
MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson has attacked his ad-funded music rivals, and specifically their business model. “It”s just simple math that you can”t make enough with ad banners and click-through keywords to pay a penny per song. Simple math, ask anybody who knows Internet advertising. Somebody sits there, listens to 20 songs, the royalties pile up with each tick of the clock.” For once, he”s not going out on a limb with his views.