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Looking at Redbox's website, it looks like you have to buy a physical thing containing the code and pick it up at the box. I assume directly telling you the cod
by Buge 9y ago
Looking at Redbox's website, it looks like you have to buy a physical thing containing the code and pick it up at the box. I assume directly telling you the code digitally would be more legally troubling.
- ROFISH 9y agoThey shuck thousands of videos bought at hundreds box stores. It’s just faster and easier to put the code slip in the machine the same time as the disc rather than type all the codes by hand and maybe get it wrong. Bonus points for that slip having redemption instructions.
- adanto6840 9y agoThe order explicitly rejected RedBox's argument that they're "merely selling a piece of paper" -- the judge basically said the paper and the code printed on it has zero value, the value is entirely in the fact that the code unlocked the copyrighted material. As such, it'd presumably be identical to sell the codes digitally vs physically, in the court's eyes.