Rather than legislate the current providers into a revenue box you compete with them. Collectively form your own cable company in a high-revenue market, and force the cable companies to innovate to protect their margins. As a collective you have the votes to compete in the political arena.

Forming "collectives" providing desired services for a large group is the origin of the farmer's collectives that ran grain silos at collectively acceptable prices. The same needs created the "populist" movements of Teddy Roosevelt and the Grange (http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h854.html).

Farmers started as fiercely independent freeholders who were being charged usurious transport fees in the late 19th Century. They eventually took collective action against the railroad barons (http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/163/farmers-the-populist...).

The similarities with highly individualistic entprepreneurs is striking. The modern railroad barons are the accesss providers. The farms are web sites in server "farms" throughout the world and the content must be delivered to the (mostly) urban centers world wide.

The troubles between farmers and railroads is recurring in Asia now (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870338900457530...).

The problem of course is regulatory capture (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Regulatory_ca...). The answer to this is, I noted above, "populist" movements are popular and can drive policy by petitioning the government. Should that not work then voting to change the government has worked in the past.

tl;dr - as was done in the 19th centry, form collectives to get product from the "farms" to the consumer.