Iraq readies for possible Internet crackdown

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Iraq has been undergoing tumultuous changes since 2003. Some of them have occurred on line. The first changes came with the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government, and its censors. Six years of Internet freedom followed. But now, Iraqi legislators are considering pulling in the reigns. Cyrus Farivar reports. Download MP3

• More information on Internet usage in Iraq
• Raed Jarrar’s blog
• OpenNet Initiative report on Iraq

Recreating pre-war Nagasaki in 3D, Ars Electronica 2009, and A Brief History of GPS Drawing

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On this week’s podcast, we’re off to Linz, Austria to hear about some of the exhibits at annual Ars Electronica Festival. One you can see here at left: that’s right, turn your own urine into fertilizer. If you like that one, wait until you hear the other story from Linz…Also, we hear about the 3D re-creation of pre-war Nagasaki, Japan. And we end with a brief history of GPS drawing, brought to you by listener Brett Stalbaum.

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Going after hi-tech piracy

Cyrus Farivar reports on a new type of political party that’s springing up in countries across Europe. The Pirate Party wants to reform intellectual property law in the cyber world, and membership is growing.
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Pirate Parties Go Global

The Pirate Party began in Sweden. Its political goals are to reform copyright and patent laws, and to campaign for citizen privacy, both online and in the real world. Now, the movement’s gone global. Cyrus Farivar reports. >>>Listen to the story

Helping Iranians bypass web censorship

Correspondent Cyrus Farivar reports on how technology activists around the globe are working to help Iranians bypass their government’s Internet censorship.
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Twitter confusion in Iran

Reporter Cyrus Farivar tries to sort out fact from fiction in the flurry of online communication coming out of Iran. Listen

EU Puts Hurt on Intel, Persian Bloggers on Saberi’s Release, Google Oceans Goes Deep, and SixthSense at MIT

This week, MIT’s SixthSense human-computer interface aims to the web, well, wherever you want it. Also, the European Union puts some financial hurt on chip-maker Intel. Persian bloggers weigh in on the release of journalist Roxana Saberi. And Google Oceans goes deep. Listen