Hulu Munging HTML With JS To Protect Content

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 2, 2009 @01:20AM from the escalating-arms-race dept.

N!NJA writes "Hulu has started encoding the html that they send to people's browsers, and then decoding it using javascript before rendering it. [...] They then run the character stream through a series of javascript functions to convert it back into plain text before pushing it into your browser using DHTML. That's quite a lot of effort just for fun, so I assume that is to stop screen scrapers from parsing content." I really can't understand all this effort. Boxee displayed the Hulu advertising perfectly. I suspect Alec Baldwin is to blame.

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I HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE ENTERTAINED! right? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-04-02 06:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The goose is far from laying golden eggs. You would be closer to the truth to say "stop throwing money away on entertaining me, because if you don't do it the way I want, I'll just pirate it anyway."