Hulu is not to blame… and there is a hack!

Posted on February 23, 2009 by
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So I tried to start up a boycott against Hulu.com, well no one is interested it seems. Comments ranged from:

“Hulu is not to blame, they just do what they have to do” “I don’t use Boxee why do I care” and “Hulu is a free service that would be NOTHING if the content providers went away. They are at their mercy, “victims” like us.”

I get it, I guess I was looking to hard at the big picture. I was amazed at the whole Facebook Terms of Service Change and the up roar over it. The Facebook group “People Against the new Terms of Service (TOS)” has 130,000 members.

So as a whole we have to bow down to the content providers, take what they give us.   We should just sit back and except DRM (Digital Right Managment) . Why should EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) or EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) even exist. What is the point?  If your service provider decided you can’t get to Google anymore, thats fine.  After all you are only paying for access to their network.  How about they start charging a fee for reaching certain sites, like Hulu because of the bandwidth usage?  That is ok also.

Trust me, I understand the whole point of Hulu being a free service.  So is over the air TV, but as a society we do not allow them to dictate what brand of TV Set you watch the content with.   If we do not like a show, and it has no ratings it goes away.  So with this win under the content providers cap, we can see this in other things… like blocking you because you have a Apple TV device, or blocking out programming for you because you are using a MythTV box or better yet how about blocking you because you have Tivo.  Guess it would effect you then, maybe you’d care.

Just my thoughts…

Btw here’s the hack Hulu: Bring Hulu Back to Boxee and XBMC tho I’ll never use it.

Zero

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  • Will

    You’d think they’d want more product exposure across the board. This is where the industry’s paradigm has always failed. If they would offer their products with a more range of viewing options I think piracy would decrease as well as give them another platform for different advertisers and gauging media viewing numbers. I hope to see in my lifetime a media industry that offers many options to view streaming DRM content and the ability to buy non-DRM titles at a reasonable price.

    Also, I would wager a large sum that most of the people that joined that group did so without ever reading the actual Facebook TOS changes and just saw a blurb somewhere. I guess it beats seeing them in another Guinness Record 1000000000 Users group.

  • Will

    You’d think they’d want more product exposure across the board. This is where the industry’s paradigm has always failed. If they would offer their products with a more range of viewing options I think piracy would decrease as well as give them another platform for different advertisers and gauging media viewing numbers. I hope to see in my lifetime a media industry that offers many options to view streaming DRM content and the ability to buy non-DRM titles at a reasonable price.

    Also, I would wager a large sum that most of the people that joined that group did so without ever reading the actual Facebook TOS changes and just saw a blurb somewhere. I guess it beats seeing them in another Guinness Record 1000000000 Users group.

  • Jamal

    You mention that hulu.com would be nothing without the content providers, but hulu is a company formed between Fox, NBC and Disney. Disney owns ESPN, ABC and some Pixar content so they ARE in fact the content providers! FYI.

  • Jamal

    You mention that hulu.com would be nothing without the content providers, but hulu is a company formed between Fox, NBC and Disney. Disney owns ESPN, ABC and some Pixar content so they ARE in fact the content providers! FYI.

  • Anon E Moose

    You really need to learn to spell better. “Guess it would affect you” not “Guess it would effect you”, and “looking TOO hard” not “looking to hard”, etc.

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