Who is being disingenuous here?
You, if you either claim not to know what the "copyright cartel" is, or claim to be interested in copyright. Both cannot reasonably be true.
Why would they make a profit when anyone who does a quick google for what they're selling would find it for half price or even less from someone else?
Because they get the money up front, that's how this sort of thing works, you are not very smart.
But there's no competition from the "copyright cartel". They can't stop you from making your movie or distributing it.
Wow, you're staggeringly stupid. People aren't going to pay for movies up front when they have the option to pay for movies which have already been made, because they are too stupid to realize that in the current system, they're paying for movies that they're not even watching. That's called competition, boy. Here's a nickel, you don't need it to access dictionary.com.