Region Coding limit prevents Mac owners traveling abroad from using DVD

I have a friend from the US that travels, works and lives in the US and UK. She has a current Macbook and when she is in London, a DVD bought there brings up the 'Set DVD region' message. This tells her she can only change the region code 5 times before it is stuck on the last one.
This is truly dumb. Windows doesn't do this and she just 'switched' to Mac, not knowing that the Macbook was so limited.
Is it possible to ask Apple for a software or firmware fix so that a Macbook owner that travels internationally can actually use legitimately purchased regionally coded DVDs without their Macbook going toast?

you've posted in the iDVD section of this board, which is an iLife app to create 'homebrewn' DVDs.. not the DVDplayer app.-..
... This is truly dumb. .. Is it possible to ask Apple for a software or firmware fix so that ...
ask the Movie Making Industry to get rid of region-coding.. an 'out of the box' Windows has the same limitations, but for sure, there're zillions of 'hacks' which override that protection.. illegally, just to mention that.

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