>Are you saying there's a fragment of law or
court cases that
>carve out exceptions to the copyright practices for
>"computer conservators"? 
The Internet Archive received such a fragment, IIRC.  I don't have time to look
at 
archive.org to verify but I distinctly remember 2 years ago the big
announcement that made it okay for 
archive.org to archive historically relevant
software.
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