The FAA has approved 4 companies for commercial drone operations.

FAA approves four companies to fly commercial drones (http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/12/10/faa-drones-trimble-vdos-clayco-woolpert-amazon/20187761/)

So once again we have the government in the business of picking winners and losers.
I suppose this might work out, or it might stifle innovation and increase costs to the consumer

Considering that they issued the COA's for the MPAA five or so months ago, wow, they approved four whole companies in the past four + months.