Hulu requests removal from Boxee

Post by jonursenbach » Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 12:24 AM UTC

Post by paulsmith » Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 12:50 AM UTC

jonursenbach wrote: post #2

It really is a shame for NBCU, and company, to ask Hulu to cut Boxee off. If I recall correctly, didn't content from Hulu that was piped into Boxee still have ads? Hopefully someday they'll realize that when they cut off people from having legal access to their content, people will go back to their illegal methods. When will old media learn?

Post by abstractbill » Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 12:59 AM UTC

paulsmith wrote: post #4

jonursenbach wrote: post #2

It really is a shame for NBCU, and company, to ask Hulu to cut Boxee off. If I recall correctly, didn't content from Hulu that was piped into Boxee still have ads? Hopefully someday they'll realize that when they cut off people from having legal access to their content, people will go back to their illegal methods. When will old media learn?

If they would just think of the content as syndication ala RSS, or YouTube embedding, they'd recognize that we Boxee users see the same pre-/post-/middle-roll ads that appear on Hulu.com actual. This is especially frustrating for me because I set up my HTPC with Boxee expressly to have an easy-to-navigate interface for Hulu via my remote control.

Post by IsaacSchlueter » Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 1:22 AM UTC

Post by bestes » Thu, Feb 19, 2009, 1:29 AM UTC

swlevy wrote: post #9

abstractbill wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The old-media guys who made this decision almost certainly don't have a clue what RSS is. I share your viewpoint, but there are (still) many dinosaurs running this industry.

It isn't quite that simple; I work for an "old media" company, and for us, Boxee jumped the gun by ingesting content prior to having the requisite agreement. Since they did not consult our developers, our ads were not implemented correctly, and we weren't getting paid (even though Boxee's users may have been seeing the ads).