Michael Robertson, the founder of what was once the No. 1 music site on the web, is hoping for a comeback with a new online music store.
Michael Robertson, the founder of what was once the No. 1 music site on the web, is hoping for a comeback with an online music store that's scheduled to launch next week.
Robertson, now chief executive of desktop-Linux distributor Linspire Inc., plans to unveil MP3Tunes.com at the Desktop Summit conference in San Diego Feb. 10.
Like his original music site MP3.com launched in 1997, Robertson's latest creation, which he is funding with his own money, will offer music in MP3 format, without copyright-protection technology. For the consumer, that means the music can be played on any device that supports the standard and can be copied on an unlimited number of CDs.
Under those conditions, it's not surprising that none of the major record labels have licensed their music to Robertson. Instead, he has built a catalog of 200,000 tracks licensed from small labels and independent artists.
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