Disguised as unassuming ATM points, the bright yellow kiosks in Ethiopia act as full-fledged self-service media distributors and can be readily found in local malls across the country, TorrentFreak reports.

“At the beginning of this year, All Mart (the Walmart equivalent here) brought in a new machine. It’s basically a monitor with a USB port but shaped like an ATM. It’s called SwiftMedia and there’s a guy who ‘maintains’ it,” a source told TorrentFreak.

“Basically you go to this very big store and you approach the machine and you plug in a USB drive. The screen will turn on and it will let you browse through a massive archive of movies.”

Questioning the legality of these machines? Well, this is Ethiopia and the allegedly democratic government has bigger issues.

The SwiftMedia kiosks are reportedly maintained by a company called Escape Computing, selling various affordable packages for 25, 50 and 100 birr (or approximately $1, $2, and $4). Feature movies purportedly cost between three and five birr to download.

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Author: Technology Vista