#redbox

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Redbox’s privacy nightmare revealed

Also: Meta is getting smarter about hardware

Redbox hack reveals customer info. from 2K rentals

The bankrupt company may not see any consequences.

look ma, I'm in an article! and another!

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Walls / Euclid, Ohio.

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ooc: I have learned I can access ao3 on my switch. I'm gonna try the Redbox machine in my garage once we get the computer installed.

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remembering redbox

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Dennis Mogelgaard. Still life with a red box (1993)

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The Great Redbox Cleanup: One Company Is Hauling Away America’s Last DVD Kiosks

Remember Redbox? Those bright red DVD vending machines that dotted every strip mall and supermarket in America, offering cheap rentals when

But what happens to these decommissioned movie dispensers? Rather than simply scrapping the machines, The Junkluggers has implemented a methodical process to maximize recycling and reuse. “Sustainable junk removal” is the ethos of the company, and that’s guided what happens to the Redbox hardware. “For the Redbox units being handled by The Junkluggers, we help to recycle the metal components and return them to the production supply chain,” explains Waltz. “There are multiple types of Redbox units out there and each must be handled differently… for each unit that comes into our possession, we carefully evaluate its components to identify what parts can be recycled or donated.” Media enthusiasts will be most keen to know what’s happening to the discs inside these machines. Redbox vending machines are capable of holding up to 630 DVDs each. If we imagine the fleet is around half full, at an average of 300 discs per unit, that would have left over 10,000,000 DVDs to be disposed of. Some might think it a shame for all these to end up in landfill. Thankfully, that’s not the case, as the company has found creative ways to give the DVD libraries within these machines a second life. “The majority of the DVDs we’ve collected from removals are being rehomed,” says Waltz. “We’ve donated DVDs to local artists, assisted living facilities, homeless shelters, veterans’ clinics, and other community organizations nationwide.” The goal is to see as many discs as possible go to new homes.

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I am absolutely losing it over the redboxcaplypse. Company goes under, leaves millions of paying customers without media they bought on their app, but leaves up physical rental boxes and loses their payment processor so the boxes will just spit out physical media for free. So hypothetically someone can have lost all the shit they bought from redbox on the app but get back roughly an equivalent in physical media if they can find a kiosk that still has power.

Absolutely goofy. Unrelated but I got a copy of the barbie movie for free last night and you can too!