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OWNI spent the weekend at the Pirate Party International conference in Prague, where members reflected on progress that has outstripped even their own expectations. More electoral success in Germany and Austria is expected in the coming weeks.

Movies written in programming code = yes.

Josh Kimball’s blog curates those moments when our technology and social media gets unexpectedly existential all of a sudden.

Campaigners urging companies not to bid for a $10 million contract to build an Internet filtering system for Pakistan has met with some success. But with the deadline for bids passing today, several companies have yet to publicly respond.

On February 11 tens of thousands of Europeans took to the streets to voice their opposition to ACTA, currently awaiting ratification by the European parliament.

Arkitypo is a 3-D alphabet in which each letter explores the history of a particular typeface. Using a 3-D prototype printer, its creators were able to “print out” physical 3-D models of each letter based on digital blueprints.

In case you missed them first time round, and in no particular order, here are the 20 most read articles on Owni.eu this year. See you in 2012!

While Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won reelection last Sunday, their Soviet-style strategy of attempting to control online activism is increasingly being outwitted by crowd-sourced ingenuity, such as Golos’ map of election law violations.

This month a US judge ordered Twitter to hand over records for three of its users to the Department of Justice’s investigation into Wikileaks. The ruling has troubling implications for privacy online, as well as Twitter’s reputation.

On a farm in the midwest of America a group of scientists, engineers, farmers and DIY enthusiasts are creating the Global Village Construction Set – an open source, low cost, ecofriendly “toolkit for civilisation”.