Kult of kewl
July 15, 2005 01:51 PM PST
I ran across this a while back, and thought it would be an interesting post. By Frank Zappa, it's a quick read, humorous, and very ahead of its time:
A PROPOSAL FOR A SYSTEM TO REPLACE
ORDINARY RECORD MERCHANDISING.
We require a LARGE quantity of money and the services of a team of mega-hackers to write the software for this system. Most of the hardware devices are, even as you read this, available as off-the-shelf items, just waiting to be plugged into each other so they can put an end to "THE RECORD BUSINESS" as we now know it.
Comments (3)
I read this some time back. It was pretty much technically impossible back when it was written, but very forward thinking. A good read.
This is an interesting online comic on micropayments for online music. Its pretty good:
I Can't Stop Thinking #6
I like that comic a lot. I don't agree that micropayments are this panacea. They basically go against the main principles the web was founded on, and the principles of altruism that he says drives filesharing today. I wrote a long comment, but I'll turn it into its own post.