links for 2008-06-21

• MPAA Says No Proof Needed in P2P Copyright Infringement Lawsuits | Threat Level from Wired.com
  "The Motion Picture Association of America said Friday intellectual-property holders should have the right to collect damages, perhaps as much as $150,000 per copyright violation, without having to prove infringement."
  (tags: copyright IP law internet)
• Publius Project - David Weinberger: Tacit Governance
  "When governing bodies look at the Internet, they see its unruliness. But most of the swirl of the Net is in fact governed by rules so deeply implicit that even to surface them would disrupt the creative social work underway."
  (tags: netgovernance law internet freespeech)
• Global Voices Online » China: Is the West afraid of our patriotism?
  "Novelist-blogger and researcher of worldly affairs Yang Hengjun moves on from ‘How did America cover up the truth of the bombing of our embassy in Yugoslavia?' to his post last week, ‘Are Western countries afraid of the Chinese people's patriotic fer
  (tags: nationalism olympics china)