If enough cable companies drop this network, economics will force them to lower their prices. Advertising dollars is where networks make their money. If the number of homes receiving a network falls dramatically, sponsors will follow, and start pulling their advertising dollars. This would force Fox and other networks to rethink it's price increase if they want to survive. Then maybe Time Warner would adjust their pricing to a more reasonable rate. The only channels that should have to be paid for are the movie channels that don"t have advertising.