http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/lion/index.html#d17aug2011
Gregory Weston
A MacInTouch Reader writes:
"A related item: I was given a pile of DVDs from the UK, and didn't want to change the regional code on my optical drive. DVD Player throws up a screen inviting me to change, and if I decline, the DVD ejects. If I ignore that screen, and quit DVD Player by using the dock, the disk stays mounted and VLC will play it. It sounds as if the regional coding is a setting in DVD Player these days, and not set in the firmware of the DVD drive."
No, it's still on the drive. It's just that VLC doesn't care.
I've heard that there are some drives that go a bit farther enforcing the region code, preempting ejecting wrong-region media without ever notifying the software of the mount attempt. If those are real (I have no firsthand experience of them) and you have one I'd guess you're out of luck.
You can, by the way, use System Preferences to make your machine not auto-launch DVD Player when a DVD is inserted.
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