Several corrections and (perhaps unjustified) comments:
I wish people would stop calling copyrighted material "intellectual property". They aren't the same thing. Copyright is a subset of intellectual property, and not necessarily subject to all the same rules and connotations that any other type of IP might be.
Strange Famous is obviously a socialist. Since this is not a politics thread, I'm going to keep my political opinions out of it.
EFF is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and they are at
http://www.eff.org/ ... I should know since I've been to their office in San Francisco.