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Hulu Move Suggests Internet Video Has Peaked, For Now

February 19, 2009 RSS Feed Print

News that Hulu is pulling its video from other services raises the specter that Internet video is running up against a wall. Hulu's CEO explains that providers of its TV shows and movies wanted them pulled from Boxee, nifty software that turns a PC into an Internet media center.

Cable companies are seen as pressuring Hollywood as they try to beat back competition from the Web. They had to fear that Hulu was quickly pulling Internet video from its PC closet to the family room, where cable makes its money.

It's clearly a setback for those of us who want to see shows and movies freed from cable's constraints. We'll see how long cable can keep its hands on the lasso.

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Loy47 of IN 10:09PM October 22, 2009

The content providers are fighting and uphill battle that they will never win. Products such as Jaksta (www.jaksta.com) and huludownloader (www.huludownloader) still allow the download of hulu content that is not DRM protected. It still amazes me that ads are streamed independently of the show stream and products such as Jakata record them as different streams and therefore it is then possible to watch the show after downloading independent of the ads. If I was Hulu I would allow products such as Jaksta to download Hulu but make sure the stream had the ads in it so when ever or whereever it was watched the ads would be in the show.

Jacqui of UT 1:13AM May 23, 2009

nice, really nice!

Invexixheli of AL 7:58PM April 16, 2009

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