(01-14-2016, 10:33 PM)sciurius Wrote:(01-14-2016, 08:57 PM)BRX Wrote: I still believe there shouldn't be legal problems for "reversing" irealpro code. It's plain text, not crypted and certainly not intended to protect content.
An iRealPro 'song' (or playlist) is an URL. The song data in it is scrambled to protect it from prying eyes. Descrambling data that is explicitly scrambled to prevent snooping is, as far as I know, prohibited under the DMCA.
Well, I'm not sure if you can call it even scrambled and it's done to protect the content. You could also argue it's kind of like html tags which are used to display the content in the browser.
Anyway, iRealPro seems to have a laissez-faire attitude at least as far the realbook app from skrivarma soft is concerned (or they gave permission). I can't imagine they don't know about it.