Hulu blocks boxee. Blame old media.

February 18, 2009 Boxee

BC83D9D7-E35E-46E4-81BF-397F85B8ABA1.jpgI love boxee. I love Hulu. Together, they were totally awesome--my girlfriend and I could watch shows on an actual TV, not squinting at a laptop screen. Unfortunately, Hulu is now being blocked on boxee. Hulu's not to blame here--it's the content providers (NBC and Fox) who complained. As many of the blogs covering this situation have noted, boxee didn't block ads--so my guess is the only reason the providers made this decision is because boxee isn't something they directly control.

Hopefully we can get a little bit of an uproar about this and convince the content providers that boxee is providing them a valuable service. I hate it when consumers get left out in the cold because old ways of thinking win out.

(via boxee blog)

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