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Did Frank Zappa Come Up With A Business Plan For File Sharing In 1983? (2009)

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• hydrogen7800 2y ago
  This has been posted a few times over the years without much traction, but I shamelessly mimicked the title of some recent threads. Zappa was apparently mostly interested in making record companies' less profitable back-catalogs available for download, since they were constantly made unavailable in physical media by new releases. Nonetheless, this seems to be a very novel idea for the time. I'm not sure if there was ever any technical implementation conceived for this.
• BLKNSLVR 2y ago
  "MUSIC CONSUMERS LIKE TO CONSUME MUSIC . . . NOT PIECES OF VINYL WRAPPED IN PIECES OF CARDBOARD. " Intentionally turning this into a No True Scotsman argument: True music consumers like to consume music... not pieces of vinyl wrapped in cardboard. In 2025 it seems most consumers seem to prefer pieces of vinyl wrapped in cardboard. Having the thing, rather than listening to or appreciating the contents of the thing.
  • yungporko 2y ago
    most? vinyl fans and audiophile placebo enjoyers are a very tiny percentage of listeners.