{"id":406194,"date":"2010-03-09T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100308\/0152598460.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-09T01:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T06:51:00","slug":"indiana-county-decides-not-to-charge-redbox-after-public-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/406194","title":{"rendered":"Indiana County Decides Not To Charge Redbox After Public Outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week we wrote about how prosecutors in Indiana were threatening<\/a> to file criminal<\/i> charges against Redbox execs unless the company agreed to remove R-rated movies from its kiosks. The whole thing was instigated by brick-and-mortar video stores who didn’t like competing with Redbox’s $1 video rentals. However, as news spread about this threat, it seems that the residents of that county raised their voices and let the prosecutor know they wanted to keep their Redbox<\/a> and its R-rated movies. The prosecutor noted that the standard for whether this was a problem was “community standards,” and the community made it loud and clear to him that they wanted the Redbox kiosks to stay:<\/p>\n


\n“It’s not an exact barometer — I didn’t take a poll — but it just seemed pretty clear to me that the community would not be behind the prosecution of this,” Stan Levco said during Friday’s news conference.
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While it’s good that he’s backed down, I’m still not sure which is more troubling, that he initiated the threats at the behest of competitors, or that public outcry alone was enough to get him to back down.<\/p>\n

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Last week we wrote about how prosecutors in Indiana were threatening to file criminal charges against Redbox execs unless the company agreed to remove R-rated movies from its kiosks. The whole thing was instigated by brick-and-mortar video stores who didn’t like competing with Redbox’s $1 video rentals. However, as news spread about this threat, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}