The EULA also prohibits using Nightshade “for any commercial purpose”, so arguably if you make money from your art—in any way—you’re not allowed to use Nightshade to “poison” it.

It’s similar, but JavaScript would use : and , for separators rather than = and ;.

This is valid Lua table syntax, however. A program creates an embedded Lua environment with an item callback function and runs this file inside it. Something similar could be done to convert it to another format; just define item to output the data as JSON, or whatever other format you prefer.

The Prosody XMPP server, written in Lua, generates files of this type when serializing lists with the “internal” storage manager. See functions list_store and list_load in util/datamanager.lua.