The source isn't going to do much good without the brains behind it. If the source gets put out there without the folks who wrote this code, then the hollywood bastards will very quickly look at it, figure out how to break it, and even new DVD's rolling out won't be backup-able let alone Blurays.
I thought about all the arguments for the source to be released in the other thread. But without the very gifted team who built it, it'll just do more harm than good.
The solution as I see it is to get them back up and running somewhere where they can't be touched. MakeMKV is in Russia and hasn't been targeted from what I can find (yet). Although not sure Putin would care if Russia got put on a trade watch list or not (are they already)?
And sure, I hear you on the lifetime. But look, I've been here since 2004 I think? I got my lifetime and then some. I can understand someone who just signed up for lifetime not getting even a year. But if the servers are shutdown you are totally toast. Another $120 to DVDFab with a spotty track record? Nah. I'm not wild about paying again period. No one is. But if they don't rise again, you're going to have to pay someone else. So let's show support, and have them rise again cause they have proven exactly how well they can do this. And I think it needs to be profitable. So I think it needs to be like monthly or yearly. Like I said before, am I wild about paying it? Heck no. Will I? In a second. They've proven what they can do. This wasn't their fault. I think the timing of this with the UHD releases tells the tale. They were probably poised to break hollywood's newest encryption in a no time at all and hollywood wasn't about to have more egg on their already ugly faces.