Agreed. Honestly from a feature implementation perspective there's more business logic required to take this approach and I don't think it would behoove any pro

Agreed. Honestly from a feature implementation perspective there's more business logic required to take this approach and I don't think it would behoove any programmer to come up with these restrictions. If I had to hazard a guess the arbitrary nature of these rules sound like they come from someone in the legal department and was established as part of contract negotiations for the price of the content.