My suspicion is that the people in power realized they'd lost a bottleneck, and are seeking to restore it. They don't like it when there are alternatives to dealing with the megacorps. They want to make sure people HAVE TO deal with them, so they can take some of the money away. That's a problem, especially when people are turning to crowdfunding because they've been shut out of the system or walked away having found it intolerable.