Hulu Pulls Content From Boxee

post from Daring Fireball on 19 February 2009 11:22:00 AM. © Daring Fireball

If you read between the lines on Hulu’s weblog entry on the decision, it’s clear that it wasn’t Hulu’s decision, but rather that of their “content partners”. Read: the studios and TV networks. As Hulu CEO Jason Kilar writes:

While we never had a formal relationship with Boxee, we are under no illusions about the likely Boxee user response from this move.

Hulu gets it. The studio executives do not. They want a level of control that is no longer feasible — allowing us to, say, watch their movies and shows on Hulu on our computer screens, but not on our TV screens.

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Read The Full Article:
http://blog.boxee.tv/2009/02/18/the-hulu-situation/