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But it did fail. For those 21 million people, the video stopped or it kicked them out or there were audio problems.

I am not sure why the article plugged some obscure video streaming software. CNN.com already does peer to peer video transferring via a flash plugin that it forces you to download.

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I haven't seen anything that says all 21 million people had problems. All I see is another sensationalistic headline from TechCrunch.

There is a plug at the end because that's how blogs make money; by selling links and paid mentions.

They probably didn't make it up. I watched on Hulu and it had real problems for me, too. And CNN was impossible. It's possible most Internet users have never even heard of Hulu, and they were the best case.

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