crankymessiah wrote:
] ] When I mentioned in last week's column that I would this
] ] week be writing about a legal way to do a successful
] ] music downloading business -- a business that would
] ] threaten the Recording Industry Association of America
] ] and its hegemony -- dozens of readers wrote to me trying
] ] to predict what I would write. Some readers came at the
] ] problem from a purely technical perspective, ignoring the
] ] fact that the real issues here aren't technical but
] ] legal. Some readers took a legal approach, but they
] ] tended to ignore the business model. Some were looking
] ] solely for the business model. Interestingly, nobody
] ] even came close to my idea, which makes me either a total
] ] loon or a diabolical genius. Truth be told, I'm probably
] ] more of a diabolical loon.
] ]
] ]
] ] The reason I am even writing this column is two-fold.
] ] The biggest reason is simply because I would like people
] ] to consider lateral solutions to problems. I am pushing
] ] the concept of problem solving in a new way. There is no
] ] particular methodology here, just the underlying concept
] ] that if things aren't working the way you like, think of
] ] something different. Too often, people restrict their
] ] thinking or they somehow expect the world to change just
] ] for them, which it won't. But taking a lateral approach
] ] often yields interesting results. And once you've found
] ] an approach, maybe it can be applied to a different
] ] problem. What I am abo

did you see last week's column? look in Old Hat

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