Don't get too attached to all that free, high-quality video on Hulu. It just might disappear behind a pay wall before too long.

Speaking last night at an Internet Week event sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter, Jonathan Miller, News Corp.'s newly-installed chief digital officer, said he envisions a future where at least some of the TV shows and movies on Hulu, the premium video site co-owned by News Corp. (NWS), NBC Universal and Disney (DIS), are available only to subscribers.

Miller, whose last job was running AOL (parent of Daily Finance), prefaced his remark by noting that he won't attend his first Hulu board meeting until Monday, so the scenario he foresees is merely his own speculation. But, he continued, "in my opinion the answer could be yes. I don't see why over time that shouldn't happen. I don't think it's on the agenda for Monday [but] it seems to me that over time that could be a logical thing."

And considering that Miller is in charge of coordinating News Corp.'s efforts to find new ways to get consumers to pay for digital content generated by News Corp.'s properties -- which include Fox Television, Fox News, 20th Century Fox films, The Wall Street Journal and much more -- his definition of what's logical is likely to carry a lot of weight.

There is some variation out there about whether everything will be under a subscription or just premium content, but the indications I've seen is that everything will end up under subscription. You can find plenty more articles on Google.

What I wnat to say in response to this is - bad move, Hulu. I (and I am sure many others) were willing to watch the advertisements instead of pirating the shows. I enjoyed Hulu and was excited that it has expanded since its inception to add more shows that I watched. It was going good in its current format, that was until some stupid exec got the idea that people who were willing to watch the advertisements are going to be willing to pay subscriptions fees. To which I say, Uh, no.

Great job on the execs part in reversing all the ground made in bringing people in, away from piracy, to turning us around and driving us back to the Internet to downloading. Stupid move on Hulu's part. Hopefully someone explains this to execs before it is too late and they implement this asinine business model.