That couldn&#x27;t be farther from the truth, unfortunately.  If they were trying to maximize profits, they would focus on  providing reasonable ways for everyone on the planet to give them money.<p>Instead, what production companies try to optimize is the funding used to create the content in the first place.  They sell the rights as many times as they can, in as many different markets as they can, in order to finance the production.  They are then required to enforce region restrictions to live up to the foreign distribution contracts they signed.<p>The fact that this ultimately results in <i>lower</i> profits hasn&#x27;t yet occurred to these idiots^H^H^H^H^H^H creative geniuses.  It brings in more cash up front, which appears to be all they care about.