Michael Robertson, Bad Boy of the Digital Music Industry

Michael Robertson is a longtime provocateur of the music business
and is the founder and former CEO of MP3.com, one of the most
popular Internet music sites ever. Robertson also launched
several small start-up companies, including Linspire, SIPphone,
MP3tunes, and Ajax 13. Robertson’s newest startup, DAR.fm is a
centralized Web-based TiVo (TIVO) for radio, users can go to
DAR.fm to search the programming schedules of over 600 music and
talk-radio stations and schedule the site to record up to 4 hours
of any broadcast. Michael Robertson sees this as the answer to
the death of radio, "Radio is dying because it's inconvenient and
limiting. The content is not interactive, and it's available on
only a limited number of devices." The man who has fought more
high-profile battles with the record industry than anybody in
technology, and whose experience in digital music is nearly
unmatched, has never appeared more prescient. Over his career
Michael Robertson has raised more than $100 million in private
capital and orchestrated transactions with a combined value of
nearly a billion dollars. Fasten your seatbelts; this is an
interview you definitely need to hear.