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Hulu to Change Model of Free Streaming
- joejohnson 14y agoThis is absurd. The networks (some of which own Hulu) are used to double-charging the consumer: you pay for a subscription, and then you pay by watching ~18 minutes of ads for every hour of TV. I watch Hulu occasionally, but I never watch TV. This is a stupid move on Hulu's part. Instead of being a service that will aim to move people away from TV and to a new distribution model, they have chosen to remake TV on the internet. For many reasons, the profits from TV will never be as high as they have been historically. Television now has to compete with free, because try as they might, the TV networks will never stop piracy. But trying to milk more money from paying customers (or those who try to legally watch shows online) will push more users away from their platform.