modding a console to play a different region game = piracy?

[Xen]

Naum said:
Hell no!

I modded my PS1, PS2 and GC to play NTSC games(had too how else was I supposed to play Xenogears? ) and also so I could have the game 6 month before the rest of us Europe people.

Actually, you just had it "before". Because Xenogears was never released in EU.