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Big fan of streaming your favorite shows on Hulu? Bad news might be on the horizon. FOX has announced their plans to restrict online streaming of their latest shows to Hulu+ or verification of a subscription with a cable provider, such as Dish Network. If not, you’ll have to wait eight days before you can catch up on your missed episode.

So if you missed this week’s episode, there’s no way of catching up (without being a paid subscriber) to watch the next week’s episode back on TV. Will this really curb FOX’s fears of cord cutters or will it simply drive users back to illegal downloads and streams? While FOX is the first broadcast network to implement such a policy, it may not be the last. This could be the start of a very walled future.