EMI has announced a deal with SnoCap, the company created by original Napster boy Shaun Fanning, which will see the major's music made available via the digital music services that the US firm power, in particular the new MySpace download facility. Because SnoCap's download facility can be added to any blog or MySpace, it means EMI artists will now be able to add SnoCap powered sell-through to their own websites with minimum effort.
EMI are not the first major to sign up to SnoCap's MySpace music service - as previously reported, Warner Music signed up back in April. However, even though SnoCap originally said it would only be selling music via MySpace in DRM-free MP3 format, when it did the deal with Warner it backtracked on that commitment and agreed to sell that major's music only in the DRMed Microsoft Play For Sure format.
However, with EMI now making music available without DRM, it is able to sign up to the service originally intended by SnoCap, with means the MySpace pages of EMI signed artists will be able to sell DRM-free downloads directly from the page. As with all of EMI's DRM-free content, the music available will be in a better sound quality than standard download stores, but will retail for a slightly higher price.