Hulu to start charging in 2010

hulu was my best friend

Well, goodbye hulu, you were fun while you lasted. Clearly these people don't understand the internet. We like things to be free, put as many adds as you want, but make us pay a fee and we'll find it free some place else.

How many times do companies have to make this mistake before they realize that charging for content *doesn't work*? The Internet giveth, and the Internet taketh away. :(

It's so stupid how late people are HULU SAID THAT THIS IS A LIE! THEY AREN'T CHARGING PEOPLE IN 2010!

It makes sense. The advertising model doesn't work well anymore, since no one pays attention to them. They'll probably charge you $10-15 a month to watch a wide variety of programming on demand. People pay more than that for cable, which has limited on demand content and 16 minutes of advertisements per hour.

This just in... number of people visiting hulu website plummets in 2010. Leading experts to wonder how this once popular website tanked so quickly.

They don't make enough with the commercials? They'll end up with nothing if they charge a sub fee.

i will wait for a new website to pop up that is free. bye bye hulu.

Bad decision for Hulu. Everyone will go

Rest In Peace, Hulu. Another web giant destroyed by the likes of greed and corporation.

Well, back to tpb.

It was nice while it lasted. I already pay a lot for internet service and the speed to watch uninterrupted video. PBS video is still free!

We are already paying for much to much already like for me I pay for Comcast broadband/Dish Network TV/Netflix/Cellphone/ the occasional ITunes. Enough. We give enough to these greedy tv money bl**d suckers. I know Hulu is probably getting pressured to charge from those tv studio never get enough idi*ts. What get's me is they have been giving it to us free & then we are forced to watch there suckage advertisements & now we need to charge you, yea skype tryed the same thing by giving us free calls to any phone anywhere in the USA for free for one year & then they said now we want money & look at them they are still hanging on with the thanks of Oprah using Skype on her show & other shows, but they tend to use mostly the free versions like computer to computer but for how long? We are already getting ripped off especially us in california, now another bill to pay(yum yum just what we all have been waiting for more money to pay out in a recession time, Real smart Hulu). Good luck after you go out of business. I simply do not care because there are so many other sites that it really makes no difference what these idi*ts want. Netflix is worth the money is Hulu? & I say no, most of the time these idi*ts can't get a single whole season, most of the crap on there site is dog on little clips which I then adjust the filter for just full episodes & whats left only two full episode shows & why because these studio Big Biz tv idi*ts want more & more because they don't have enough planes & boats & 100 room castles, oh no these greedy (you know whats) must have more, look I pay enough for all the crap that I pay for now, well all I can say when Hulu goes to pay I & others will be going away because we have other sites & the best at it (NETFLIX) Yea Baby. Oh well T*RRENTTTTTTTT & ENCRYTED VPN TUNNEL sound real nice right about now (ha ha).

Looks like i will be going back too bittorrent for tv shows I miss. Shame that i wont be able to watch show legally hulu was my dvr lol this is a bad move on hulu's part corporate greed will not get this site anywhere!

Pay for HULU. When they put more ads towards the end of the movie. R.I.P., so how about just rest.......... The product warrants letting it die rather than consider taking(or trying to) funds for this site. There are others that are far better and have no ads either.

lame!

though you had to see this coming, I don't think hulu has reached that point yet, where many/any of us would participate in a pay to play model. I can't see paying for hulu, as it exists today

this story gets retold a thousand times, ever since hulu's launch. same thing with facebook.

I barely use it as a free site..Why the hell would I pay for it?

So, who wants to go bootleggin?

It was a good run...

I enjoy Hulu, and I click an ad or two if they catch my interest. But if they start charging, adios, because the free content they will continue to offer will probably be so crappy it's supposed to make you join the pay service.

I don't want to go outside! Murdoch, I'll pay whatever you want.

i threw away my t.v. when "kings" was canceled. been watching hours of hulu daily. bye. hulu i'll just milk another bull.

so...it IS an evil plot to take over the world.

Hulu is/was appreciated by fans all over the world for basically one reason: Hulu takes all of the FREE TV SHOWS that the NETWORKS post on their OWN WEBSITE and keep it one tidy little site. Now, you can't watch your HBO shows or your Showtime movies, because that's just crazy talk, but you can get basic free cable for free online. Which you pay for.
Because the internet isn't free. And once you have the internet, you can watch ANY BASIC TELEVISION NETWORK SHOW FOR FREE - AND LEGALLY. Because, let this be said.. THE NETWORKS PUT THEIR SHOWS UP FOR FREE. Jesus H. Christ. So.. why in God's name would we ever pay for this?

NewsCorp is the most arrogant media company ever. Does Murdoch really believe we will pay to watch their garbage while so much free content out there? Buh bye.

lol

I'd appriciate it more if you allow out of US people to watch. we have actors and PT crew working on your shows and we cant watch? F you Hulu.

Just wait until Google starts charging, or ANY news outlet.

This is only the beginning. There will be no free internet. The days of the Wild Wild West are over.

But the internet is crack. We'll all come back with our tails between our legs.

R.I.P. Hulu. I will no longer make use of your services.

I bet this is Rupert Murdoch's secret idea of getting revenge on the online community that hates fox news.

If they start charging they won't have as many users as they have now...

(Cut-scene to VP OFFICE @ HULU HQ WHERE 2 SUITS TALK SHOP)

Hulu Exec 1: Duh...we have so many...duh...users now...let's start charging a fee...

Hulu Exec 2: That's a GREAT idea...doi...why didn't we think of that before??? (drools on self)

"Why buy the cow when you get the sex for free."

-ThePirateBay

GAY.

wrong way to do things... They havn't learned from the internet?

Tis a shame...I will stop using hulu as soon as they start charging.

MrTangent you are right... they understood, and they could have had something unique that they could have used to their advantage as long as they kept it free. But greed gets everybody, especially americans so this was to be expected.

web boycott this!!!

Typical of Rupert Murdoch's strategies. He wants to charge us all for online news content too. The man is 100% pure penis.

hulu to go out of business in 2010

dang.. I was just getting use to not loading up my HHD with tv shows[torrents].. I hope the keep their free model and just offer a premium one..

It is what it is.... if they start charging for it then it ceases to be what it is....

But theres commercials??? They're getting paid. How much more money do you guys need???? You're not Netflix, get over it.

fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.....

B..b...but HOW DARE Hulu charge for their services? WHY can they not see that they should CONTINUE to do what they do FOR FREE because that's WHAT WE WANT!!!!! HOW DARE THEY think they should be paid for their services???? It's not faaaiiirrr, I tell you!!

But wait! I think I'll just start MY OWN HULU, and gather lots of other workers to put together a site just like Hulu's, and I know my friends will all agree to come to work EVERY DAY FOR NO PAY, just because they LIKE to.

This sucks & it will kill Hulu.

rip hulu

theyre gonna have a major decline in users once that happens

This sucks...

Of course they are going to start charging.
News Corp is FOX!
Youman
Note to Current....
NEVER SELL OUT!
Youman

If they wanted to charge, they should've done that before they put it out for free. Now their going to be 95% less popular.

their going to make it free again after this, or else their company will die.

Yeah. I actually didn't mind the 30-60 second commercials. It was a time saver and sure as heck beats 5 minutes of commercials.

I guess i'm going to have to go to torrent and websites with shady advertisements.

Looks like I'll be using fancast. One of the things I like about hulu is the GUI and their system didn't seem as buggy as fancast. If fancast can solve those problems they will fill the void nicely. Then they will get tires of their new found profit and decide they need more money and the process will repeate itself.

well that blows i guess as soon as 2010 i will be un bookmarking

goodbye hulu

Apparently Hulu never heard of AdCritic.com and it's story.

I will stop watching when they begin to charge--also, I still need to dig into this a little more, but there is net neutrality--but, since many news papers are failing, corporations are talking about how to start charging us for information on the Internet. So, I'm sure that will be coming around the corner as well.

2010, they say...

Well, if you want to be that way. Goodbye hulu! It was nice while it lasted.

Dear Hulu,

You used to get it. Now you don't. This will just drive more people to torrents. It will also eventually be your undoing.

Yours,
Soon-To-Be-Former Hulu User

Hulu is a grain of sand on the beach.

www.OVGuide.com

you're welcome.

All good things must come to an end.

I hope they crash and burn after they start charging and then go back and make it free again.

they are going to go out of bussnise after that because than there will be another website that will be just like hulu and every one will forget about hulu.
the end begins agian. lol

GREAT!!!!

This really sucks...who in there right mind wants to waste more money on shows that just suck (Besides all of those shows shown on local Tv - FOR FREE!!!!). This is a load of crap that I have to hear from them? Okay, so what's the point of putting these commercials on your site after we pay this little fee...or whatever the cost is to watch something?

Besides...we are bombarded by advertisements every f*king day in the american media. Besides...how come local tv is free? umm...ads support those stations!

But we already watch ads so it's not totally "free" right now anyways. Damn.

its been said before, but ill say it again because my words have much more value. RIP HULU

I watch a lot on hulu just because it's free and easy to navagate. This is a real downer Oh well i will have to wait an see what happens

Who knew? Hulu ftl, back to good old torrents.

RIP the good ol days.

I don't get these people. Its just like cable, they want to charge you out the nose and then fill everything with commercials. You already paid your money, so why do you need commercials too? It just proves how out of touch these people are. I have been growing more and more tired of web content because they keep inserting more commercials, so I am with everyone else, I will find some other way to download it, even if it is two or three days after its original air date.

Fuck that

My love for hulu came from the fact i DIDN'T have to pay, and that i had no need to watch TV.

I could stand the adds for the shows.

I cant stand paying for something that has been free and i have been part of since the beginning.

I went to hulu out of convenience sometimes. But if that is the route they are going I'll just be patient and torrent the shows I want to to watch.

Once they start charging I'm done with it. Those commercials they talk about taking over the world jokingly have a sarcastic truth to them. DAMN YOU ALEC BALDWIN!!!

No!

Well, we all knew this was coming, and if not then you weren't paying attention. It shouldn't be surprising... they're aliens. That's how they roll.

Ninjavideo.net

Better than Hulu and none of those pesky ads.

R.I.P. hulu.

but maybe if they are smart they will bring in newer movies to the ppl who pay.

in all realness i hope they dont do this.

That's too bad, the day they start charging is the day I stop watching... I use it to watch shows I don't have time to watch according to my schedule so I watch them 'on the go', once it becomes an inconvenience to pay I will just start using my DVR again.

of course it was News Corp who decided to do this...aka Fox. Way to ruin another good thing guys.

carey's quote is a load of bull... they want more money and don't give a crap whether or not we "appreciate the value" of the content. obviously we appreciate the value of the content- don't we put up with their damn advertisements?

This just in, I will stop using Hulu 2010.

RIP hulu