Frank Zappa on music distribution in 1983

In 1983 Frank Zappa wrote:
> 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), Beta  
> Hi-Fi, or ordinary analog cassette.

See  
http://www.zappa.com/cheezoid/whatsnew/world-news/FZ-Proposal/ 
index.html for the rest of his gently amusing, prescient article.  
Ironic given his estate's current reluctance to distribute his music  
online.
-- 
Michael