From MaxConsole:

We have just heard that Nintendo has today lost a major court case against the Divineo group in the main court of Paris. Nintendo originally took the group to court over DS flash carts, however the judge today has ruled against Nintendo and suggested that they are purposely locking out developers from their consoles and things should be more like Windows where ANYONE can develop any application if they wish to.
The ramifications of this are huge, as it indicates that flash carts are actually legal. Moroever, it could have bigger implications for developers and the like because Nintendo is deemed to be ‘illegally’ protecting their system by locking users out. Therefore, developers should not actually require separate development kits and should just be able to develop applications as they wish on retail versions of Nintendo’s consoles.
And on a final note, this truly was a HUGE court case, up in the main court of Paris France and seems likely to be relevant to the whole of Europe.
Essentially, if people have to ‘hack’ the system and use Flash Carts to do develop, then it’s all fine because Nintendo has left them with little other choice and the system should not be protected in such a restrictive way.

I highly doubt Nintendo is just going to take this sitting down. In fact, it may spur them on to greater efforts to control the flash cart and homebrew community (regarding understandable yet insensible piracy claims). However, they may find the rulings difficult to contest in the future, and hopefully, other justices may use this as a precedent when the war is brought to their shores.

Source: http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=38047

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Graham believe this case to be the very first of its kind, yet will not identify the pub concerned, because the owner has not allowed him to reveal the details of the case yet.

This is just a start to some pretty serious issues that could begin to affect the idea of free WiFi – it's almost as if this was set up to crush the idea of freedom and being able to access WiFi anywhere. It's funny that someone would get punished for supplying the public with something free. Also, it's like arresting a shopkeeper because someone stole from their store. Doesn't work like that.

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Christopher Graham, investigator, and Information Comissioner

If you have T-Mobile, it’s likely some ad company has all your personal info.

That’s right – if you have T-Mobile, there’s a chance that your account data has been sold to a third-party, who participate in acts such as cold calling, text spam, etc. They didn’t just sell a few, they sold millions of user account details for large sums of money. This is an outrage on the highest level – a mobile operator who you trust, selling your personal details to someone you have no idea of, who cold-call you on the last month or two of your contract.

An investigation was conducted by Christopher Graham, after information of third-party dealings was in the talks, upon the mobile operators. O2, Orange, Vodafone, 3, and Virgin all reported innocence, T-Mobile stepped forward due to threats of prosecution and fines.

It’s shocking that something like this could have been allowed.

BBC tell us:

“Mr Graham, who was appointed earlier this year as the watchdog responsible for safeguarding personal information, said the data breach was the biggest of its kind.

He added that the case illustrated why there needed to be a prison sentence to prevent people from selling private data to third parties.”

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“Illegal movie download forces shutdown of free Wi-Fi”

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