At this point I'd say it's more the situation that the industry has consolidated into few enough companies (WB/HBO/Discovery, Disney, Paramount, Comcast(NBC/Uni

At this point I'd say it's more the situation that the industry has consolidated into few enough companies (WB/HBO/Discovery, Disney, Paramount, Comcast(NBC/Universal), Netflix, and Apple) that they're able to easily price fix. The problem is that just 6 companies own the rights to basically the entirety of American film culture outside of some tiny niches. This is worse than going back to cable. We're almost all the way back to the Old Hollywood studio system, where different studios had different theaters they owned and almost nobody else was allowed to show their studio's films.