Hulu tries HTML encoding trick to protect streaming content

Hulu has apparently taken steps to thwart nontraditional browsers from accessing its video content by using JavaScript to encode and decode HTML sent to the browser.

Still, the JavaScript "fix" apparently wasn't a very complex one, as Millmore has already released an update to TunerFreeMCE that gets around the encoding process. Anyone can to employ the same tactics as Millmore, so it's not entirely clear why Hulu even bothered in the first place. Now, the company is just getting bad press for trying (poorly) to outsmart those who are already intent on getting around the system.