When APPLE announced last week that its iTunes store would begin selling DRM-free tracks (lacking their usual Digital Rights Management software) online for a slightly higher fee than normal tracks, they somehow managed to avoid telling the public that while the tracks would no longer come with the playback restrictions that come with the normal iTunes songs, all purchased songs & movies would still come encrypted with the purchaser’s name and email address and other marking tags on file with Apple. That means DRM-free songs purchased from Apple that get picked up by other users will be traceable back to the original purchaser by any remotely computer-savvy user. The fear here is that if someone (more…)