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

This has been posted a few times over the years without much traction, but I shamelessly mimicked the title of some recent threads.<p>Zappa was apparently mostly interested in making record companies&#x27; 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&#x27;m not sure if there was ever any technical implementation conceived for this.

<i>&quot;MUSIC CONSUMERS LIKE TO CONSUME MUSIC . . . NOT PIECES OF VINYL WRAPPED IN PIECES OF CARDBOARD. &quot;</i><p>Intentionally turning this into a No True Scotsman argument: True music consumers like to consume music... not pieces of vinyl wrapped in cardboard.<p>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.