Annoyed with Hulu

It’s been almost two weeks since it’s happened.

Yes, the entire blocking of the PS3 browser by Hulu. And you can’t begin to understand how annoying it is. If the rumors that Microsoft is paying them to block PS3 browser is true, that doesn’t give me any thumbs up for anything by Microsoft either. Which means, if that ever gets out, Microsoft is going to lose a lot of potential multi-console buyers.

Either way? What’s strange is that the error that we’re getting is:

Based on your IP address, we noticed you are trying to access Hulu through an anonymous proxy tool. Hulu is not currently available outside the U.S. If you’re in the U.S., you’ll need to disable your anonymizer to access videos on Hulu.

Hate to break it to ya, Hulu, but your detection scheme isn’t working too well considering the fact that our IP is a legitimate US Time Warner address and it works fine on both our personal PCs which would tell me that they’re targeting the PS3 browser. Super lame, considering you’re a content carrier and much of your revenue stream comes from advertisement that you would assume needs more eyeballs on them as opposed to less. Terrible strategy deployment move.

For now, the block has really thrown a barrier up as to what we access on Hulu which also means that we don’t really access it at all since that was one of our weekly gigs. Sad part for Hulu is that from what I can tell from looking at the research for their budgets? It can’t be good to be limiting the viewership unless there was a huge payment of sorts that covered not only the money lost by the viewers but the money that would be lost throughout the time period.