How to play region free?

I have a Macbook with a combodrive (the one that only reads dvd's and only burns cdr disks). But I import a lot of movies, can I make the drive region free or what kind of sotfware should I use if I switch a lot between movies with a different regions codes??? I don't want my drive to be locked on 1 region code after the fifth time... And where do I check how many times there are left to switch te regions code anyway?....
Thnx

Can you make the MacBook DVD drive region free?
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