On May 13, 2003, we spoke at a Copyright Office DMCA hearing to ask for
an exemption to allow archiving of software.
This page has some links to the software that is going away:
http://www.archive.org/about/dmca.php
and here is a piece in today's NYtimes about it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/19/technology/19ROT.html
-brewster