Hulu blocks Boxee’s access to public RSS feeds

Just less than a day after Boxee fetched the Hulu content back to its users, Hulu blocked Boxee's access to its content again. Boxee fetched back the Hulu content using public RSS feeds, but Hulu blocked Boxee's access to public RSS feeds on Friday.

Boxee's evangelist and adviser, Dave Mathews expressed extreme frustration on the cat and mouse between the two companies. Mathews said Hulu can't win the game.

Mathews said, "These guys are so shortsighted. It's an RSS reader. What our open-source community will do is just make the Boxee browser look at the Firefox browser." Mathews said Hulu is certainly blocking Boxee's browser.

"Boxee is one of the referring IDs. We do that on purpose. By excluding our browser they are making a biased move. It would be just like them shutting off Chrome. We're trying to empower the customer. From Day 1, we played by their game plan. We want a good relationship with them," Mathews said.

In a statement released on it's blog Friday afternoon, Boxee wrote, "To our users: if you choose to use Boxee as your media browser to view legal and publicly available content on the Internet, we will do everything we can to ensure that you can access it, no matter what the source... while some of the best things in life are free, sometimes you have to work hard to get them."

Boxee is a freeware cross-platform media center that streams Web video to television set-top boxes. Hulu is a website that provides commercial-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, Fox and many other networks and studios. Hulu has not yet offered any official comment on Friday's development. Last month, Hulu pulled its content from Boxee saying that its content suppliers want it to block Boxee's access to its content.

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