For some reason, I have a subscription to Hulu Plus. As far as I can tell, this subscription only allows me to view freely-available Hulu content on a device other than my laptop or desktop computer.
Recently, I started thinking about this: watching Hulu content through an app on my Wii or Kindle Fire or Nexus 7 or Toshiba Thrive is EXACTLY the same as watching this same content on my laptop, yet there is a serious divide in the media producers'/distributors' minds that watching this content is somehow significantly different.
I'm just a simple guy, but to me all of these distinctions seem very artificial to me. I can see a difference between broadcast TV, physical media, and online broadcast (sort of on the last two). But to further subdivide online broadcast is an arbitrary separation designed to extract more money.
I'm all for companies making an honest buck, but to turn vampire and suck as much as possible? No, I don't cotton to that.
