I just bought my BD copy of Walk the Line today, and as I was unwrapping the foil around the cover I warmed up my fingernail to remove the sticker on the cover that informs you that this BD will only play on a blu-ray player, or a computer with a blu-ray drive and Playstation 3. But there was no sticker on the case... hmmm so I pulled out the actual cover and warmed my fingernail again, and what did I NOT feel? Yes, the fricking "sticker" is actually printed on the cover! It really upset me alot.
First of all I hate ALL stickers on cover, they're the first to go when I buy a new disc. Second, since the rule says we scan the actual cover, and cannot alter the cover (photoshop the sticker away) It will forever be in the database, and most importanly on the actual cover.   
In my case, I will not buy a BD from that distributor anymore if they continue to print those lame stickers on the actual cover art. Damn I'm mad now.......

Quoting bentyman:

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I just bought my BD copy of Walk the Line today, and as I was unwrapping the foil around the cover I warmed up my fingernail to remove the sticker on the cover that informs you that this BD will only play on a blu-ray player, or a computer with a blu-ray drive and Playstation 3. But there was no sticker on the case... hmmm so I pulled out the actual cover and warmed my fingernail again, and what did I NOT feel? Yes, the fricking "sticker" is actually printed on the cover! It really upset me alot.
First of all I hate ALL stickers on cover, they're the first to go when I buy a new disc. Second, since the rule says we scan the actual cover, and cannot alter the cover (photoshop the sticker away) It will forever be in the database, and most importanly on the actual cover.   
In my case, I will not buy a BD from that distributor anymore if they continue to print those lame stickers on the actual cover art. Damn I'm mad now.......

Sony done the same thing with the men in black slip case for the US releases. Near ruined the the slip case getting the thing off.

I mean what's the point in having a slip case if all your going to do is put stickers on it's a waste. Should be on the wrapping nothing else.

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I throw away my slip covers, silly me...

What ever works for you.

Quoting goblinsdoitall:

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You have that problem with one distributor.
We have that problem with all of them, since they are forced by law to print the rating logo on the frontcover.
The now look like this:

This is one reason why i buy American. The government does not give a hoot about it's ppl so all age logos are tugged away on the back 

lol That and the wealth of content they have on Blu-ray.

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Quoting goblinsdoitall:

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You have that problem with one distributor.
We have that problem with all of them, since they are forced by law to print the rating logo on the frontcover.
The now look like this:

This is one reason why i buy American. The government does not give a hoot about it's ppl so all age logos are tugged away on the back 

lol That and the wealth of content they have on Blu-ray.

You do realize it's the MPAA ratings, right? Not the government.

So there not a body of the government and make there own laws?

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I have no idea what you are talking about. They don't make laws. They aren't the government. They are a business.

lol so your saying rather than the US government doing there job to ensure content being produced and distributed in there country is suitable.

A non profit business is in charge of policing it lol Exactly who's standards are they adhering to other than the wishes of major corporations?

Don't the government have some sort of say on what media content should and should not be made legal?

IANAL, but I am currently going to school to be one. Basically, the US government has no power to restrict content, with several caveats, none of which apply to regular movies.

You can't incite crimes, commit libel or slander (which are rather narrowly defined compared to other common law countries), violate copyrights or publish private, harmful information. Obscenity, which is a much narrower category than porn, isn't constitutionally protected but is not necessarily illegal. Child pornography is about the only thing that's just plain illegal. There are heavy restrictions on broadcast due to public ownership of the airwaves, but on the Internet or DVD, almost anything goes. Note that some of this is misleading. For instance, you can't actually be legally prevented from committing libel, only sued if you do so.

The MPAA is a voluntary ratings board. Most theaters won't carry movies without MPAA ratings, but this is essentially a trade organization thing. It has no legal force. Stores and movie theaters may enforce ID checks, but this is just because of parent complaints. They can't get sued or prosecuted if they don't. (Well, maybe false advertising if they claimed they did.)

As far as accountability, basically, if they lose credibility, no one will care about ratings and no producers will have reason to submit their movies and they are out of business. This in fact happened to the previous movie rating system and some similar systems in other media.

Quoting bentyman:

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Yes, the fricking "sticker" is actually printed on the cover!

Very annoying I agree; my brother recently had such a rant at books that do the same thing (he owns an independent bookshop) where some distributors printed a 'sticker' over a beautifully created cover with "Blah Blah Awards Winner" on it... very sad