Playing Region 2 DVDs....Will It Mess Up?

I recently learned that DVDs have to be in your own region to play it. Well, I'm in region 1 and there's a DVD I want to get that's in region code 2. If I buy the region 2 DVD, is there absolutely no way it would be able to play on my Macbook?

Download VLC it`s a region free .
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

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