[rasz]

>“Their market dominance has been ironclad because of their database: they have infrared codes for hundreds of thousands of devices, from brand-name TVs to random HDMI doodads on page fourteen of Amazon. For obvious reasons, they haven’t open-sourced this database.”

What stops someone from dumping this database?

>Since much of the Harmony software is cloud-based

still you could script a comprehensive query to copy everything.

Reminder: "Data that is factual has no copyright protection under U.S. law; it is not possible to copyright facts."