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


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

billpar

4-16-2009 3:26 PM

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music, drm

billpar says:

"...Providing material in such quantity at a reduced cost could actually diminish the desire to duplicate and store it, since it would be available any time day or night."

- sounds like cloud computing idea in 1983.

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We propose to acquire the rights to digitally duplicate and store THE BEST of every record company's difficult-to-move Quality Catalog Items [Q.C.I.], store them in a central processing location, and have them accessible by phone or cable TV, directly patchable into the user's home taping appliances, with the option of direct digital-to-digital transfer to F-1 (SONY consumer level digital tape encoder),</DIV></I></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1294D8F9-5C98-4C90-9AC6-76C5799855D5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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