Christians can try to ban Facebook in the Vactican

Because you should only take software developers serious that have a beard.

If Opera gets rejected, they can start a discussion on how closed app markets may be. The EU might get interested and create a nice set of rules that allows Opera to get in each app market that sells in the EU, if Opera actually ships a good product.

Apple has a monopoly on their own platform. It is a nice gamble of Opera, if Apple accepts it then they are on the Iphone platform. If it is rejected, then it will be a landmark case on how the EU will react.
The EU will eventually come with rules anyway. If a company creates an app for the Iphone and Apple decides to create a similar app and removes the competing app, then it is a matter of time before such a company will ask the EU to put up rules against such behavior. This does not only apply to Apple, but for each company that runs an app store.

You mean WRC rally driver. Jutta Kleinschmidt won the Dakar rally and just as successful of even more successful than Mouton. The Dakar rally is harder and more rallying (no closed down roads) than the WRC and winning the Dakar is quite an achievement.

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.