Nokia, EULA, Cybercrime & Swine Slaughter

The NSW department of Fair Trading has begun preliminary investigations into allegations that Nokia Australia has been selling mobile handsets with faulty displays.

If you find yourself paying for bundled proprietary software and don't actually install it, you can legally resell it no matter what the End-User License Agreement says. That's what Judge Dean D Pregerson wrote in his 'Order Re: Application For Preliminary Injunction' in the case of Softman vs Adobe.

A little-noticed provision in the new anti-terrorism act imposes US cyber crime laws on other nations, whether they like it or not. And in related news, thirty countries signed a controversial international treaty to combat online crime last week. Representatives of 26 Council of Europe member states, plus the US, Canada, Japan, and South Africa, put their signatures on the document at the international Convention on Cybercrime meeting in Budapest.

The annual pre-xmas swine slaughter in a south-western Hungarian village came to a shocking end on Saturday after one man died of electrocution while trying to stun a pig, whose owner then died of heart attack.