Soon, you'll have to pay for Hulu

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.
You can't do this to me!
I rely on Hulu BECAUSE it is free versus the iTunes 3 dollars for 24 minutes of 30 rock.

F'n LAME! and super intelligent. don't shoot yourself in the foot hulu.

I wonder if hulu realizes that it is the free content that calls in people. If they make us pay for it, their traffic is going to hit rock bottem. And with no traffic they'll have no base.

We do have to pay for it by watching commercials (which I'm fine with). If they start making us pay, I'll never visit again.

even if Hulu does this, someone else will create the same kind of site for free and we will all go there... don't go burning bridges you can't replace hulu....

Hulu should be free. When people miss their TV shows they go to Hulu to see the missed episodes. If Hulu goes pay only then people will go back to P2P file sharing to see free TV episodes and stop using Hulu.

I thought Hulu was making hand over fist in profits from advertising? I guess not.

Sucks for us to don't have cable. Ah well. I don't care too much for tv anyway.

let's see, AOL tanks, ex leader takes over Hulu, changes things to be like AOL...Hulu tanks...logical progression

That's hilarious.

What's the logic here? free TV for money? No way!

I don't think a replacement for this could make it. With the big networks with all the content and all the loot, I don't see a replacement surviving. If anything they should keep it free, but add a premium membership which eliminates commercials and some other add-ons, blah blah blah, greedy fookers

All good things come to an end. But they shouldn't.

I agree with 99.9% of the people posting across the internet; charging for Hulu will be step one of its demise. The whole reason Hulu took off like it did is that the content it offered was free to watch, minus the commercials. And hey, if Seth MacFarlane likes Hulu the way it is, who are we to argue!

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look into it.

Fooking aliens...what did you expect?

All the commercials told you it was coming.

Bee Ess!

I'm surprised over the amount of people here who are fuming over Hulu's proposition. Do you guys really think it would be free forever? They have to pay for bills and other expenses too what did you expect?

I'm not one to pay for a premium fee but they could get a lot of revenue if they have a free service and a premium service that gives you great extras. Like behind the scenes, different camera angles, script, ect.

High-quality video? hahaha

It may be high quality compared to YouTube, but most of the shows on Hulu are standard definition (and very pixelated at that). So paying for video quality that's lower than a TV broadcast would be stupid.

If they charge for shows normally on cable, that would make sense. But charging for shows that are free anyway is just ridiculous.

The advertising business is hurting and it appeared that hulu was going to save advertising in some way, a little bit, or at least in their mind still be able to get those ads across to the viewers. Since hulu forces you to watch commercials and all. (which isn't too bad as of now.)
As it was stated before, if hulu goes to a pay site, it will just force more people back to p2p and other sources to get their shows where ads cannot be reached. Hell, most network TV websites stream their most popular shows anyway!
The way it is right now, at least advertisers are able to get some of their messages across to the viewer.
With all these hulu alien commercials on TV, I actually thought that the entertaining business (and ad companies) were smartening up to how rapidly the industry is changing. Because you cannot fight this, the cat is out of the bag so to speak!
Companies either go with the flow and find new revenue streams without upsetting the consumer, such as hulu, in this ever changing world that the net has spawned. Or risk becoming obsolete and unnecessary altogether.
I mean to say, why would someone pay for content that is already out there for free distribution. Hulu and the advertising companies would be shooting themselves in the foot if they made it a pay site. I know that I would stop using it. Then all those aliens would be so disappointed that our brains are not turned into goo! lol
But really, what I thought hulu was trying to achieve was finding a new media outlet that had some ads but people would still use. Almost like hulu understood consumer demand for less ads and more content. Don't get too greedy hulu, or the honeymoon period will be over before you knew it even started.
Viva la Pirates!!!! Viva la Revolution!!!!

I think Hulu should stay free, I am sick and tired of everything having to be commercial or fee based on the internet.

If it's gonna be like this, and in reality digital content you pay for is really worth nothing and serial numbers can easily be hacked or stolen.

It seems like why pay to get on the internet if you have to pay for?

Why waste $40 just to buy digital downloads when you could just goto a internet cafe or free internet providers?

Why pay to get online if you have to pay more?

I think stuff should always be free on the internet, thats what makes the internet wonderful, if everything has to be licensed, locked down, controlled, and fee based then it's not worth it buying virtual stuff.

Even the Sims is worth more then all the pirated content on the internet because at least you get a CD and extras when you pay for it.

For those who think file sharing or downloading is stealing, (1)many don't make a penny off of publicly sold content, (2)They legally paid for it themselves and decide to share it with others, (3)nothing it taken, digital files aren't worth anything because they are very fragile and can be wiped/deleted/ccorrupted easily, by hackers, viruses, or some other unknown cause, and (4)For those who make money off of other peoples works it is wrong because thats like exploitation.

Like when I was trying to download a copy of DOS or Windows 95 to play an old game Lost Eden one site charged for abandoned or discontinued software downloads, those are the real pirates that should be gone after.

I also believe that if Piracy has to stop then why not just have the copyright term as 5 years where when software or anything copyrighted gets old it gets put in the public domain.

Should they do this, Hulu will lose me for sure and am sure many others will follow suit.People's monies are stench to the max these days and I for one am jobless as are many others and am sure many more Americans will become jobless as well and for the working class I don't see things improving at all.

This goes way beyond stupid!

Title should read:
Soon, you'll have to leave Hulu

The one thing that these big media companies still don't get is that the Internet thrives on free, ad-supported content. Give out free content and the eyeballs attract advertisers which come with money. These execs can't get around the idea of subscription models because they think their content is similar to movies and music. Movies you might watch a few times, and music you repeat until you've memorized the lyrics. TV shows are unique because you typically only watch a show once.
There should be no cost unless you download it for keeps.

If they do it will probably be an optional thing with benefits. Maybe streaming to home entertainment PCs and no commercials.