Hulu Decides To Discard The Only Value They Actually Have.

palmtreepalmtree:

spytap:

Pretty Soon You’ll Need To Pay For Cable To Use Hulu

(h/t: @GeekyJessica)

I imagine that Hulu is being forced to choose between losing the content their customers want and switching to this authentication service.  But you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, Hulu.  You’re choosing the path to the past instead of striking out for the future.  

Why would you tie yourself to the mast of a sinking ship?

Since Hulu is owned by so many “old media” companies, this sadly doesn’t surprise me.  They are a sinking ship.

Hopefully, another service like them will eventually pop up that could shake the boat again.  In fact, I’m sure one will.  If these giant media companies don’t start waking up to the fact that this is 2012, and people consume media in an entirely different way than they did even 5 years ago, then they deserve to fail.  My hope is that companies like YouTube, Blip.tv, Vimeo, and other curators of original web videos/series/shorts, take advantage of this and make a push to highlight the quality of the content that they’re providing, on demand, for free.

Source: spytap

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  1. kosmoskrap reblogged this from spytap and added:
    This past year it would appear that...is trying to commit seppuku.
  2. equalist-rally reblogged this from ericmortensen
  3. un reblogged this from ericmortensen and added:
    Hulu added Downton Abbey. But only for + users. Hulu is run by The Man. Oh, you don’t know the Man? He’s everywhere. In...
  4. thebookh8r reblogged this from feelinghellastabby and added:
    Dumb, dumb, dumb. Amazon and netflix will win this. Also, way to promote pirating
  5. ericmortensen reblogged this from spytap and added:
    Plus. I never watched it anyway. Now to spend some quality time with Aereo.
  6. helms-deep reblogged this from palmtreepalmtree and added:
    Since Hulu is owned by so many “old media” companies, this sadly doesn’t surprise me. They are a sinking ship....
  7. ncarinae reblogged this from curiousmeans and added:
    This is like buying a book in order to unlock it on Kindle. Wat.
  8. motivatedslacker reblogged this from feelinghellastabby and added:
    Very dumb idea. And as the article points out, not all of the shows on Hulu are even cable shows - some of them are...
  9. curiousmeans reblogged this from feelinghellastabby and added:
    I think Hulu means, users will need to know someone else’s cable/provider numbers…Or can you only have so many people on...
  10. brit-smith reblogged this from evangotlib
  11. feelinghellastabby reblogged this from stfupenguins and added:
    This is ridiculous. People are just going to go back to pirating again.
  12. stfupenguins reblogged this from spytap and added:
    This is a great counterargument for people who say that Netflix separating their disc and streaming business was the...
  13. adriennes reblogged this from evangotlib and added:
    WTF?
  14. meetjoewhite reblogged this from rafimama and added:
    Adios Hulu Plus
  15. palmtreepalmtree reblogged this from evangotlib and added:
    I imagine that Hulu is being forced to choose between losing the content their customers want and switching to this...
  16. rafimama reblogged this from evangotlib
  17. pberntsen reblogged this from evangotlib and added:
    If that’s the case, then I expect access to EVERYTHING. Past seasons on every show a network has. So, so dumb.
  18. aurora reblogged this from spytap
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