Harmy said:
Yeah, it's kind of funny that we're having this heated debate about something that covers about 2% of two frames :-)
In the "No" camp's defense, though, it is very visible. I think, for me, I was looking at this project as the unofficial 'official' release of Star Wars... the pristine version of the film which, while not commercially available, met commercial blu-ray standards. As such, I didn't expect there to be incidental artifacts left in. If such a thing were present on a commercial blu-ray, I'd be pretty surprised it made it past quality control, and no way would I assume it was intentionally left in.