Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Stanley Levco has sent letters threatening legal action against retailers providing space to Redbox and MovieCube kiosks. The problem? According to Levco, automated kiosks don't have enough safeguards preventing minors from renting material that could theoretically harm them.
Limiting kiosks' selection to only G-rated movies certainly limits their usefulness and relevance, and means that renters will need to turn to brick-and-mortar video stores to rent movies with adult content. We're sure it's just a coincidence that the idea for the prosecutor's action against video kiosks came from an attorney representing the owner of several Indiana video stores.
