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- CapeKid, on 05/28/2009, -4/+356Now we know why they blocked boxee.
- CommonSense2k8, on 05/29/2009, -12/+333Not sure if anyone noticed this from the "End User License Agreement:
"THE HULU SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES, OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE HULU SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE."
is that normal? - Tddupre, on 05/28/2009, -6/+259This is another nail in TV's coffin
- Malicious, on 05/29/2009, -19/+169Still no love for Canada. Ergo, no love for Hulu.
- brianpeiris, on 05/29/2009, -0/+125I wrote Hulu recently; I suggested that I would be willing to pay a subscription (instead of my cable TV subscription) for Hulu content in Canada.
Here's the answer I got:
Hi Brian,
Thanks for writing.
We'd love to be serving Canada. There's little language barrier to overcome,
there's strong familiarity with many of our shows because of their broadcast
exposure there, and some of the advertisers we'd need to subsidize the business
overlap with the U.S. advertiser base, too.
Long before the border-agnostic Internet arose, long before Hulu came along, the
entertainment industry was granting content rights country by country. To date,
Hulu has almost exclusively U.S. streaming rights only. But we're working hard on
obtaining international rights, country by country, show by show. It's a long
road, fraught with lawyers, but we'll keep at it.
I'm not sure that payments is necessary or would even help in speeding our entry
into Canada. Payments might be important in the future to unlocking more content,
but that's a separate issue. We'll keep at it. We want to be in Canada.
Thanks,
Eugene
Hulu - billygreen23, on 05/28/2009, -8/+126Wow, I never thought they would actually do this. Now we just need a media center plugin.
- jihadjohnson, on 05/28/2009, -7/+96I would love to see them make this into an official Boxee plugin (via the AppBox), but I don't think that's going to happen...
P.S. Where is the Linux client!?! - thredden, on 05/29/2009, -4/+92unfortunately, yes. this is normal.
- tehdave, on 05/29/2009, -3/+81I hope this is the future of TV
- Yarkz, on 05/29/2009, -4/+75Still waiting for Hulu for my ipod...
- BrosephStalin, on 05/29/2009, -2/+71Why can't us canucks have nice things as well?
Is it the denim jackets?
It's the denim jackets isn't it?! - motang, on 05/28/2009, -9/+73Is this why Hulu kept blocking boxee?
- WorldLeader, on 05/29/2009, -0/+64More like Cable's coffin.. I still enjoy watching movies on the big screen.
- TDDebug, on 05/29/2009, -0/+56Wow eramos, are you seriously that much of a moron?
- redrabbit, on 05/29/2009, -3/+57Yes, every app's EULA has that or something similar these days, including Google Apps and iTunes. Just the paranoid legal speak required because of the ridiculous liability companies could be held to in this country.
- dbarefoot, on 05/29/2009, -8/+60PC or Mac doesn't matter--it still won't work in Canada.
- sparkplug890, on 05/29/2009, -18/+70how is mr babby man formed?
- TomFrost, on 05/29/2009, -2/+52Since they wrote it in Flash and offered HD content.
- kokoshka, on 05/29/2009, -0/+46It's the denim jackets.
- RupeThereItIs, on 05/29/2009, -4/+48Your P.S. Is my major question... and we're not alone brother, as of this writing there are two topics on the 'discussons' page at hulu.com about the lack of linux support. Each one of these two threads have more comments than any thread there.
The (nerdy) people want a Linux client! - FatPhizzle, on 05/29/2009, -1/+43But wasnt the superbowl commercial for hulu shot in a nuclear facility?
- redrabbit, on 05/29/2009, -1/+40I'm sure Apple would love that competing with iTunes's business.
- CommonSense2k8, on 05/29/2009, -4/+37iphone
- brookslarson, on 05/29/2009, -4/+35cancel your cable.....now.
- MavRevMatt, on 05/29/2009, -2/+33But America is the only country on the internet!
- cards, on 05/28/2009, -7/+35I agree with your "Macs are PCs" argument, but not enough to bury the story. I still dugg up your comment though...
- redrabbit, on 05/29/2009, -11/+37Ouch, needs a Linux port. Oh well, I'll just keep torrenting my shows until then, which is plenty fast and ad-free. Their loss *shrugs*
- Ioovius, on 05/29/2009, -1/+26Yea, apple has it too
- DontThinkSo, on 05/29/2009, -6/+30Since when does a video player require at least 2 GB of RAM? O.o
- tacojohn, on 05/28/2009, -13/+37Ok, now I need a small computer to run this... Mac mini?
- AndrewDB, on 05/29/2009, -1/+22Because BrosephStalin, you canucks gave the world Celine Dion.
For that, you must suffer. - revenz, on 05/29/2009, -0/+20or in any other country other than the US. bugger
- Paulish, on 05/29/2009, -7/+27Dude, you can still watch Hulu on their website, and it is not like they have said they will NEVER make a linux client.
Jeez. I swear, every time a media producer doesn't come down and suck some wannabe techie's ***** personally they go "Ohhhhh wellll, I guess I'll just have to torrent it...". Sometimes I get the feeling that maybe they just want an excuse to continue torrenting.
Seriously guys, have you ever heard of baby steps? One step at a time. Get your foot in the door first. - zlancia, on 05/29/2009, -6/+26Bye Bye Comcrap
- matchb, on 05/29/2009, -0/+19Aren't the people who run Hulu aliens?
makes sense - AmusedToDeath, on 05/29/2009, -0/+19That is completely absurd. Hulu has ads embedded in the video, just like regular tv, which Boxee, Playon, etc. don't remove. It has nothing whatsoever to do with banner ads which would be pointless on a site like Hulu.
It's obvious that Hulu loves stuff like Boxee (because it helps get their content in front of eyeballs) but they have to pay lip service to blocking 3rd party use of the content to appease the Network TV overlords, who are terrified that online video will usurp their much more lucrative traditional cable/sat/OTA broadcasts.
If Hulu really wanted to block Boxee and PlayOn permanently, it wouldn't be too hard for them to do it, but they'd much rather pretend to play a cat-and-mouse game with weak ass javascript hacks that any script kiddie could bypass in 10 minutes, because then they can go to the networks and say "look we're *trying* to do something about it, they just keep getting around it". - neFariou5, on 05/29/2009, -10/+28I'll care when it works internationally.
- jeremymccurdy, on 05/29/2009, -0/+18You'll have to take my denim jacket from my cold, dead, maple syrup covered hands.
- mattledger, on 05/29/2009, -7/+25I live outside Hulu's internet boundaries, this makes me sad :'(
- MavRevMatt, on 05/29/2009, -1/+18Blocked for sheer dumbassery.
- MrBabyMan, on 05/28/2009, -54/+70Hot. Damn. Tamale.
- cryonix, on 05/29/2009, -0/+15"Payments might be important in the future to unlocking more content,
but that's a separate issue."
Hmm I dont like the sounds of that. - alphaterminus, on 05/29/2009, -1/+16Just dial your horizontal and vertical CRT dials until it stretches out.
- iKnowKungFoo, on 05/29/2009, -0/+14Considering this is a Flash application, I would hope they would take the time to convert it to an Adobe AIR application (which is Flash). That way we get our Linux version.
- AlexC16, on 05/29/2009, -1/+15three words.. they blocked it
- MicrosoftBob, on 05/29/2009, -0/+14I don't think it's up to hulu. Blame the content providers and the advertising folks (licenses and contracts.)
- Protoss, on 05/29/2009, -2/+15Ctrl+F or Apple+F works just fine here.
- MavRevMatt, on 05/29/2009, -1/+13Actually you're wrong, some videos on Hulu are 720p.
- MrDoug, on 05/29/2009, -10/+21This is SUCH a nicely done app. I'm 1000% more impressed than I was expecting to be. Well done!
PS: Goodbye Boxee. That's all I used you for, and this is nicer. Sorry... - mikedaul, on 05/29/2009, -1/+12Use Plex instead - it's got hulu and netflix, plus lots of other great stuff...
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