> UK websites are collected and preserved under legal deposit legislation, which does not allow the Legal Deposit Libraries to make most archived websites freely available online.
Having the thing at all is valuable. The legislation provides a very limited exemption to IP law to allow archiving. Future legislators can work out how to loosen restrictions if its valuable to do so.
Sorry, my point being performing the archiving is the thing that must happen now or it is 'lost' forever.
Not providing wider access can be changed at any point in the future, so it is only 'lost' now.