[itake]

This situation makes me think of the video game industry and people recreating self hosted World of Warcraft servers by reversing the client code.

Blizzard was able to shut down the private servers.

https://github.com/mangoszero/server

https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/07/...

[taneq]

There are still plenty of active private servers running.