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Nope.. Same is true of those game sites that archived old ROMs, also gone forever.
They have to be somewhere.
Some datahoarder probably has an offline copy.
Yea I hope so, but at the same time I would like to see this archived in a proper way. Meaning that there must also be an exception in the law to allow archiving of old software/games/....
Sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/let-readers-read-an-open-letter-to-the-publishers-in-hachette-v-internet-archive And this petition: https://www.battleforlibraries.com/
Archiving might be allowed even now, but not with a public download library.
As far as I know, it isn't illegal to attain or have media for personal use. It is illegal to circumvent DRM and to distribute the media.
So, for example, it isn't illegal to record a stream. But the hoops you'd have to jump through in order to do so would end up circumventing DRM or with incredibly poor quality.