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Hulu Again Removed From Boxee and Again Added Back
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."
"How would you feel if someone hot-linked your content, consumed your bandwidth, and gave you no advertising revenue in exchange?"
Probably like a person with a very broken business model, but that's just me.
I agree! The same goes for banks! They obviously have a broken business model, so I thought, well, since they're not lending money, I'll just go in and cut them out and help myself!
Fucking FBI! They didn't understand that I was doing the country a service by updating the banking system!
No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title...
Since the US is the only country that can access Hulu's content this is hardly Earth shattering news.
When Hulu discovers there's a whole planet out there, the rest of us will start to care.
"If you park your car downtown with the windows rolled down and the keys in the ignition, you may be an idiot. But the guy who takes it is still a thief. And the quiet little towns where nobody will take it... those are treasures."
So copying is theft? How distorted.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
They block boxee. So what? If your too lazy to navigate to hulu.com which works fine with linux and mac via firefox, maybe its a bad tactical decision but it doesnt stop you from watching hulu. Its still free and its still available...over the internet!
There is no point in arguing. Guys like the parent just think everything should be given to him for free, at the same time he expects his boss at work to pay his paycheck on time and get annual raises no matter what his performance is like. He will only accept B2B business models were the customer is not directly effected by this. Advertising is pure evil and attempts to make it better for him is just more evil. His view of the world is based on the Dot Com error economics of yea we are selling at a loss but we will make it up in volume. Combined with very basic knowledge of how things really costs and misunderstanding numbers cause products to be more expensive then people think.
There is no changing his mind. He probably lives in his moms basement where everything is given for free anyways and cash that he makes goes straight to toys.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.