Copyright wars are damaging the health of the internet | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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However, even if microtransactions quintupled the amount of cash flowing toward the entertainment industry, I believe it would do nothing to calm the calls for greater censorship, greater surveillance, and greater control. Experimental psychologists have long documented pathological “loss aversion” – where we pay more attention to what we’ve lost than what we’ve gained. The entertainment industry is the poster child for loss aversion – how else to explain the groans and gnashing of teeth about piracy losses that attend each year’s glowing box-office numbers? “Sure, we made more at the box office than ever last year, but think of how much more we might have made if not for piracy!”
