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Only movies with an old "FSK18" rating before 2003 can be put on index, but now even movies with an "Keine Jugengefährdung" can't. Only "SPIO/JK" rated movies and those old "FSK18". But you can also read the law in JuSchuG §18 Absatz 8. Movies, which were rated by FSK can't be indexed.

Second time a thanks for the correction. My law book JuSchuG says the same.
But this seems very strange for me, because this are different parties that rate a movie and that decide if it gets indexed. So even if a movie would get indexed, it could not get indexed because of an existing FSK rating?!    German law! 

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They didn't accept the rating "not rated" because in America for eample, now as I know from comments here, that not rated doesn't mean for adults only. Actually just in Germany it is. And "porno" is in the original language version (english) the genre for "adult". And I think the German language version should be overworked in this case... or the knowledge of screeners about ratings in Germany...

But know it got accepted with no change of the rating. That's what looks a bit strange to me. If we would know what changed the decision, we would know what to do to get the correct rating into a profile.
Just for clarification, I've no problem to give porn movies the Adult rating, but I need clarification what should be entered with wich rating. (If it is because of international reasons)

Edit: Should read the op better.    Adult for rating or Genre. Does both lead into the same filtering? Still a bit strange imho. And if someone could clear me up I would be thankful.

I think "not rated" is no rating for adults, but "Keine Jugenfreigabe" is (there isn't a rating called "adult"!). In America a not rated movie could be for teenagers or something like that (as you can read in the comments a few posts ago), so screeners don't see "not rated" not as an adult movie. And "adult" doesn't exist in the genres of the German language version, there it's called "Porno". Hope I could explan it understandable.

In the US, not rated means not rated.  It could be an adult porno film, unrated director's cut of a mainstream movie, or children's cartoon.  So obviously we do not want to automatically lump not rated with adult films.

Thanks xradman and MassL for the replies.  This was something I was aware of.

But my main question remains: How should I threat the rating for German DVDs to have it correct and acceptable for the database.

Is Adult just porn or does it also mean Just suitable for adult?
If it is not just porn: Is the decision if it is Adult based on the German ratings/law? ...

I must be missing something, because as I remember the film Ilsa--She Wolf of the SS it would hardly meet what I call "porno."  Soft-core, maybe, but no worse than, say, Bluebeard with Richard Burton, et. al., and a lot tamer than other explotation films that aren't classified as "adult" in the database.  There's a lot more reason to shield the young minds from the violence in the film than the sexual content.

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we probably won't have much hope of getting it changed. 

It will never change, so the best way to deal with it is to not contribute those films since it looks like it's the only way to make a point here... Sure it is sad for those who collect those films (wich are not in the database for the majority of them), but I prefer to keep my works for myself than being insulted by a screener who had never seen the film and judge it arbitrally...

What I meant was the screeners have made an assumption about the content of the film based on the cover, the cover itself is not explicit but it is a bit salacious (if that's how you spell it). The cover itself is not adult, I've seen much more explicit ones in the average dvd store. Apologies if I gave the wrong impression.

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What I meant was the screeners have made an assumption about the content of the film based on the cover, the cover itself is not explicit but it is a bit salacious (if that's how you spell it). The cover itself is not adult, I've seen much more explicit ones in the average dvd store. Apologies if I gave the wrong impression.

How do you know the screeners made an assumption?  From everything I have read, this could be considered 'soff-core' which, unless I have missed something, qualifies as 'adult'.

I honestly don't get what the big deal is here.  There are things, in Profiler, that I don't care for.  For those things, I contribute based on the rules, then change it local.  If I don't want to do that, I simply don't contribute.  For profiles that I download, I change them once I get around to auditing them.  I don't know why it has to be any harder than that...I really don't.

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Plus... I always thought it was based on the DVD content... not on only what is on the cover. The soft core stuff is still adult oriented.

That's the question: What is Adult for DVDP purposes? With that information, we could discuss much better.