You are not familiar with what a server restoration means, but it is not your fault. The server that hosts DragonsHoard was activated a few days ago, and DHDC was restored in its more than one-month status. This is because I restored the server, but DHDC's admin is dragon_lord and not me, and unfortunately, due to some permission settings that I didn't manage to set correctly yesterday (now they're okay fortunately), he was unable to update the files.
The other alternative would have been to keep DHDC closed until it's updated, but then it would have been unavailable, and many up-to-date versions would have remained unavailable to users. Many users sent emails asking about DHDC and about when it will be back.
But it seems you're not getting the point either. So here are some more accurate details, really just to make it clear for those who are interested in this boring topic. So you say that they 'decline permissions.' We ask for no one's permission, we put up mods if the author contacts us and asks so. Sometimes we contact the authors of promising mods who don't know about the DHDC possibility, and ask if they want their mod to be supported by DH. The 'permission scandal' was the same: those files were hosted by our fast server which got permission from the users through TheWizard (He wrote this in his email, i.e. that he asked authors and he is sure they don't mind it if their works will be mirrored by Black Wyrm Lair). I thought it was impossible to ask so many authors, but then I thought I would trust him and won't question him about it. Then TheWizard wanted to receive all donations to his pocket (including the ones that were offered directly to our server and which we could use to pay a part of the server costs) and he wanted to divide how much we should get, and we didn't agree. Then we splitted, and we thought that since mods have been hosted on the server, why not to keep them, since authors don't mind their mods mirrored by BWL(thewiz's email) plus it will be the SAME server as before, just with faster connection and another name.
As soon as this happened, TheWizard basically denied his email and said the permission was connected to his name and started his manipulation campaign, and managed to misled lots of naive internet visitors and many others as well. From this point, my previous post describes everything that followed the split.
Except a few misled modders, victims of manipulation, no one 'denied' permission. In fact, certain users assured us that they want their mods to be mirrored there.Additionally, if you're disappointed with DHDC, it's okay, please don't use it then. It's a possibility only. (Anyway, those players who prefer DHDC, will certainly wait for it to be updated even if iegmc has the newer version, because it will be updated on DHDC before the download from iegmc would finish.)
All in all, everyone is free to choose a download mirror. Fortunately we feel that our efforts with DHDC are not in vain, because we have got several congratulations from players, and many thanks emails from mod authors. but the huge amount of downloaded data is what really represents the usefulness of this mirror; and we're happy that we can bring these great works to players.