South Park to be Available For Free in Its Entirety, Only on Hulu

[walrusaurus]

Sounds more like a downgrade to me, considering that there's already a site that offers every episode for free, and officially to boot.

Also, what's with episodes 200 and 201 that got them banned/removed?

200 and 201 came out shortly after the big controversy with a Dutch(?) newspaper printing a comic depicting Muhammad and the subsequent riots that followed. 200 and 201 was south parks spoof on that. there was a lot of other really random things in those episodes, but thats what i believe got them banned.

On topic: gotta love it when companies take something they used to provide for free and slap it behind a paywall. I 100% guarantee that piracy of south park episodes will increase by 1000% once this takes effect.

 

[Roofstone]

Isn't it already free on southparkstudios? This seems redundant, no?

And it is not really free, it is Hulu.

 

[GabeZhul]

Sounds more like a downgrade to me, considering that there's already a site that offers every episode for free, and officially to boot.

Also, what's with episodes 200 and 201 that got them banned/removed?

200 and 201 came out shortly after the big controversy with a Dutch(?) newspaper printing a comic depicting Muhammad and the subsequent riots that followed. 200 and 201 was south parks spoof on that. there was a lot of other really random things in those episodes, but thats what i believe got them banned.

On topic: gotta love it when companies take something they used to provide for free and slap it behind a paywall. I 100% guarantee that piracy of south park episodes will increase by 1000% once this takes effect.

I dunno where you are getting your information, but that had nothing to do with the censorship and banning. It was that some small Islam extremist group called "Revolution Muslim", which was pretty much just two guys, issued a "warning" to Parker and Stone that there would be consequences to airing a picture of Muhammad(something some might remember being a joke in the Family Guy Cancellation episode), at which point Comedy Central shit their pants and censored the episode without the creators' knowledge. Because, you know, it's not like the entire point of terrorism is using fear of violence to get their way or anything, and giving in to their demands would be pretty much telling them that terrorism works, amirite?

 

[Often]

Isn't it already free on southparkstudios? This seems redundant, no?

Again, it's not redundant, it's a downgrade. They were available at south park studios, but after the season 18 premier, only a revolving selection will be available there.

 

[walrusaurus]

Sounds more like a downgrade to me, considering that there's already a site that offers every episode for free, and officially to boot.

Also, what's with episodes 200 and 201 that got them banned/removed?

200 and 201 came out shortly after the big controversy with a Dutch(?) newspaper printing a comic depicting Muhammad and the subsequent riots that followed. 200 and 201 was south parks spoof on that. there was a lot of other really random things in those episodes, but thats what i believe got them banned.

On topic: gotta love it when companies take something they used to provide for free and slap it behind a paywall. I 100% guarantee that piracy of south park episodes will increase by 1000% once this takes effect.

I dunno where you are getting your information, but that had nothing to do with the censorship and banning. It was that some small Islam extremist group called "Revolution Muslim", which was pretty much just two guys, issued a "warning" to Parker and Stone that there would be consequences to airing a picture of Muhammad(something some might remember being a joke in the Family Guy Cancellation episode), at which point Comedy Central shit their pants and censored the episode without the creators' knowledge. Because, you know, it's not like the entire point of terrorism is using fear of violence to get their way or anything, and giving in to their demands would be pretty much telling them that terrorism works, amirite?

I've never actually known why it was banned, hence the 'i believe.' If thats what happened then thats pretty messed up seeing as Muhammad was never actually shown in the episode, that was the whole joke. They get Muhammad to come to south park but he has to walk around in a giant bear costume because you're not allowed to look at him.

 

[Snotnarok]

Hulu never made sense, you pay a subscription fee and still get commercials...what? Yes, you do the same for TV bla bla bla other competing services don't have that sooo why are people onboard with that demented service?

 

[Omnicrom]

Hulu never made sense, you pay a subscription fee and still get commercials...what? Yes, you do the same for TV bla bla bla other competing services don't have that sooo why are people onboard with that demented service?

It's especially puzzling to me since Netflix for whatever its faults doesn't have ads at all. Frankly "Hulu without ads at all!" would be an utterly amazing carrot to bait people into Plus, but no you only get the slightly smaller stick of "Maybe 1 fewer ad per video". Hulu have suggested eventually (maybe in 2 to 3 years time) they'll eventually have a third super-tier of no ads at all, but it's frustrating for them to sell an unpremium premium service.

 

[crazygameguy4ever]

they act like this is the first time the entire series has been available for free

 

[soren7550]

Sounds more like a downgrade to me, considering that there's already a site that offers every episode for free, and officially to boot.

Also, what's with episodes 200 and 201 that got them banned/removed?

200 and 201 came out shortly after the big controversy with a Dutch(?) newspaper printing a comic depicting Muhammad and the subsequent riots that followed. 200 and 201 was south parks spoof on that. there was a lot of other really random things in those episodes, but thats what i believe got them banned.

On topic: gotta love it when companies take something they used to provide for free and slap it behind a paywall. I 100% guarantee that piracy of south park episodes will increase by 1000% once this takes effect.

You mean the Cartoon Wars episodes? I though that those were fine (re-airing and availability wise).

 

[Strazdas]

exclusive to hulu? does this means they are removing episodes from their official website? i guess somone bribed them enough this time.

If it's only on Hulu, it's not free then. Besides, that's what South Park Studios is for!

No... Hulu's free service will have 'em too; this doesn't require Hulu Plus.

does not matter, hulu is only available in US [http://www.hulu.com/help/articles/171122] so the other 6 billion people get screwed.

...Not so kind to their international customers but that's because local law taxes them up the butts, and they can't share the US domain in the same breath. Sucks.

Grade A bullshit. You can allow streaming from their US site to worldwide without any extra taxes whatsoever. the main reason why streaming services is country specific is contracts as the mmonopolistic pigs copyright owners for whatever reason gets to decide what countries they want to let thier property shown. because that definatelly invokes science innovation (the reason copyright law was created).

 

[Snotnarok]

Hulu never made sense, you pay a subscription fee and still get commercials...what? Yes, you do the same for TV bla bla bla other competing services don't have that sooo why are people onboard with that demented service?

It's especially puzzling to me since Netflix for whatever its faults doesn't have ads at all. Frankly "Hulu without ads at all!" would be an utterly amazing carrot to bait people into Plus, but no you only get the slightly smaller stick of "Maybe 1 fewer ad per video". Hulu have suggested eventually (maybe in 2 to 3 years time) they'll eventually have a third super-tier of no ads at all, but it's frustrating for them to sell an unpremium premium service.

Yeah...no sense, I don't get who'd support Hulu with that in mind.
I mean, look at Amazon Prime that service is MENTAL, you get included 2-day shipping from the site and then their video service among some other things I've not touched.

So, just about ANY service is better than Hulu sooooo who's supporting it? I mean TV is just about the only thing Hulu beats.

 

[Kuuenbu]

South Park has been rendered in 16:9 HD since Season 5, yet everything prior to S13 is Pan-Scanned and bleeped on SPS last I checked. In order to get the majority of South Park in its authentic form, you have to luck out for a prime-time CC-HD re-run (all afternoon broadcasts are forced pan-scan with extra censorship) and dub the DVD audio over it.

If Hulu can provide the uncensored HD South Park content that SPS and CC will not, then I would say it is most definitely worth the price.