DRM removal was a nice gift indeed, not that it affected me though(downloadable version). At the moment the Clowns aren't actively playing A2 as a group, but you'll find me on
Tacticalgamer's servers. You need to register on the forums there to get access to TS, but other than that no commitments are necessary.
On another note ACE2 is out now, currently at version beta2, and Arma2 is pretty well patched up so maybe it would be a good time to revive the Clowns?