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Rights holders maintain control over where their content can be played. Hulu has to get permission for where a show can be played. There was a great post on Google+ a while back by someone well known... can't remember who that said exactly this: DRM is about control over hardware makers.

EDIT: Ah, found it, Ian Hickson: https://plus.google.com/107429617152575897589/posts/iPmatxBY...



Isn't that true of Netflix as well? Why is Netflix seemingly able to negotiate so much better than Hulu?


Aside from their own projects, I don't think Netflix gets episodes from the current seasons of popular TV shows the way Hulu does.


Because Netflix doesn't have episodes that aired the day before.




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