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Three-Year Deal Nets Hulu Exclusive Rights To South Park
First time accepted submitter gunner_von_diamond writes with news about a deal between the creators of South Park and Hulu. If you're a fan of South Park, you better be a fan of Hulu as well. Specifically, Hulu Plus. The creators of the funny, foul-mouthed animated TV show have signed a deal with the online streaming service. Valued at more than $80 million, the three-year deal grants Hulu exclusive rights to stream the 240+ episode back catalog of South Park in addition to all new episodes (as soon as they've aired on Comedy Central). "This is a natural partnership for us. We are excited that the entire library will be available on Hulu and that the best technology around will power South Park Digital Studios," said creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, in a statement.
What about Canada, you uncle fuckers?
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So... they give us Hulu...
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Bittorrent. And PopcornTime. And every other filesharing network and file host on the entire planet.
Keep walling those gardens. It's all wasted effort. The walls are transparent when the garden is digital.
Screw you guys. I'm going home!
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
define sold out, they're fairly wealthy, adding another distribution channel isn't really selling out, its reaching a wider audience, they sell out when they start censoring themselves.
I tried Hulu Plus for a couple months, but it's just ridiculous. We were forced to watch the same unskippable commercials as we'd seen in the free version, and every week I subscribed it seemed like either the individual commercial breaks got longer or the number of breaks increased (and perhaps both). If I wanted to scroll back to re-view some critical part of the show, and that part happened just before a commercial - I get to watch the commercials AGAIN. And there wasn't anything I wanted to watch that was on Hulu Plus but not on regular Hulu! So basically they wanted me to pay their subscription fee just to remove the artificial restriction that prevents non-Plus subscribers from watching Hulu on devices other than their computer.
So if you haven't experienced it, here's the executive summary: The Hulu Plus experience is pretty much exactly what you'd expect, given the company was the brainchild of a couple broadcast networks.
I don't care what exclusives they get - I will never subscribe to Hulu Plus again.
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As a long time SP fan, anything that keeps it going is fine with me.
Super Best Friends?
Comedy Central censored out Evangaline (female Butters) talking about getting her snootch pounded on friday nights.
I'm guessing, no. Gutless Hulu.
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Yeah, but Amazon and Netflix don't give you the privilege of watching several minutes of unskippable commercials for your $8/month. It's a bonus you only get with Hulu!
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You mean, in the pilot?
God started it, when he made Miley Cyrus rich and famous.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
So they were funny up until the pilot?
Granting the was only Jesus vs. Santa wrasling.
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I'm not sure why they had your money at all. IT was free at southparkstudios.com .
It's like saying, don't bother with the free content, I want to pay for everything so go ahead and start charging.
I guess I will have to start watching from torrents again
Hulu doesn't cost money other than watching the ads which were on southparkstudios.com as well. All the episodes right now are on regular Hulu. You don't need Hulu Plus.
...too late. I already avoid Hulu because commercials are something that belong back in the 50s with embedded sponsor testimonials.
Tivo liberated me from commercials in the 90s.
Not going back.
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From http://variety.com/2014/digita...:
Starting Saturday, July 12, the entire “South Park” library — 244 episodes in all — will be available for free on Hulu, and will continue to be free on SouthPark.cc.com (the address that is replacing SouthParkStudios.com) until Sept. 24. At that point, both Hulu and SouthPark.cc.com will have day-after-air access to new episodes from season 18. In addition, each of the sites will offer a revolving selection of 30 free episodes at any given time.
It sounds like they will not require Hulu plus until Sept 24, after that you will only get a "revolving selection of 30 free episodes" if you are not a member of Hulu Plus.
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It's a shame really. I refuse to pay for Hulu Plus because of the obnoxious ads. I don't have cable for a reason, and that reason is I have a problem paying monthly for something and still being bombarded by advertisements.
For me I'll probably just stop watching South Park. Not that I would really watch it with any regularity, but it was nice to every once and a while pop over to their site and watch it free (but ad supported).
Does this mean we'll finally get to see episode 201 again? Seeing as how it's not allowed to show on southparkstudios.net
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