Well, technically it is. Thats why the invented the region coding system, otherwise all disks would of been region 0. The following information is provided for entertainment purposes only. Author, or messenger assumes no liabiliy for actions commited therein. Any similiarites between persons alive or dead is purely coincidental. Now that's out the way
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/articles/region.html
Basically, it's a 3 step job.
1. Replace the firmware (the code on the chip inside your dvd drive), with a region free version.
2. Remove the region protection in Windows
3. Remove the region protection inside your DVD Software (download a patch)
I've never bothered. If I wanted to watch multi-region disks, I might of bought a region free DVD player, which might of cost me 80 quid from Amazon, which might also play DIVX and XVID files straight off the CD/DVD, which might be handy (If I owned one
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Edit: I suppose doing it isn't illegal, but playing a region 1 DVD in a region 2 area, must be?