Rod Underhill is an attorney and author who has written books about the Internet and MP3 technology and who was also a founder of MP3.com. His books include “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to MP3” and “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Millions on the Internet”, each written with Nat Gertler .
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Rod Underhill was born on October 7, 1953 and practiced law in California from 1980 until 1998, when he cofounded MP3.com where he served as the Founding Music Director.[1] A musician, his album “Science Friction,” released internationally as an attachment to his book on MP3 technology, was the first all MP3 format CD released by a major publisher in the world and resulted in his induction into the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences .[2]
Since leaving MP3.com, Underhill has served as a law professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and in 2008 was awarded a Webby Award (People's Voice Award) for his work as cofounder of Podlinez.com.[3] Underhill also serves as a senior advisor to nimbit [4] and Chrometa.[5]
"Rod Underhill and Michael Robertson are two men who went through enormous effort several years ago to hide and censor the truth concerning the earnings of numerous MP3.com artists when it was in its Golden age..."