So for those that are having this issue, is this something that a Play 
Store update will fix? 

On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 8:35:29 AM UTC-7, Nikolay Elenkov wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:02 PM, seattleandrew 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > It looks like Google has temporarily pulled the .apk encryption feature. 
> > Users were reporting problems of legitimate play store purchased apps 
> from 
> > being able to run possibly due to a bug in Jelly Bean that didn't handle 
> the 
> > decryption properly. Users who now re-download apps will download an 
> > unencrypted version of the app until Google can resolve the issue, 
> probably 
> > with an OS update. 
> > 
> > Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/08/android_drm_disabled/ 
> > 
>
> This is not exactly accurate, at least not for Google Play 3.7.15. It 
> appears 
> it only skips forward locking for apps with widgets and accounts, most 
> probably those that request to be installed only on internal storage. 
> Other paid apps are forward locked (encrypted) as before. 
>
> Here's some proof :) 
>
> # vdc asec list 
> 111 0 com.outfit7.talkingpierre-1 
> 111 0 com.outfit7.talkingtom2-1 
> 200 0 asec operation succeeded 
>
> # ls -l /data/app|grep -i beaut 
> -rw-r--r-- system   system    6046274 2012-08-06 10:45 
> com.levelup.beautifulwidgets-1.apk 
>

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