No, traditionally a city became an official city after it did receive city rights. These city rights were issued by the monarch or bishop.

Lego normally only had weapons that were more then 100 years old, like the pirate guns.

When I look at the game Armadillo Roll for Android, I must say that the frame rate is no problem. I was actually quite surprised that my HTC Hero could produce such graphics.

I didn't know that saying no to being bought by Microsoft did count as trolling.

But it is still strange that Brein gets TPB banned in the Netherlands with the argument that TPB is convicted in Sweden, while the site is still up and running in Sweden. If TPB is allowed in Sweden to run the site until their appeal of the case, I would say that in the rest of the EU the site keeps running as well.

I wonder if TPB wins their appeal in Sweden, whether this Dutch conviction needs to trashed.

Something says you only read 1 line from the parliamentary report on copyright. One of the end proposals of the parliamentary copyright committee is that the industry switches to a licensing system and that customers buy a license for usage and download the media in whatever format the customer wants. If that system gets adopted, then the government ants to start punishing illegal downloading (thus without license of usage). The group also argued with such a system the levy on blank media will be abolished.

Why am I responding to an AC? Well I did read the report and it was not bad. The committee actually has a good idea about the problem. However getting the proposals to work, both technically and juridically is something that they have to work on.

You are a bit off with your example.

The EC would start protesting if BMW sells its cars to customers and with buying the car the customer also has to buy the BMW maps, bags, or whatever item they can but their brand on. Only BMW would not present it this way, you just pay more for the car and get the rest for "free".

The EC has ruled that a browser is a separate part and therefore you should separately buy the OS and the browser.

Well, the EC has not made any demands yet on the issue of bundling browsers with Windows 7. So it is not possible to answer your question with a yes or no.

The EC tells what the rules are if a company wants to sell on the European market. It happens with more then just software, the same applies to cars, electronics, etc.

The EU hasn't decided to remove IE from Windows 7, it is a move by Microsoft. The EU has not yet made a decision on how to deal with the misuse of the Windows monopoly on the browser market. With the Media player verdict of the EU, nothing actually changed and Neelie Kroes will probably come with a solution for the browser market that actually works. By the way, if Microsoft has the opinion that selling an OS without a browser is not an option, they still have the option not to sell Windows 7 in the EU at all.