See, what they want to do is transplant the cable model onto the internet. I’m not a big fan of the cable model on television – we already have to pay twice for our shows, once by watching commercials, another by paying each month for a large number of channels, most of which they bundle and we don’t watch.

Frankly, I can just use bit-torrent as an alternative, and if they start charging, thats what I’ll do.

I would stop using hulu, personally. I cancelled my cable because I couldn’t afford it and there were alternative ways of watching the shows I enjoy. If they begin to charge, I’d rather not watch at all….so youdonut, shame on you for thinking we’re freeloaders. Some have had to find ways to afford to pay other bills that we have (paying my health care bills is more important than cable television). $49 dollars is a lot of money to those of us living to the very last penny at the end of the month, especially in the economy we live in (that’s 2 tanks of gas…not even).