Zennstrom and Friis first hit the music scene in the early 2000s for developing Kazaa, the file-sharing service that was accused of violating copyright in a lawsuit filed by the top music labels.
According to a story in The New York Times, Rdio will charge subscribers $5 to $10 monthly for unlimited music.
The service will supply those customers paying top dollar with streaming music accessible on a host of Web-enabled handsets, according to the Times. Rdio appears to be among a new wave of music services that are rushing into the gap left after ad-supported services began collapsing.
Kazaa founders to launch subscription music service
Posted on Friday, June 04 2010 @ 0:00 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckCNET reports Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, Kazaa and Joost, have introduced a new music subscription service called Rdio.
