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- johnclayton, on 02/24/2009, -35/+288Just when it looked like the big media companies were finally getting wise with the whole 'interweb fad', they go off and pull this kind of *****! Guess what, Hulu...people want to watch TV over the internet...on their TVs!!! What's next? PlayOn? Tversity?
Get with the game, Hulu...get with the ***** game. - turbosarus, on 02/19/2009, -6/+245Back to Torrents!
- LiquidIse, on 02/19/2009, -12/+201I completely misinterpreted this title at first.
...I think I have been on /b/ too much recently. - mmcgrath, on 02/19/2009, -7/+130If you advertise on hulu, you should know that hulu has just made a decision to actually limit the number of people who view your ads.
- seantubridy, on 02/19/2009, -3/+105Read Hulu's blog post. As much as I disagree with their decision, it's rare to see a CEO write something so (seemingly) honest. It seems as if services like Hulu need to teach their content providers how things work so everyone doesn't get stuck in this situation. Seriously, like a real workshop on how media works today because content providers are living in the past if they think forcing services like Hulu to do stuff like this is a good move. It's only going to hurt them in the end.
http://blog.hulu.com/ - grodrigu, on 02/18/2009, -4/+94Hulu was the deciding factor in getting an AppleTV and boxee. They better hurry it up with nbc.com and netflix for boxee.
- flunkycarter, on 02/19/2009, -3/+78I won't be needing my Apple TV anymore, any buyers?
- SkippyDoorknob, on 02/19/2009, -5/+79It's the content providers who require the restrictions, not Hulu.
- RandaII, on 02/19/2009, -13/+68Bitch moan Bitch moan. Did you even read the link? no you didn't you should know that the networks have asked hulu to take care of this. I hate it when you diggers just post comments just based on the title.
- Branchex, on 02/19/2009, -3/+57From the blog post it seems that Hulu does not mind being on Boxee, its the content partners. If you wanna boycott something it should be them.
- sirbeta, on 02/19/2009, -0/+49The fact that Hulu allows you to freely embed videos anywhere you want, I don't really understand this. How is this different from "embedding" the video in Boxee's interface instead of someone's browser?
- skottles, on 02/19/2009, -1/+49From the hulu blog:
http://blog.hulu.com/2009/2/18/doing-hard-things - abrasion, on 02/19/2009, -23/+69Hulu doesn't get it allright, it's 2009 and the internet is ubiquitous yet these goons have IP restrictions.
God it kills us foreigners when Americans link Hulu >:( - We know it's handy for you guys but for us, it's just an annoying link.
Down with Hulu - ugh, I want a filter in my firefox to just block the urls even coming up. - splinechaser, on 02/19/2009, -4/+49We're just doing it to the rest of the world because the BBC does it to us. Take that England!!!
- dalittle, on 02/19/2009, -1/+46Make sure you treat nbc, cbs, and news corp like they treat you.
- r3m1x645, on 02/19/2009, -6/+49BOXXY!! oh wait......
- skyshock1, on 02/19/2009, -8/+48Eh, doesn't matter, you can't get Hulu outside the US anyway. Dumbass region encoded *****.
- cheezintern, on 02/19/2009, -3/+38..until I can have total freedom to watch my shows on whatever device I want (pc, media center, gps device, etc.), I will continue to download the episodes via torrents. Hopefully one day content providers will wake up and realize they're about 10 years behind the demands of the consumer. Hulu is a great step forward though, I don't mind the adverts.
- DoubleyouTeeEff, on 02/19/2009, -5/+39I am Boxxy you see?
- thunderclap82, on 02/19/2009, -1/+34The way the content owners are treating their customers is unfortunate. I can see a lot of people being pushed pack to downloading through bit torrent to get a version of their favorite shows for their television.
- oskee80, on 02/19/2009, -4/+37Now that Hulu is mainstream enough to have a Superbowl ad, they screw the early adopters who've been excited about Hulu from the very beginning and sang its early praises. The very same early adopters who are the type of people to run boxee and actually consider using an ad-supported viewing model as opposed to torrents.
It was nice while it lasted. This kind of stunt just undid any progress that had been made, and I'm back to torrents. - oskee80, on 02/19/2009, -3/+35While this is true, remember that Hulu is owned by NBC and Fox, the two largest content providers for the site. Saying that their hands were tied by the providers, when they in fact are the major providers themselves, seems like trying to pass the buck.
- LiquidIse, on 02/19/2009, -1/+33"Epic is EPIC!!"
Is one of your most recent comments. - ronaldmonster, on 02/19/2009, -11/+41Lol you actually bought Apple TV?
- Xanderrr, on 02/19/2009, -32/+61Boxxy is our queen...?
KIDDING - idiotonuni, on 02/19/2009, -0/+27That was my favorite part of boxee...oh aside from revision3 of coarse.
- DMClark84, on 02/19/2009, -2/+29Contents of the post since it keeps going down:
"the Hulu situation
general — avner ronen on February 18, 2009 @ 5:55 pm
we love Hulu. they have built a great product and brand (including one the best Superbowl ads this year). since our early days in private alpha, Hulu was the most requested site by our users. so we built support for browsing Hulu on boxee, reached out to Hulu, and on Oct 20th, 2008 shared it with our alpha testers. the response has been amazing. people love watching many of their favorite shows on Hulu via boxee. last week we generated more than 100,000 streams for them…
two weeks ago Hulu called and told us their content partners were asking them to remove Hulu from boxee. we tried (many times) to plead the case for keeping Hulu on boxee, but on Friday of this week, in good faith, we will be removing it. you can see their blog post about the issues they are facing.
our goal has always been to drive users to legal sources of content that are publicly available on the Internet. we have many content partners who are generating revenue from boxee users and we will work with Hulu and their partners to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.
we will tell them how users love Hulu on boxee, why it represents a great opportunity for them to better engage with fans of their shows, how boxee can help in exposing their content to new people, and why they should be excited about future opportunities of working with us.
we will blog/tweet as soon as we have any updates" - inactive, on 02/19/2009, -7/+34ALL HAIL |3OXXY
- alpha88, on 02/19/2009, -3/+30Oh god no. What will I do without messages saying the content is unavailable outside of the U.S.?!?!
- inactive, on 02/19/2009, -0/+24Now that we can't watch it via boxee/hulu with ad support we're just going to download torrents and the 'providers' will see no revenue. Retarded. I wish these companies had people in charge who knew WTF they were doing. I'm unplugging my ATV until nbc and netflix support arrives for boxee.
- Chompy, on 02/19/2009, -0/+24I just got back from Korea, and I always got a kick out of the providers who insist that Hulu/Netflix/etc block foreign access to their content. I mean there was guy at the foot of my building selling bootlegs of everything, ever, for less than a buck US.. so yeah, you clueless geezers sure showed Asia and the rest of the world.
- sloppychris, on 02/19/2009, -1/+24I'm glad I didn't have to scroll too far down the comments to find what I was already thinking.
- byaselli21, on 02/19/2009, -0/+21HULU's Blog : http://blog.hulu.com/
"Later this week, Hulu's content will no longer be available through Boxee. While we never had a formal relationship with Boxee, we are under no illusions about the likely Boxee user response from this move. This has weighed heavily on the Hulu team, and we know it will weigh even more so on Boxee users.
Our content providers requested that we turn off access to our content via the Boxee product, and we are respecting their wishes. While we stubbornly believe in this brave new world of media convergence — bumps and all — we are also steadfast in our belief that the best way to achieve our ambitious, never-ending mission of making media easier for users is to work hand in hand with content owners. Without their content, none of what Hulu does would be possible, including providing you content via Hulu.com and our many distribution partner websites.
For those Boxee users reading this post, we understand and appreciate that you're likely to tell us that we're nuts. Please know that we do share the same interests and won't stop innovating in support of the bigger mission."
Jason Kilar
CEO, Hulu - hadak, on 02/19/2009, -1/+21See, I gave up torrenting my shows because I could get them on Hulu over Boxee... now, I'll just have to download them via tvrss.net with boxee's integrated rss/torrent manager.
- Sagags, on 02/19/2009, -1/+19oh and btw I don't give a ***** about your spam/rant
- jbklego, on 02/19/2009, -2/+20Same
- altgeeky1, on 02/19/2009, -0/+18That would hardly be legal.
- coldkill3r, on 02/19/2009, -2/+20***** or gtfo?
- Xavious85, on 02/19/2009, -4/+21Wow...how retarded....
- MacEnvy, on 02/19/2009, -1/+18FYI, pimping your own submission is a good way to assure it never reaches the front page. A lot of us will now bury your story because you felt it necessary to spam in another thread. Just letting you know.
- KSUdesigner, on 02/19/2009, -2/+19netflix has been on boxee for a while now
- pHreaksYcle, on 02/19/2009, -4/+21And the 5 Apple TV owners come out of the woodwork to bury you.
- gabeN, on 02/19/2009, -1/+18From what it sounds like, in the hulu post they can break the functionality on their end if they need to.
I'm pretty pissed about this, as I just built an expensive HTPC to watch hulu in my living-room.
Oh well, looks like I'll go back to downloading these shows elsewhere. (At least I won't have to watch the ads) - inactive, on 02/19/2009, -2/+19reporting in.
***** boxxy - Nouman6, on 02/19/2009, -0/+17so now you'll have to torrent their tv show, transfer it to boxee, and then watch it?
they just like adding steps :/ - trump48257, on 02/19/2009, -1/+17If you're honestly serious how much and which version :)
- MCA2142, on 02/19/2009, -3/+18Here you go.
http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/9/9 ... - BlaculasFro, on 02/19/2009, -0/+15Dugg for pirate *****.
- LJSeinfeld, on 02/19/2009, -17/+32If you'd like to contact Hulu about this decision. You can email them at feedback@hulu.com .
If you like Hulu on Boxee, please let them know (in a fairly civilized mannor!). - Memnochxx, on 02/19/2009, -0/+14What do they even have to do with each other?
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