As side-news, here's something crazy that happened to another private server group.
So first-off, there's Toontown House, another group with people trying to revive the game. Yesterday, they got hacked due to security issues, leaking all the users/passwords and replacing the front page image with research or something (didn't get to see it, thankfully). Fat McStink, a TTR dev, successfully fixed the problem and patched a new security defense on the site. After that mess, TTH had the balls to "put a virus" into the game, claiming it was joey who did it.
If you ask me, I think it just lost all credibility.