This looked like a big story at first sight, but isn't so big when you read the small print. Warner Music has announced it will be selling music via MySpace's soon to launch Snocap powered download platform. That could have been big news because word had it the MySpace download service would only be selling DRM free MP3s. But it turns out they've made an exception for DRM obsessed Warner - so it's not as big a news story as it could have been.
The new deal with Snocap means Warner artists will be able to sell their music directly from their MySpace pages, rather than having to link to other download stores. However, the music will be made available as Microsoft WMA files with the 'Plays For Sure' DRM embedded. Which means, of course, that Warner music bought via MySpace will not play on the market leader iPod nor, for that matter, Microsoft's rival music player Zune which, as previously reported, and in one of the dumbest moves in the history of digital music (and let's not forget, there's been a lot of dumb moves), doesn't use Microsoft's much established 'Plays For Sure' DRM despite being a Microsoft player.