Hulu Plus
When rumors began to circulate that Hulu might start charging for content, you could see the sneers and hear the dismissive exhales, even through the texts and tweets of the people who made them. Was this a case of Rupert Murdock flexing his (clearly) figurative corporate muscles? Internet content should not be free, people like him argued. The other millionaires and billionaires must have all nodded in unison at the golf course.
The truth is, of course, it never was free. Hulu was always support by annoying, albeit pleasantly short, advertisements, and they will continue to receive large revenue streams from advertisers. L...
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Online Streaming Content
The battle lines have been drawn, and it looks as though it could turn out to be a long war. On the surface, things appear to be friendly. Last year AT&T introduced online streaming content to their U-Verse website. Subscribers were surprised to find out that all of the content came from Hulu.com. Why would AT&T waste time and money duplicating Hulu's content? It seems like a win-win situation for Hulu and the networks that own it.
To understand the real reason for AT&T's actions, one would need a spy on the inside, but it would at least appear that they plan to eventually expand their range of co...
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