OK, just so we're clear here:
Just so much now: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/research-bought-then-paid-for.htmlMore later today, meatspace intervenes. In the meantime, please read Mike Taylor's post a third time; it explains in quite some detail the fact that _we_ are the hand that feeds _them_, the publishers, not the other way around.
I appreciate your point that it's not Elsevier alone. I was wrong in not making that clear enough.