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I suspect that the driver behind region locking is instead a mix of differential pricing and high coordination costs. First-world consumers will pay more for a movie than third-world ones, so you can see why people would try to charge different prices. Global marketing is also an enormous pain; much easier for studios and distributors to divide things up by region and not try to coordinate global rollouts.

And I'm with you on the punctuation.

btw: "Popcorn Time-killer" is questionable use of punctuation.

I agree! The hyphen does not clarify any ambiguity in terms of ownership or meaning of the word killer, so no need for it. But I'm not a dictionary.

"Popcorn Time-killer"

Direct quote, not my writing. But I personally see the capitalized "T" signifying it's the product, not a generic time-killer.