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Last week, Fox stopped offering new episodes of its TV shows for free on Hulu the day after their original air date. The site’s unpaid subscribers now have to wait up to eight days until they can watch new episodes.
The reasoning behind the change, Fox said, was to keep people from cord-cutting, and to increase revenue from live TV. But according to TorrentFreak, the new restrictions have backfired: Instead of paying for shows or watching them live, an increasing number of viewers are just downloading them illegally.
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