That post was carried over from another thread. It's been a long time since I did much ripping, but now I do recall that only certain ripping software worked this way. I do know that I can rip an other region DVD or BR using MakeMKV and a "neutral" ripping drive.
Once I found a solution, I...
Regarding region coding, my experience is as long as you don't play a disc in the ripping drive, which usually forces you to select a region for the drive, then you can rip anything and then play back the file. When the ripping drive isn't set for a region, it just treats everything like data.