Ok, I've been invited in the new hulu.com private beta. I'm really interested in this new ways to deliver contents to the (web) public, so on my pc I have both joost and babelgum clients, and also Miro.
Enter Hulu: in this case I don't need any new client, everything is delivered thru the standard browser. The layout and dynamics of the interface is quite cool, I like this site.
Ok then, let's go and try to access some content. I see an episode from "The Simpsons" highlighted in the first page, I click on it.
Uhm... the player returns a message stating that: "Unfortunately this video is not currently available in your country or region".
Ok, I'll try with some other clip. House? ok, let's give it a try.
...same message. And also the same message pops up with every single choice I try.
Now I'm asking: is it caused by the fact that I live in Italy? and probably they cannot "broadcast" those content due to a DRM problem or something of the like? The support pages tell me that "For now, Hulu is a U.S. service only."
Ok, fine. But in this precise moment I could be anywhere in the world, I'm in the "internet" country... or I could be a US citizen, living temporarily in Italy, or again I could be an italian citizen, temporarily living in Iceland, or Morocco, or even USA.
So please explain this to me: I know I could simply go on YouTube and look for that Simpsons episode, and probably I'll find it; and there are many other way to access that video, but... but yes, I liked the Hulu idea, site, and contents, and I was excited to use it.
Annoying.
p.s.: no, I cannot modify my profile, the site doesn't permit this at the moment... I already checked ;-)
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