What is Hulu™?
Hulu™ is a web site launched in early 2008 that is built to stream video to users. Unlike many previous streaming video sites, which made illegal use of commercial properties from television and video, Hulu™ does everything entirely legally, appropriately licensing content from the copyright holders. It funds itself via advertising, which runs both in sidebars on the site and also in short clips either at the beginning of the video or at regular intervals during the viewing. The two owners of the site are Fox Entertainment Group and NBC Universal, two of the largest television networks. This partnership enables Hulu™ to distribute a large amount of popular programming, which helped it quickly gain critical mass and entice other providers to join it as well. Currently Hulu™ features shows and clips from USA, FX, SPEED, E!, Oxygen, Bravo, PBS, G4, and Comedy Central, among others. The bulk of popular shows on Hulu™, however, come from either Fox or NBC. A number of older shows have begun
