Hulu Pulls Content from Boxee

Citing demands from content owners, Hulu announced that it will no longer allow the Boxee software package to carry Hulu content. Since Boxee makes viewing content from Internet providers highly intuitive and simple, the owners of the content argue that people will be less likely to buy cable and DVDs or to download videos from iTunes.

Boxee argues that their only goal is to drive users to content that is available for free on the Internet, but since Hulu is entirely dependent on the content supplied by their providers, they have little choice but to attempt to enforce their interests.

Boxee users argue that Hulu is now forcing them to make a choice between watching the content on a computer screen and downloading the content (in better quality) via bit torrent. Since Boxee simply provides Internet content to be easily streamed to your television set, it seems to make very little sense that content providers are now mandating where you are allowed to watch their content -- not which content or when.