Region coding is bullshit. It would be nice if more region one people gave a bit of moral support to the rest of us poor schmucks.
Personally I love my LG multi region player. You can hack it using the remote - the code is the first six digits of Pi.
It has an option to either select region zero (region free) or manually select any specific one of the eight regions worldwide. I've read that this manual region selection could get around RCE, but haven't had a chance to test it in practice.