We're seeing more and more of this on this side of the Atlantic, where you are by government mandated to do business with certain parties (at prices you have no say in ), are forbidden to do business with other parties and in general are expected to be a good little consumer from the day you're born until the day you die.
The MPAA is one of the worst excesses of this in the public eye, but there are a great many more of them that are much better at keeping a low profile.