I first analyzed the traffic from the hulu player using FireBug. I then decided to write a quick python web server (based on BaseHTTPServer that responded with the following):
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HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: BaseHTTP/0.3 Python/2.5.4
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:34:37 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.4 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:06:33 GMT
ETag: "1f5c4-3-432df137e9040"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 3
P3P: policyref="http://web.lightningcast.net/w3c/p3p.xml",CP="NON DSP COR CURa TAIo PSDo OUR IND PHY DEM STA LOC"
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
ok
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127.0.0.1 stats5.lightningcast.net
127.0.0.1 stats6.lightningcast.net
127.0.0.1 stats5.lightningcast.com
127.0.0.1 stats6.lightningcast.com
127.0.0.1 stats5.lightningcast.net
127.0.0.1 ads.hulu.com
Obviously, due to the steps involved this is all more of an academic exercise than a solution for people to avoid hulu ads en-mass, so lets try to avoid getting into a discussion of ethics.