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Hulu Again Removed From Boxee and Again Added Back

Posted by timothy on from the hope-you're-happy-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a mouse and cat game, Hulu the popular online content provider of shows, movies, and more has blocked Boxee yet again from accessing the Hulu content from the Boxee application. Just as Boxee added RSS feeds to include Hulu content, Hulu responded with blocking Boxee users from accessing the content via RSS feeds the very same day. RSS feeds are publicly available and it's really disappointing to hear that a site would block certain applications from accessing their content in such a manner. I would assume that the Boxee development team is currently working on disguising its browser to look like Firefox, Internet Explorer, or some other known browser in an attempt to fool Hulu."

3 of 220 comments (clear)

  1. Update = duplicate? by JackieBrown · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Did we really need a whole new article for this?

    Couldn't it have just been added as an update to the original posted the same day?

  2. changing user agent by godrik · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Ok, I am risking making people believe, I am an idiot. But, isn't it is as simple as changing the user agent ? This should take at most 3 minutes to any developer (one to get the UA of Internet Explorer, one to copy paste it in the code and one to commit it).

    I must have missed something...

  3. Re:Boxee is not like RSS in a browser by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does it still show the commercials that pop up during the video?

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