From here, via nwhyte, burkesworks, pickwick, purplecthulhu and others:

On Monday, July 7, 2008 the EU intends to sneak through a law to clamp down on file-sharing. If it gets passed, you could end up being disconnected from the Net for ever if your ISP decides you've been file-sharing.

You weren't supposed to know about this.

They buried these laws inside a huge package of other telecoms legislation, slipped it out the day before the EU breaks for the summer, and hoped nobody would notice. Most MEPs won't even have a chance to read this legislation before they have to vote on it.

Their stealth tactics could still work, unless we act now.

Right now.

The most informative, yet easily understood, article on the subject is here.

Write to/E-mail/phone your MEP *today* (if you're in Yorkshire and the Humber like me, ours is Diana Wallis - diana@dianawallismep.org.uk), and hope that they read their mail on Sundays or Monday mornings. UK residents not in Yorkshire can do it through Write To Them. It's not like you have anything better to do on a Sunday, is it?

Pass it on.

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In other news, I will be doing a proper review of the season finale for Who and posting it to dw_academy later on. I don't expect it to be all hearts and flowers...