I think a legal remedy here won't work. It can't magically produce money or desire to keep something runnable indefinitely. And any regulation that tries to compel work without payment seems like it will just hurt indie developers more.
These days, indie devs seem to be the only ones to still allow self-hosting of servers. Take for advantage New World Interactive (makers of Squad, Squad 44, etc). Their servers are self-hosted, though, there is an "official" license you can apply for given an application form. So there are dev "blessed" servers, but no centralization. It's what PC gaming should still be.