IRD Library Down, what now?

I could be speaking out of my butt here, but as i understand it, the only way to produce and ird file is to obtain what is now an almost impossible CD drive that you have to hard mod into your ps3. Its difficult to get your hands on due to the fact that the people who were making them (3K3Y) are no longer an active part of the community. With no way to obtain new IRD file, having a request system would be pointless since all IRD files that have been created are there.

This could not be true anymore, admittedly, im playing a game right now that had no IRD file but one of the devs managed to pop one out for me using some black magic f******. To my knowledge though, this method hasnt been adopted or used, and IRDs remain grid locked.