We are subjected to U.S ads all the time when viewing television through traditional means.

However, this is out of context since Hulu’s reasoning behind their stance, is that the content is only viewable in the United States, well, this is where the grey area lies, because it is actually an American server accessing the content and rebroadcasting it to those who are using the proxy service, which rules out any red tape that Hulu may be subjected to.

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I am making a new forum for all aspects of Free TV ( that’s it above) Soon I will have a list of all programs needed to get the most cable or network type stations and all those stations listed. With this, and the tons of free movie websites on the web no one would ever need to pay for TV or movies again. ( TVU Player has movie channels too!) And for free, the video quality is good enough for me.. I get smooth full screen streaming video but it all depends on your computer and your video card.

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I agree a well configured VPN is virtually undectable from a connection from a local machine. That’s how I watch Hulu. The only way they can block is by address ranges of known VPNs and proxies offering this service – whcih is why hotspot keeps getting blocked.

It’s not a real solution though and they can’t block every VPN connecting to their service!

This is not about traffic but the so XX century licenses schemes. Just like movies, tv series goes all the way down the distribution chain

Premier in the US -> Premier in Cable Worldwide -> Syndication (repetitions) in the US -> Syndication in the rest of the world -> DVD release in the US -> DVD release in other parts of the world where DVD is still profitable (europe maybe?)

This scheme has been threatened mostly by the torrent networks and more recently by sites like justin.tv where you do not even have to wait for someone to post it but watch it live.

the practive of squeezing money from each segments is (imho) not going to be sustainable in the future as a few days old content is not as desirable (thinking in ad terms) than a worlwide premier (with locally targeted ads in between)

Thanks, but I’d rather now have the service know where I live and most certainly not to “better advertise” to me.

CALL YOUR ISP TODAY and request they assign your device to a DHCP scope / netblock that will NOT reveal your actual geographical location.

Escalate this issue through the troglodyte ranks:

“MY privacy matters to me, dim-witted-ISP-person. I PAY you. LISTEN to what I WANT”

^^^

I wouldn’t claim that there’s a moral high ground here, but it is still undeniable that the seller could have gotten the money instead of getting robbed.

Instead of wasting resources working on how to keep the “pirates” out and how to keep certain customers from trying to buy, maybe a more constructive approach is taking a good hard look at all those rules and contracts that have been set up and try to work out something that’ll let the interested customers buy directly and thus creating huge revenue streams instead of losing revenue by sending customers to “black market” sources.

I guess in their ideal fantasy world, the customers would just sit tight and be ready to shell out when the sellers decide they’re good and ready to sell, if that time ever even comes. And the customers will of course be happy to pay over and over again for the same content in different formats.

The media companies need to wake up and deal with the reality already. People WANT to support the content they love by paying money, watching ads, whatever. They know this means the content they love will keep on being produced. They WANT this. All that the companies need to do is make this EASY instead of piling on obstacles after obstacles.

Companies keep shooting themselves in the foot by making proper paying customers feel like idiots because they have to deal with DRM and ads telling them not to pirate. That stuff in no way makes it harder to get content illegally. In fact they severely cripple their own product and make the illegal competition appear more attractive. WAKE UP, media companies! People want to give you piles and piles of money, why must you make it so difficult? Why?!

*Pammy busts a vein and dies*

No matter what the reasons are for doing so, from reading the discussions here and elsewhere regarding Hulu, all it says to me is that the Internet can never be a truly legitimate replacement for standard broadcast or DVD/Blu-Ray releases, as some want it to be. In order for it to be so, there would need to be no blocks or anything of the kind. OK, so maybe Hulu is too lazy or lawyer-bound to solve the problem; I’m not seeing anyone starting a Hulu Canada, do you? For this to work, if I want to watch an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, or the 1960s Batman show online, I should be allowed to do so with a click or two (whether it should be free, or made available with ads, or pay per view, is the topic for a separate debate).

Fact is, as long as the Internet remains subject to geolocks, then frankly Hulu is no different than the regioning of DVDs, or the fact TV and home video viewers have to make do with whatever lawyers and studios and individual broadcasters have decided we should be allowed to see in our parts of the world. It’s not an advancement at all; or, if it is, it’s only an advancement for one part of the world and shouldn’t be considered part of the WORLD Wide Web…

Goat cheese is good, though.