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Animated News Clips Fuel Debate on Media Freedom - NYTimes.com

The Taiwanese company that produced the Tiger Wood reenactment ran into problems in the past with its own government.

To their credit, they acknowledged their overzealousness:

“We were probably a little too excited by the technology and the ability to do what we couldn’t do before, and we went overboard,” he said. “We apologized.” But he dismissed the suggestion that Apple Daily was playing fast and loose with the facts, saying Action News shares the same reporting limitations as any news-gathering outfit. “We’re not pretending that this is exactly what happened,” said Mr. Chu. “We’re just using visual images to present what we believe, to the best of the journalist’s ability, to have happened.”

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The whole idea of Hulu is to provide a legal place to watch TV shows after they air, on demand, for free (with limited ads built in) as a revenue-generating alternative to the utter ease of just downloading those shows illegally from links provided by several dozen BitTorrent sites. That idea is a very good one. If people can get the shows they want to see (which are available free on TV anyway) easily enough, most of them will happily stream them and watch an ad or two and pass up pirated downloads. Apple built one hell of a business on the similar idea that people would pay 99 cents a song to download music that they could get for free as pirated downloads, if buying it was made easy enough. But the Powers That Be (basically, the content providers who created Hulu and supply the shows) draw the line at allowing you to watch television shows on (gasp!) a television set. You have to watch on a computer. Otherwise, you are an unworthy lout and they don’t want you as a customer. If you like TV on TV, they don’t want your business and keep your filthy eyes off their ads, thankyouverymuch! Huh?
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