Michael Robertson is putting up some of the money he made from MP3.com to launch a startup, MP3tunes, next week in San Diego.
Unlike Apple’s iTunes, Yahoo!’s Musicmatch or most other services that sell downloadable songs, MP3tunes will use the popular music file format MP3 without any encrypted “digital rights management” features that restrict how the file is used.
Robertson said songs will sell for 88 cents; albums will cost $8.88.