Barbara Turk, executive director of the Y.W.C.A. of Brooklyn, said the decision to drop the program had been made quickly, after auditors found the Y had been running deficits for years and owed nearly $450,000.
Over all, complaints about deficiencies in the program have been made by elected officials, owners of companies that were in the trade center and businesses that are elsewhere in Lower Manhattan.
No loans under the program have been made by the Energy Department since then, and several companies have withdrawn their applications this year because of tightened guidelines for the program, which Congress created in 2007 to encourage the development of fuel-saving technologies.
The deal was notable not only for the shows' exclusivity to Hulu, which indicates an aggressive bid on the Hulu's part, but also because it represents the first time some of the programming has been made available to stream on demand at all.
The boy's father told the Australian newspaper in December that the program had been making progress.
By then, it was too late to do anything but add a slide at the beginning saying that the programs had been made before the attacks on the World Trade Center.
A majority, 57 percent, said that the leaks about the surveillance programs would not affect the ability of the United States to prevent future terrorist attacks, while 30 percent said the fact that the programs had been made public would weaken the government's efforts to prevent terrorism.
The Rialto program has been made possible, in large part, by recent changes in copyright law.
