Well I live in South Africa, which is region 2. Every single DVD I own is Region 1. All you have to do here is tell the store your buying the player from to make it Region free (if it isnt already). You also need a Tv thats PAL/NTSC compatible.

I don't think region coding is affects piracy, its just a nuisance if you don't have a region free deck/dvd-rom.

I have also heard that some of the later Babylon 5 NTSC releases are region free.