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The streaming giant Netflix has officially ended DVD rentals after decades of shipping out their red DVD envelopes. With September 29th serving as the final day of service, the streaming giant reported on Twitter (aka X) that the last DVD to be sent out was a copy of 2010's True Grit. A great choice to be sure, but indeed it is the end of an era. While there are still other places for film and television lovers to access DVDs, the decision to end its DVD rental service means that Netflix will now solely be a streaming operation.
"Today, after 25 years, we ship our last DVD. It was a huge honor to join the incredible DVD team in Fremont this week to thank them for being a part of something that changed people's lives. Those iconic red envelopes were so loved that we shipped more than 5 billion of them to cities and towns, big and small that otherwise would have had no access to the variety of films and television shows we made available. Thank you to all of our members and DVD employees for 25 history making years!"
Sarandos wasn't the only one to mark the occasion. On the company's official blog, Netflix bid farewell to its DVD rentals with a short nostalgic video that showcased how the service evolved from its conception to the present day. Netflix stated:
Previously, while discussing the company's decision to end its long-running service, Sarandos explained the reasoning behind the streamers choice to step away from DVD rentals. He said, "After an incredible 25 year run, we've decided to wind down DVD.com later this year. Our goal has always been to provide the best service for our members but as the business continues to shrink that's going to become increasingly difficult. So we want to go out on a high, and will be shipping our final discs on September 29, 2023."
Sarandos finished by saying, "We feel so privileged to have been able to share movie nights with our DVD members for so long, so proud of what our employees achieved and excited to continue pleasing entertainment fans for many more decades to come. To everyone who ever added a DVD to their queue or waited by the mailbox for a red envelope to arrive: thank you."
A North Korean man will reportedly be sentenced to death for smuggling and selling copies of Netflix's hit TV series Squid Game after several high school students were reportedly caught watching the show in class.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported this week that the man allegedly acquired a copy of the dystopian South Korean show in China and illegally smuggled it into North Korea. Copies of the show were then allegedly sold on USB flash drives and SD cards.
The alleged smuggler, whose name was not released, will reportedly be sentenced to death via a firing squad, according to RFA. Additionally, one student who purchased a USB drive reportedly received a life sentence in prison, while six others who were caught watching the show were sentenced to five years hard labor, sources told the news outlet.
Some of the students' teachers and administrators have also reportedly been fired over the incident, and sources told RFA they believed that those teachers and administrators would also be sent to work at hard labor or face exile to rural sections of the country.
Last year, North Korea passed the Elimination of Reactionary Thought and Culture act, which prohibits the entry and dissemination of materials including films, plays, music and books into the country. The law is particularly aimed at preventing the spread of media from capitalist nations including South Korea and the U.S., and anyone violating the law could face life in prison or death.
This incident marks the first time North Korean authorities are applying the recently passed act to minors, according to RFA. Now, authorities are scouring markets for memory storage devices and video CDs containing any foreign media, one source told the news outlet.
Squid Game has become Netflix's most-watched show ever, ranking first in 94 countries and viewed in 142 million homes worldwide after only a month, according to the company's third-quarter earnings report. The series is also the first Korean original to top Netflix's consumer-facing Top 10 popularity chart.
Sources told RFA that the show's dystopian world, in which indebted people are violently pitted against one another in traditional children's games to win huge cash prizes, resonates with North Koreans living under totalitarian leadership.
Another resident of North Pyongan province, bordering China, told RFA in earlier report that the show has also resonated with smugglers who risk their lives to bring goods into the nation's normally tightly regulated borders which have seen even tighter security since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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