More downloading, and London based 7-Digital have reportedly secured Universal Music's DRM-free MP3 catalogue, meaning they can now sell DRM-free music from three of the four major record companies via their own download store at 7Digital.com - ie from EMI, Warner and Universal.
The firm have also announced a press conference for the week after next, and it's thought that might see the download company also add SonyBMG to their DRM-free list, meaning they would be the first UK service to offer music from all four majors without irritating digital rights management technology embedded.
Because don't forget, while all four majors had announced a strategic shift to consumer-friendly DRM-free music by the start of the year, no one UK download store is actually currently selling MP3s from all majors because, as we all know, it takes at least nine months for major record companies to get round to actually doing what they say they are going to do.
7Digital are also expected to announce an alliance with a social networking site. Whether this means they have an involvement in the soon-to-launch all-new MySpace Music I don't know. I hope not, because I was very dismissive when a friend suggested that was going to happen the other day, and I'd hate to have to admit I was wrong.