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by nextparadigms 5477 days ago
Does anyone else think Hulu would be a good acquisition for Google, especially now that they have Google TV? It would've been better if they bought Netflix a while ago, but Hulu seems to be like the next best thing. Plus, it's based on ads and everything.
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AllenKids 5477 days ago
The second Google purchases Hulu, the site's content licenses will be revoked by All the providers and they'll demand a renegotiation of far more favorible deal.

Hulu was only able to stay afloat because it was backed by FOX NBC and Disney, and got all those shows at a heavily discounted price. The networks were very cautious to not create an iTunes for TV that would grow to be too big to control, they use very restrictive and short term content license to ensure that.

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notatoad 5477 days ago
it doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. youtube is perfectly capable of negotiating for contracts with content owners, they don't need another property to do that.

the reason most TV shows aren't on youtube is not because the content owners don't like youtube, it's because the content owners and google can't agree on acceptable terms. buying hulu won't change that.

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_shane 5477 days ago
It would make a lot more sense from a revenue standpoint than when they purchased YouTube. Viacom has beef with Google TV so I wonder what would happen to all the Viacom offerings on Hulu if that were to happen.

http://www.gtvhub.com/2010/11/21/comedy-central-mtv-nickelod...

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