As one of the earlier posts pointed out, the BBC is funded by a government mandated tax (which actually pays for other things as well), and thus is not illegal...
It's also theoretically independent of the government (unlike some other state broadcasters), with it's management being at arms length via the Commons Media committee's* oversight of the BBC trust who in turn monitor the BBC to ensure it's run in line with it's charter (which iirc does specify it should be editorially independent of the government), and the BBC tends to be quite critical about the government fairly often, regardless of who is in power (unlike a lot of state broadcasters that will never make any real criticism of their governments).
I got through about 30 seconds of the video right up until he came out with the line "I realised the BBC is a propaganda machine for big corperations" amd saw the caption for a 7/7 conspiracy :/
Personally whilst I don't watch a great deal of stuff on the BBC, I do find it a heck of a lot better than most of the commercial broadcasters whose interest is primarily "will this get the viewers my advertisers want" and "Will this upset X if this programme says their product is rubbish"
You need a TVL if you watch or record any Live TV in the UK.
It doesn't matter if it's from Sky, VM, ITV or the BBC, nor does it matter if you're watching it on a 50" plasma TV, or live on your PC through one of the streaming services.
You do not need a licence if you only use your TV for watching DVD's, playing games, or only watch catch up services.
*Although a lot of the MP's on that comittee seem (like many politicians) more interested in preening in front of the cameras, and being popular than actually asking any real questions or questions that can be answered.
Like that twit who asked "how many paedophiles work at the BBC" towards the start of the Saville situation, when not only is it a question no company could accurately answer, the BBC had just launched an investigation to try and found out what had happened in the past, and the twit then made it seem it was odd that the DG couldn't answer the question.
It's also theoretically independent of the government (unlike some other state broadcasters), with it's management being at arms length via the Commons Media committee's* oversight of the BBC trust who in turn monitor the BBC to ensure it's run in line with it's charter (which iirc does specify it should be editorially independent of the government), and the BBC tends to be quite critical about the government fairly often, regardless of who is in power (unlike a lot of state broadcasters that will never make any real criticism of their governments).
I got through about 30 seconds of the video right up until he came out with the line "I realised the BBC is a propaganda machine for big corperations" amd saw the caption for a 7/7 conspiracy :/
Personally whilst I don't watch a great deal of stuff on the BBC, I do find it a heck of a lot better than most of the commercial broadcasters whose interest is primarily "will this get the viewers my advertisers want" and "Will this upset X if this programme says their product is rubbish"

You need a TVL if you watch or record any Live TV in the UK.
It doesn't matter if it's from Sky, VM, ITV or the BBC, nor does it matter if you're watching it on a 50" plasma TV, or live on your PC through one of the streaming services.
You do not need a licence if you only use your TV for watching DVD's, playing games, or only watch catch up services.
*Although a lot of the MP's on that comittee seem (like many politicians) more interested in preening in front of the cameras, and being popular than actually asking any real questions or questions that can be answered.
Like that twit who asked "how many paedophiles work at the BBC" towards the start of the Saville situation, when not only is it a question no company could accurately answer, the BBC had just launched an investigation to try and found out what had happened in the past, and the twit then made it seem it was odd that the DG couldn't answer the question.