Boxee Drops Hulu Support

frdmfghtr writes "According to a boxee blog entry, Hulu will no longer be supported. From the post: '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.' Reading the hulu blog post, the only 'issue' I see facing Hulu is that content providers have (once again) shot themselves in the foot, switching off a media conduit they should have been promoting." Update: 02/19 14:31 GMT by T : Jamie points out this interesting (speculative) piece at O'Reilly Radar about the thought process that may have driven the decision.

Comments

So?

[Brazilian Geek]

Since I'm not in the US and can't see Hulu, I'm not missing a thing - in fact, this makes Boxee even more attractive to me now that a lot of the videos I click on won't block me.

I guess I have to thank Hulu for denying Boxee access.

Re:And what would Boxee be?

[at_slashdot]

For unwashed and uneducated who cannot bother to search Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee