Comments on: Boxee responds to NBC’s Jeff Zucker

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By: Ed Kitchen

Ed Kitchen — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:40:03 +0000

Just thought i would comment and say neat design, did you code it yourself? Looks great.

By: shaun hall

shaun hall — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:46:08 +0000

Hi… Id like to say.. i remember that i read somewhere that without mozilla/firefox none of this would be possible… so is it safe to say Boxee is using firefox(technology) to access the Hulu website.. Thus… we would be using Firefox to watch Hulu?

but maybe i missed something.

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Boxee vs Hulu : Chill Report | Cool Gadgets, Music, Travel, TV & Movies — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:01:42 +0000

[...] Boxee CEO Avner Ronen had his own say on Zucker’s statement. He writes in his blog: [...]

By: Mike.Y

Mike.Y — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:44:30 +0000

Obviously you didn't read Hulu's Terms of Service.

“use technology or other means to access, index, frame or link to the Content or the Hulu Services that is not authorized by Hulu.”

It wasn't authorized by Hulu, therefor it is against their Terms of Service. Any arguments to the contrary are only arguments for Hulu to change their Terms of Service (which I don't see happening anytime soon).

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Flash on your phone may not preclude Hulu hoops | Out of the Box — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:36:37 +0000

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By: Ike

Ike — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:35:25 +0000

I disagree that it's exactly the same as using the embed code in a blog. When you embed a Hulu clip in a blog it shows a static thumbnail with some branding. It has the Hulu logo on top and says Presented by NBC at the bottom. Furthermore, the user interaction is different, when you roll over an embedded clip with a mouse you get a Hulu bar with a search box and other sharing options. All of these features are virtually unavailable or inaccessible when viewed inside Boxee (assuming the standard use without mouse input). These may seem like small details to you but they can be BIG issues for the media companies. Many people seem insensitive to that and this perception gap can cause problems in these discussions.

I haven't read their terms of service and they may very well permit this kind of use. I never said that Boxee was violating anything or even doing anything wrong for that matter. I was just trying to illuminate the other point of view which is often lost when comments get heated and people take sides. Trust me, I'm on your side, in the sense that I want to be able to watch Hulu on Boxee. I actually wish it would be much simpler, through a simple API, instead of having developers jump through hoops to make it work. But we've also seen what happens when these things are not handled properly.

By: Eugenia

Eugenia — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:05:02 +0000

David, yes, a user can click the fullscreen button. But not the browser, or a plugin, or another application should do that FOR the user. Boxee should not be pressing the Fullscreen button for the user, because then Boxee interferes with the defaults of the Hulu site.

What if the designers of the site WANT the user to view the page before he hits fullscreen? What if the designers have there a nice little graphic and WANT their visitors to view it? As stupid this might sound, it could happen. When you use someone's service, you use it as per their request, and by using the defaults. But when you get third party tools interfering with that default experience, then this can be seen, and it is seen, as "illegal" from Hulu, because it breaks their ToS. Only the user should be able to alter the defaults, not third party tools.

By: Khürt Williams

Khürt Williams — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:10:30 +0000

According to some of the ridiculous logic used above doing this (embedding the video without the original web site content etc) with Hulu content would violate the terms of service.

By: Khürt Williams

Khürt Williams — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:00:48 +0000

Doesn't embedding the video (using Hulu's embed code) into a blog or any other web site do the same?