If you have a legal DVD Region X, then of course you shouldn't need to do the AR2 palaver to boot in a game via DVDRX.

Also EA games copied with CloneCD and a fully compatible reader/burner won't need any EA boot method. Just boot behinf DVDRX. If you've downloaded an EA game and have burned it with CDRWin and you have a v5 console, then Sony have caught up with you for now!