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> songs purchased through Apple’s iTunes music store—which restricts playback to a handful of computers

This is not true. If you download songs through Apple Music, then they are protected m4p, but if you purchase music, the files are unprotected m4a and play in other software like Traktor or in CDJ's without any problem.

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Though if I'm not mistaken the unprotected m4a still contains a "digital watermark" (i.e. metadata with your iTunes account info) which this article claims would become illegal to remove.

It contains a tag, not a watermark.

In the US that may be the case, but in Canada purchases from iTunes are still DRMed.

[edit] - nope, sorry, I'm wrong. Assumed it was still there because I recently got a new machine and had to "authorize" it to play my iTunes purchases. The files, however, play in any audio player, so I guess it's a soft drm?

Videos are still DRMd, as is all the Apple Music stuff (the new streaming service).

So really, only music is DRM free and you can buy other stuff from Apple.

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