Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Take a look at Frank Zappa’s “Proposal for a System to Replace Ordinary Record Merchandising” from 1983. Then read the transcript of his congressional testimony from 1985, in which he attacks a proposed “Blank Tape Tax.”
Either Zappa was 20 years ahead of the curve, or we’ve spent the last two decades running in circles.
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