They need to agree on the long term arrangement, and soon. If they don't, the game will be imperiled to a degree for a long period in the future.
As Carl Sagan used to say about the U.S. and U.S.S.R with regard to nuclear weapons: "It's like two sworn enemies standing waist-deep in a room full of gasoline arguing over how many matches they each have."
The analogy fits in that none of the vital participants are concerned with the health of the whole industry enough to have it impact their own profit motive, and that produces an irrational result.
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