Now what...?

Region code setting on DVD player is inexplicably annoying… I unconsciously<--not good word. Because you are conscious. Maybe you are unaware? overreached the number granted to convert the region code on the DVD player of my laptop and it has permanently locked so that it will not permit me to change again ever… I have been doing ample research in order to find out the any free-charged method to watch screening of the remaining DVD of chapters of DVD, which I bought recently, but there seems no way out unless purchasing a new software or supplemental DVD player… I even made an attempt to hack the firmware to let it be compatible in order to rewrite region code accordingly, but it didn’t work out… If only it was locked with the North America’s region code, I could continue on watching the intriguing American dramas… Drat<--?What is that?, I really don’t want to buy paid  a software for the sake… damn