In a stunning move, Hulu asked tv.com and boxee to remove all Hulu content. This hurts both services with them now both having to look toward negotitiaing a deal directly with tv content providers which could hurt Hulu. Of course I’m sure Hulu didn’t want to do this, it was forced more by the content providers on Hulu, like Fox, and NBC for example who wanted this content removed.

What this means is that Boxee certainly won’t be nearly as good without the Hulu service, though they still add netflix support. TV.com was growing immensly, that is until most of their content was removed thanks to Hulu’s request.

Does this mean from now on we will all have to browse over to Hulu to watch all our favorite shows?

As Hulu’s CEO recently wrote: “Our content providers requested that we turn off access to our content via the Boxee product, and we are respecting their wishes. While we stubbornly believe in this brave new world of media convergence bumps and all we are also steadfast in our belief that the best way to achieve our ambitious, never-ending mission of making media easier for users is to work hand in hand with content owners. Without their content, none of what Hulu does would be possible, including providing you content via Hulu.com and our many distribution partner websites.”

Overall we get the impression that content providers are getting worried that users will start switching over from cable with such easy ways to watch shows online. With such an intuative system, cable companies and content providers are starting to get worried…