the security stickers i really hate are those square white ones on the inside that have the rings of foil underneath. you try to peel them off and you take the top part, but are left with the adhesive part, which you have to carefully pull off using the metal imbedded inside which will invariably break half a dozen times before you manage to get the whole thing off. then you have to ball up the adhesive and use it to remove the little tiny pieces that didn't come off with the rest of it.

ughhh, what an incredibly awful invention.

I know the ones you're talking about, but I don't see those with DVDs that often. When I do see one, it will be stuck to a loose piece of paper so you just throw that out. They're more common with videogames. I do remember seeing them stuck to videotapes back in the day. The funny thing was that you were always expected to rewind the tape, but the security sticker (and the "be kind, rewind" sticker) would cover up the windows where you could see the tape progress.

Hostile?

Try this. You might try a cotton ball with a dab of lighter fluid....and rub it into the stickers and let stand for a few minutes...then peel. Maybe thats why I have yet to have stickers rip my case cover...maybe not. Works for me. Try nipping it in the bud, if you will.

I think if people were just a little more patient and prepped for it....it might turn out better. BTW, my copy of Nightmare Alley unwrapped like a champ, and I did not have to use any aids, thankfully.

once in a blue moon i get one attached directly to the keepcase. they're usually on older DVDs though, yeah.

once i got one that was half on the case, half on the insert.

It had something on it that you didn't see and boiling cleaned it. Residue from the factory or finger oils, whatever. Boiling isn't necessary, the 120 deg tap water works just fine for me.

It did NOT alter the chemical or physical state of the DVD plastic to make it "work better". If it had, it would most likely irreparably damage the disc. DVDs are not glued, they are essentially welded together with more of the plastic. I haven't tried to find the melting point of this particular plastic, but it is certainly above 212 deg.

They do seem worse lately as far as being more sticky. Even using a knife to cut them I've damaged the plastic a little un a couple of keep cases because it was stuck so well.

On my Goodfellas SE some of the shrink rap was stuck to the spine, haven't scrapped it all off yet. Don't know if it got melted somehow or what.

Luckily I'm not that anal about that kind of stuff, so none of it's a big deal to me.

I am waiting for Penn and Teller to do an episode of BS about sensormatic tags. Maybe season four. But I do think these things are utterly BS. First off, if they do work, most stores have policies against their employees chasing people out of the store if they set off the sensormatic at the door. And other stores have policies that state employees cannot go after a customer unless they actually saw them lift the product. The logic behind it is the merchandise is more replaceable than the person.

Additionally, most people who steal from stores will cut the case open and leave the DVD case laying there but pocket the DVD itself. There is no sensormatic sticker made to detect theft like that. The DVDs lay flat in a person's pocket and they go out the door unnoticed.

The sensormatic system has not deterred theft. I challenge anybody to find quantifiable evidence that it has (in other words, not "evidence" from people who can gain monetarilly by selling sensormatic security systems). The only benefit sensormatic security stickers has is for the people who manufacture these things. Other wise, they are pointless, and retailers are duped into paying good money to get security systems to detect things their own policies state they can do nothing about.

Same movie, bought from DDD. The plastic on the cover got thrashed when I pulled the top security sticker off--I've never had that happen before. I'm sure I could have gotten it off with more advanced prep but never having had this happen before (in over 1200 DVDs) I wasn't worried about it (actually, it seemed like the sticker was coming off fine--I didn't realize right that was the plastic cover was coming off with it.

It's still not too big a deal, I have a stack of extra cases.

I've killed a few DVD cases because of these stickers. I'd rather switch from the stickers to the security flaps on the DVD case themselves if it means not ripping the thin plastic covering.

Why in the hell does Criterion (and others) put those security stickers on top of their DVD cases? Those security stickers which are nearly impossible to remove and when finally are removed end up damaging the DVD case. I am so frickin sick and tired of spending top dollar for Criterion DVDs only to end up destroying the DVD cover. I am a loyal Criterion customer. I was in the mood to watch "Wild Strawberries" tonight. I struggled removing that stupid, worthless sticker on the top of the case. By the time I finally got it off, I had stretched and scratched the plastic cover (not to mention all the sticky residue). Needless to say, I am no longer in the mood for anything except for drinking and writing nasty e-mails to Criterion! PLEASE, remove those stickers!