick'' has never been distributed digitally, and likely never will be, as publisher New England Comics is in the brick-and-mortar comic-store business, and thus would not allow a digital alternative.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' was an example of this for a long time, with Gary Larsen disallowing any official releases of his work except in book collections and calendars, although fans posted the strips online ''unofficially'' with great frequency. He eventually relented in late 2019, with the strip's website relaunched to become its official online home.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Franchises]]
* Many {{doujin|shi}} circles rearrange ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' music and release it on physical albums, but can't/don't release them digitally.
* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'': Its creator ZUN allowed a lot of fan works, but his guidelines specifically prohibited sale of fan works via sites primarily oriented for overseas customers (this includes stuff like iTunes and the App Store). Many creators didn't even use Japan-only download sites. This started to change in the late 2010s: After ''VideoGame/HiddenStarInFourSeasons'' was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in late 2017, ZUN also started allowing ''Touhou'' fan games to use Steam as long as they follow his not-that-strict guidelines. About a year later, a label that publishes Music/TouhouFanMusic on iTunes and Google Play Music appeared. Their releases are available internationally, though they're delayed, you can't stream them, ''many'' circles are still absent, and most of the ones who are there haven't made their full discographies available.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* For a time during the 1990s and 2000s, fan-made audio-plus-telesnap reconstructions of ''Series/DoctorWho'' {{Missing Episode}}s were only distributed on analogue VHS, to prevent them from being made widely available on the internet, which might have brought IP complaints from the BBC.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* Music/{{Aaliyah}}'s music from Creator/JiveRecords is widely available on digital platforms, most notably her debut album, ''Age Ain't Nothing but a Number'' (1994). However, all her subsequent music--from her time at Blackground Records-- is unavailable from streaming services [[https://www.complex.com/music/2016/12/aaliyahs-music-isnt-online-and-her-uncle-barry-hankerson-is-the-reason-why due to the refusal of Aaliyah's uncle, Barry Hankerson]]. [[https://twitter.com/AaliyahHaughton/status/1350171021391900673?s=20 As of 2021]], Aaliyah's estate has yet to carry through on its plans to widely distribute her music.
* Only one Music/{{AdamKadmon}} album -- the compilation album ''sand'' -- has been released digitally.
* Music/AkatsukiRecords is a major ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' arrangement circle whose music has appeared in {{Rhythm Game}}s. It took two years for their music to become available digitally.
* Music/AlstroemeriaRecords: Albums released before ''POP CULTURE 4'' or after ''POP CULTURE 9'' are missing from iTunes and Google Play Music.
* Music/AmaterasRecords:
** The songs "Indomitable Spirit", "Flying!", "Question." and "Conflict" (including remixes) have been removed from every digital release due to Konami licensing.
** ''Brilliant Story'' and its instrumental version both miss the last track. Similarly, ''Sparkling Alteration'' and its instrumental version both miss the last two tracks (possibly because they come from the ''TOHO PARTYBOX'' series).
* Music/AOne: Their early albums (such as ''POLYGON RAIN'') lack digital releases. Additionally, the digital releases of ''MONTAGE Blue'' and ''MONTAGE Yellow'' have had the ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' track removed.
* Music/{{Beyonce}}'s ''Lemonade'' was released on Tidal on April 23, 2016, and made available for digital purchase the following day. Physical copies became available on May 6. However, the album first appeared on Spotify and Apple Music three years after its initial release.
* In 2018, Music/{{BUTAOTOME}} made their old ''Touhou'' albums available digitally. However, their old original albums (''Bowling'', ''Chess'', ''Billiards'', ''Hanafuda'' and ''Doubt'') did not get digital re-releases. Neither did the Solo Buta-R album ''Kaen Ranzen'', which features guest arrangers from other circles.
* [[Music/CClays C-CLAYS]] have released over 70 [=CDs=]. Only ''SOLE'', ''LUNA'', ''YES!'' and ''CORE'' are sold digitally. Notably, these albums do not feature vocalist Mai Kotohge, but several MUONKAGURA albums featuring her are available.
* The digital releases of Music/{{CrazyBeats}}'s albums are missing the remixed [[Music/AOne A-One]] tracks.
* Due to various issues, most of Music/DeLaSoul's music is not available digitally.
* {{Doujin|shi}} circle Music/{{Halozy}} has suspended all of their activities in October 2017 with no plans to return to the doujin music industry. As of January 2020, none of their albums are available digitally, despite rumors flying about that they are.
* Music/{{Jojo}}'s first two albums, ''[=JoJo=]'' (2004) and ''The High Road'' (2006) are unavailable digitally in their original forms. This relates to her contractual battle with her original label, Blackground Records. After she was released, [=JoJo=] eventually re-recorded her first two albums and re-release them with redone vocals and production.
* A little of [[Music/{{BEMANI}} Kanako Hoshino]]'s music is on Spotify and iTunes, but ''EIGHT ELEMENTS OF THE STAR'', ''EIGHT ELEMENTS OF THE STAR ~ANOTHER SENSE~'', ''Prism'', ''Starry ~the way to the SIRIUS~'', ''Articulation'' and ''Sky Arium'' are missing.
* The Music/TouhouFanMusic circle Maikaze actually put their music on Spotify, but it had to be removed because ZUN, the ''Touhou'' creator, didn't allow it. Their music has had authorized re-releases on iTunes and Google Play Music (without the possibility of streaming), though.
* Music/{{Metallica}}'s catalogue is not available on Tidal in the USA/Canada, but their albums are available in other countries.
* Music/MonochromeCoat have released 19 albums. Only ''LOCK'' is available digitally.
* Despite being one of of the few ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' arrangement circles to make albums almost exclusively in English (and ''good'' English at that -- not GratuitousEnglish), ORANGE JAM hasn't published its music via the label that distributes ''Touhou'' music internationally on iTunes and Google Play Music.
* Music/PizuyasCell normally doesn't use digital distribution. However, the circle did sell some cheap digital compilations for Black Friday 2019. These releases were both time-limited and quantity-limited.
* [[Music/SeventhHeavenMaxion Seventh Heaven MAXION]] started publishing its albums on [=DLSite=] and [=MelonbooksDL=] in early 2016, but there are still eleven albums it never got around to re-releasing. Additionally, the offered downloads are lossy.
* Most of Music/SoundHolic's discography is available digitally, but there are some exceptions, and the digital releases tend to come later than most albums that were released at the same event.
* Music/ShinRaBansho: The albums ''Season 4 you'', ''M other'', ''On That Day, I Looked Up at the Sky'', ''Doppel'' and the original ''Ano Hi no Yume no Alice'' are missing from the digital marketplaces that offer their music. Also, ''Touhou Utattemita'' lacks "Hoshi wo Mawase Tsuki yori Hayaku"
* [[Music/SyncArtS SYNC.ART'S]]: Its first three collaboration albums with Lunark have been released on multiple digital platforms, though it was a while after their physical releases. Out of all its non-collaboration albums, only ''Kitty'' is available digitally.
* Music/TaylorSwift has [[https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/9/15767986/taylor-swift-apple-music-spotify-statements-timeline a history of Denial of Streaming]]: Her album ''1989'' did not appear on Spotify when it was released in October 2014, and the rest of her catalogue was removed the next month. In March 2015, all of her music except ''1989'' was put on Tidal (which doesn't have a free tier). In June 2015, she refused to put her music on Apple Music because she thought it was unfair that artists wouldn't see any royalties from streams during the three-month free trial. Apple acquiesced to her demand, and the following week, she announced that ''1989'' would stream for the first time on Apple Music (alongside her back catalogue). However, she didn't want to put it on other services yet. As of 2017, her music is back on Spotify, and also available on Pandora and Google Play Music.
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} TERRA]]: Their first album ''REVOLUTION'' was not released digitally at all. Their second album ''EVOLUTION'' was... but not for Europe.
* Music/{{Tool}} initially resisted releasing their catalogue to streaming services, although in 2017 they were reported to be considering it, and finally did release their albums digitally in August 2019, just before the debut of ''Fear Inoculum''.
* [[Music/UndeadCorporation UNDEAD CORPORATION]]:
** The Unlucky Morpheus collaboration album ''Parallelism gamma'' is not available digitally even though both of the participating groups are okay with digital distribution.
** The digital release of ''Am I already dead?'' doesn't include the screamless version of track 8. Similarly, ''Japanese ogre story'' doesn't include the instrumental/screamless versions.
* Music/UnluckyMorpheus:
** The original versions of ''Hypothetical Box'', ''REBIRTH'' and ''Jealousy'' are not available digitally. Neither are the {{instrumental|s}} versions of ''REBIRTH'' and ''Jealousy''.
** The albums ''Faith and Warfare'', ''HEAVY METAL BE-BOP'' and ''Miseria Kills Slaughterously'' are not available for digital purchase.
** The UNDEAD CORPORATION collaboration album ''Parallelism gamma'' is not available digitally even though both of the participating groups are okay with digital distribution.
* Music/KanyeWest's ''Music/TheLifeOfPablo'' was originally a Tidal exclusive, and West vowed that it would never appear on any other services [than Tidal], nor would it ever be for sale. It was released on other streaming services and for digital purchase on his website on April 1, 2016.
* Music/{{Whitey}}, out of frustration with major record companies, began selling his music exclusively through Bandcamp and as physical copies.
* The ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' arrangement circle Music/YellowZebra. While it disbanded in 2011, its successor R-note was still active when the label that releases ''Touhou'' music digitally appeared (and is still active as of January 2020). Neither circle is on it.
* Music/YuuheiKatharsis can't release its music digitally because it's a bunch of ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' rearrangements.
* Music/YuuheiSatellite has done a mostly good job of making their catalogue available for purchase (not streaming) on iTunes and Google Play, but some (not all) of the event-exclusive and limited retailer-specific [=CDs=] are missing. Also, all but a few early sample albums are missing. This isn't a big deal for most of them, whose songs later appear on an album that did get a digital release anyway. However, there are a few exceptions. One of them is the TitleTrack on the sample ''Hana to Ame''. Its original version was never re-released, and even its cover version only showed up on a physical exclusive CD.
* ZUN's albums. The ten ''Music/TouhouZUNsMusicCollection'' [=CDs=] and five ''Akyu's Untouched Score'' soundtrack albums were released between 2002 and 2016, but didn't appear on iTunes and Google Play Music until 2018. They still can't be streamed.
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* The {{TabletopGame/Star Wars Roleplaying Game}}s developed by Fantasy Flight Games do not have PDF versions officially on sale courtesy of a detail in their contract with Lucasfilm/Disney that is meant to be a non-contest clause (legally speaking, only Creator/ElectronicArts has the rights to create digital content). It's supposed to prevent FFG from releasing videogames, but it's broad enough to stop PDF releases too.
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* ''VideoGame/CrisisCoreFinalFantasyVII'' is one of the few of Creator/SquareEnix's games for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable that wasn't made available digitally following its physical release. No one knows why for sure, but fandom speculation points to one of the game's characters actually using the likeness of Japanese singer Creator/{{Gackt}} and suggested that whatever contract he and Square Enix made during the game's production doesn't allow for a digital release.
* ''VideoGame/RepublicTheRevolution''. After its original publisher Creator/{{Eidos}} folded, the IP went to Creator/{{Rebellion}}, who ''did'' put it on Website/GogDotCom in 2009 -- but then pulled it again in 2011 and have effectively denied any sort of digital distribution of the game ever since.
* ''Super Mario 3D All-Stars'', a CompilationRerelease featuring three ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' games, is only available until March 31, 2021. This applies to both the physical version and the digital version.
* The ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' games have been quite popular in the 2000s and 2010s, but ZUN has refused to release them digitally or even [[NoExportForYou make them available for overseas fans]]. In August 2014, he made an exception by releasing ''VideoGame/DoubleDealingCharacter'' on Playism, but that was a one-time thing. He changed his mind in 2017 -- ''VideoGame/HiddenStarInFourSeasons'' was released on Steam, and he started gradually releasing the catalogue of official ''Touhou'' games on Steam, with the newest ones first.
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