In this blog entry Kilar states, "Our content providers requested that we turn off access to our content via the Boxee product, and we are respecting their wishes." This sounds perfectly reasonable--Hulu certainly doesn't want to offend its content partners. Except Hulu's content partners and its overlords are one in the same--Fox and NBC. Given that relationship, a more genuine sentiment might read, "We told ourselves to turn off access to our content via the Boxee product, and we respected our wishes."

He then goes on to say:

"Our mission to make media dramatically easier and more user-focused has not changed and will not change."

Except, of course, by pulling the plug on Boxee and its access to the TV, Hulu has made a change that's completely Hulu/NBC/Fox-focused rather than user-focused. Television programming served to a computer and not the family TV is, in no way, easier. It's more difficult and more limiting. That's one reason Boxee is so popular. People Do Not Want To Watch TV On Their Computers.

And then this: