I just burnt a copy of this after running it through the brickblocker and i just got a black screen. Could have been a bad burn because I have heard reports of this working on PAL so I will be interested to hear if anyone else has had any problems. I will try another burn tomorrow.
Edit - On further investigation, it would appear that the brick blocker does not work with this game. You basically HAVE to run the update on your system and PAL users will end up with 2 channels for news and weather which cannot be removed. Up to you if you think that it is worth it