Boxee vs Hulu
NBC president and CEO Jeff Zucker was asked this question, “What about Boxee?” Zucker replied:
“This was a decision made by the Hulu management to, uh, what Boxee was doing was illegally taking the content that was on Hulu without any business deal. And, you know, all, all the, we have several distributors, actually many distributors of the Hulu content that we have legal distribution deals with so we don’t preclude distribution deals. What we preclude are those who illegally take that content.”
Boxee CEO: “We didn’t ‘take’ video”
Boxee CEO Avner Ronen had his own say on Zucker’s statement. He writes in his blog:
I’d like to set the record straight regarding Boxee’s access to Hulu. Boxee uses a web browser to access Hulu’s content – just like Firefox or Internet Explorer. Boxee users click on a link to Hulu’s website and the video within that page plays. We don’t “take” the video. We don’t copy it. We don’t put ads on top of it. The video and the ads play like they do on other browsers or on Hulu Desktop. And it certainly is legal to do so. …
There are now close to a million people using Boxee. When they watch shows from Hulu they are watching the ads and generate real revenues to NBC.
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