"Karl J. Runge" wrote:

> What are the legal implications to reverse-engineering their format and
> making our own clients and servers?

Programmers giveth, and the DMCA taketh away. It's illegal. DeCSS was
designed for completely legal compatibility reasons, but it was
outlawed because it threatened the license revenue of the MPAA.   
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