It's Not Easy Being Green

In reference to contest prizes being a problem, actually it is. To use your example of getting a DVD, for one thing, every world region has a still has a different DVD format. US DVDs will not work in Australian players, or vice versa. On top of that, films and DVDs very often have different distributing companies on various continents. If the people running such a contest to get, for instance, free movie passes or a DVD or whatever only have a deal with their country's distributor, then yes, it is very much a legal problem.

As for the rest, us yanks are sometimes as limited as you are. I've been a fan of various British and Australian actors over the years. You have no idea how much money I paid to get a US version of a very old Heath Ledger film no one has heard of in the US to this day, and that was ten years before he died. Hell, Billy Boyd is considered washed up and gone, a one hit wonder for playing Pippin in LOTR by the US entertainment media. They can't be bothered to look up that he went home and pumped out another several British films no one can get a hold outside of Europe.

In short, you aren't the only ones who want stuff we can't have. It's not the American fan's fault, it's the suits on high who count the money.