2018-06-14, 17:54
(2018-06-14, 16:16)keith Wrote: I've reached out to some folks I personally know over at Crunchyroll to get some clarification and was told this:Well, the API key is hardcoded as string into the binaries of the apps.
Quote:I imagine it was the client key that was grabbed from a client; and the takedown on github was requesting it to be removed.
Will ask internally if we can’t do something about it; would be nice if we had resources to build a more robust open API support for these sort of projects.
"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes it illegal to circumvent controls that prevent access to copyrighted material."
Specifically, look at https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/revers...g-faq#faq8
And they could consider an API key 'technology protection measures'. It's an unfortunate use of the law, but it seems it's on their side.
You can just open it with a text editor and read the key in plaintext.
When Crunchyroll says that this is a protection measure, I'm sure passwords are saved unencrypted