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. The move is clearly an attempt ...

Netflix’s (NFLX) new video encoding technology encodes Netflix’s video catalog on the Amazon (AMZN) Web Services (or AWS) platform. The majority of Netflix’s data processing is done on AWS.

Thus rendering the new encoding, which scrambles direct URLs to video files and relies on a JavaScript translator to decrypt them in a browser, useless against stopping Boxee.