Hulu is driving me to piracy!

Oh Hulu, what have you done?

First let me tell you a story… In the not so distant past, there was a man who had most of his television programming coming through a fancy little protocol called BitTorrent.  Tvrss.net was his friend.  They had everything he could possibly want and it was available almost as soon as the episode had actually finished airing.  Life was good.

Then Hulu came strolling into town.  Oh what a dazzling temptress you were…

We’ve had some good times, but now what is this?  Programming that I am interested in is now being delayed?  What kind of crap is this?  I thought we had a deal?

As of lately, for certain programs, there seems to be a several day delay from the time it was aired to the time it appears on Hulu.  What makes it worse?  They even have the episode listed with the air date and now just display a placeholder like the one above.  Well isn’t that a kick in the trousers?!  It’s moves like this that break the users trust.  People seem to be OK with watching the ads.  People seem OK with having only a limited amount of episodes.  First it was the rumor of switching to a paid service and now this!

Looks like I may need to fire up the old BitTorrent client again.  I really have no other reason to but you’re backing me into a corner here.  Yeah I’m talking to you, Hulu.