According to the Hulu blog, they will no longer support Boxee connecting to their service. Citing the requests of content providers, Hulu is removing Boxee’s ability to connect to their streaming video. Boxee is an up-and-coming media center program that allows you to connect to free video services and includes the availablity to download content.
The O’Reily Radar blog has a great post dissecting the hows and whys of the breakup:
Emphasis added: portable computing devices. Not to your TV — from your TV. To your dumb-ass laptop, you smelly, hairy, friendless, gamer-freak nerd. (Sorry, I hate to talk about you that way, but that’s how they think of the Internet. I think you smell great.) To your TV is something completely different, and from the “content providers'” point of view, completely wrong. Aren’t Apple and Tivo and YouTube bad enough as it is?
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