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Hulu Coming To iPad At Launch?

July 29, 2010 by Andrea the Blogger  
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TV-Links.co.uk the infamous live internet tv website created in 2006 has won a legal case, 3 years after being shut down.
TV-links.co.uk became the biggest and
 best links site on the internet according to many, but was shut down in October 2007 by FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) in the UK. Its server was also shut down by the Dutch authorities. However a report on Torrentfreak.com says that the site should never have been closed in the rootage place..

 The hearing eventually happened in January and Torrentfreak reports that the label pink-slipped the case against the site, ruling that linking to TV shows wasn’t the same as distributing them.

 There is no appeal available to FACT against this ruling.
The Judge noted that FACT had not applied the Attorney General’s guidelines when decision making to prosecute the defendants with cabal to cozenage.
 

Although TV-Links.co.uk has never been back online, it has spawned a massive number of other TV show directories. The ramifications have yet to be felt, but in view of the verdict, will anyone else try to shut down a website that just links to the streaming content?

Sports vane ESPN are institution (or should that be relaunching?) a new online sports tv channel for sports hungry pc owners. They are rebranding the original ESPN360.com as ESPN3.com starting on April 4.  The channel will show 3,500 events per year.

ESPN3 For Sports Fans
A spokesman for the sports media giant said that the name change reflects the way the attach to progressively views the site, as a full-fledged third network that complements ESPN and ESPN 2.launching the new ESPN3.com network website on April 4th promising fans those hard to find games and alternative ways to watch sporting events.

 Sports that fans will be able to watch online include the NBA, college basketball, football, baseball, hockey, softball and lacrosse; the FIFA World Cup, European soccer games, Major League Baseball, the brief League World Series, the U.S. Open and The Masters golf tournament.
 

That iPad everyone keeps writing off seems to be acquiring more and more media attention.  At the launch of iPad, everyone was aghast that there was no flash player consolidation equalling no Hulu which relies on the player for its streaming.
 

However if we rewind back to the launch of the iPhone, there was similar constination that YouTube was not well-matched, however during the weeks leading up to launch,  The same thing now appears to be happening with Hulu and the iPad.
 

The lack of Flash support on a device that seems perfect for watching videos has always been a puzzler. But it appears that Hulu is already hard at work on an iPad reading more of its website. Now, we don’t know if this is actually going to be a Hulu app, similar to what YouTube has on the iPhone, or if Hulu is simply shift up it’s Flash player and adding support for HTML5.

So all iPad lovers and followers, get drooling even more because you may well be able to watch hit tv shows rom day one. And even if its not available at the launch, you can watch tv episodes for $1 instead.

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