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Submission + - Charging fees for Hulu comes with its own problems (yahoo.com)

zummit writes: Hulu's days as a free online video site could be ending soon.

Comedy Central's decision to yank two of the most popular shows on Hulu — "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" — in a dispute over splitting ad revenue is the latest blow to the entertainment industry's attempts to make money off ads that run with free video.

Yet Hulu's most viable alternative — charging for access to some videos — could turn off viewers and crimp the site's explosive growth. Ultimately, the remedy to Hulu's current troubles could leave the site even worse off, a poor shadow of its former self.

Comment Re:That much per month?? (Score 1) 217

> ... (The Denver Post) next year. I'm paying about $35/year for a Thursday-Sunday subscription

Just so everyone knows, the Monday Denver Post is little more than a pamphlet. The Tuesday edition is a little bigger but mostly advertisements. Wednesday you finally get an almost complete paper, so that Thursday-Sunday deal is really the best way to get the Denver Post.

[I myself am still a sucker having just renewed for 7 days a week.]

Comment The Story of Stuff (Score 1) 199

"From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever."

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Comment Re:Huh. (Score 1) 148

It's hugely positive for the business types who keep pushing micropayments as the thing that will save the Internet, despite the fact that they've been tried several times before and have been a dismal failure.

IMO, micropayments have failed thus far due to the lack of a trusted micropayment aggregator. Perhaps Apple/iPhone is that trusted aggregator.

Note: I do not own an iPhone. :-)

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