dude, if i had any brains i would have linked you to these happy-sounding and utterly believable radicals yesterday. they are very very very involved in the diebold controversy as well, and their website contains a wealth of useful, scary information:
swarthmore coalition for the digital commons
it all seems bizarrely...connected...to me lately. just finished a policy brief for the NJ supreme court that talks about the economic implications of overbroad copyright, patent and (actual focus of the brief) knowledge-worker noncompete agreements. the economic implications are...bad! shocker!