Netflix Removes Scenes From “The Squid Game” | By a real phone

The streaming platform Netflix must have taken the bull by the antlers, and announced that will delete scenes of The squid game in which he was seen a genuine phone number. “Together with the production company, we are working to resolve this issue, including editing scenes with phone numbers if necessary,” the company said in a statement on Tuesday.

The controversy began last week, when a South Korean user revealed that he is the owner of the number appearing on the mysterious spooky game organization map. “They call me day and night to satisfy their curiosity”, the unidentified citizen noted in a Korean newspaper article Money today. In England, Government agency Ofcom warned Netflix that by disclosing information about an individual, even unintentionally, it was violate the laws in force identity protection.

There was another unintended consequence of the success of the series created by Hwang Dong Hyuk, in which a group of people overwhelmed by their debts are subjected to a series of games with deadly resolutions. In Korea, Internet service provider SK Provider sued Netflix due to the surge in traffic on their networks due to the digital conversation sparked around the TV show.

In its application, the company states that Netflix is ​​the second largest brand to generate traffic in South Korea behind Youtube, and that you sign as Amazon, Facebook and Apple pay extra through the use of bandwidth. SK demands that Netflix pay the same fees retroactive to May 2018, and made an estimate that only for traffic generated in 2020 the red N should pay 28 billion won, about $ 20 million. Considering the game’s top prize is 45 billion won, that doesn’t sound like much.