Yahoo is now saying it will compensate, in some unspecified way, customers who were going to get screwed over with the closing of the Yahoo Music Store.

(The screwing came from the DRM-encased songs the company was selling. The songs wouldn’t disappear with the closing of the store, but Yahoo was basically refusing to spend the money to maintain the back-end technological component that would allow the customers to, say, move the songs to a new computer.)

Now, says a story in Information Week, the company is going to … well, do something:

Carrie Davis, spokeswoman for Yahoo Music, confirmed that the digital rights management servers would be taken down, severely limiting the use of the files. However, Yahoo did not intend to abandon its customers. “You’ll be compensated for whatever you paid for the music,” Davis told InformationWeek. “We haven’t said exactly what we will do, but we will take care of our customers.”

This is just for those who bought actual songs from the store. The subscription service is being merged with Rhapsody.

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Previously in Hitsville:

Another object lesson in DRM rights