The copyright laws will change, or the industry will go bankrupt.
Western nations are looking at 10 years of stagnation, there will never be a demand for the media products at the current cost levels.
Until the media and hardware manufacturers can adjust to this reality, they will continue to buy politicians and purchase their monopoly in the legal system while holding the cultural traditions of our societies hostage to their oligarchic rentier class tactics...
The number of cable television subscribers declined YoY in June for the first time in the history of the country. This trend will continue indefinitely for the next decade.
HDCP was the last bulwark before the media companies demand a Communist China and Iranian style mandatory internet backbone censorship network installed by Cisco and Siemens.
They'll have to go bankrupt before it changes. Until then they'll keep buying off legislators and sitting in on copyright treaty negotiations (to the exclusion of non-corporate interests thanks to substatial campaign donations) to make sure the laws tip even more in their favor.
You missed the last stage: once their attempts to pass ever more intrusive copyright protection laws fails to keep them afloat, they will have the federal government subsidize big media.