Hulu is trying to keep its content restricted to traditional browsers. By doing so it hopes to shut down clients such as Boxee and other apps that enable the websites content to be distributed over non traditional browsers. Milliesoft "h[as] come across an interesting development with Hulu this morning. They have started encoding the html that they send to people's browsers, and then decoding it using javascript before rendering it."
This appears to be an on going battle against non traditional means of displaying Hulu's content. The reasoning may be revenue based as the site may not receive proper views or clicks when viewed in such a manner. More than likely it's probably also upsetting major corporate networks who don't want to see Hulu streamed to televisions. Either way, when there is something to be hacked or cracked there is a team somewhere dedicated to the cause.
So DVR's are ok?
You're assuming boxee shows hulu's content without ads. They don't as far as I've heard.
just got a Sanyo 26 inch. who cares about streaming it to the tv? have the tv hooked up to the computer.
And where exactly are advertisers going to go? Newspapers are dying, people are skipping ads on TV, etc. If the advertisers don't start investing in the Internet and Digital Distribution avenues, they are going to find themselves with nowhere to sell.
Let alone just hooking up a laptop with an hdmi cable to the tv and a wireless keyboard/mouse.
No LOGICAL point. I would presume that management has to let content owners know that they are protecting their data.
But yea, your point is valid. It's the content owners who have to realize that once you let the content outside your gates, it can be copied.
Yup, it's a cat and mouse game that never ends. The honest customer always ends up footing the bill though which makes it difficult to justify doing the right thing.
They have more than just "bits" do some more research before posting. Also less commericals than traditional TV networks.
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