lol tvlicensing
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The difference is if you had committed a crime and not reported it you would have broken the law, and if they had reasonable suspicion to believe you have they'd knock on your door and caution you and take you to the station for questioning.
LOL at those letters, got a more recent picture for my personal collection of LOL folder? Oh they're ridiculous.
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No but his ~~! civil liberties !~~ are being attacked! Don't you understand? Why should he fix the situation easily and with little fuss when he could instead become more and more anxious due in no small part to his autism and post about it relentlessly on a message board?
YOU MONSTER
When you were at school, and you possibly got bullied did your parents tell you to condone it and happily do what they intimidated you to do? By giving in to it you're giving in to them bullying you.
If the bullying could be stopped by a quick explanation they'd have probably advised you to do that instead of ignoring the bully in the hope they'd go away.
Just be happy you don't live in Sweden. Here you require a TV license (which is more expensive than a UK one) even if you do not use your TV to watch TV at all (Not just live broadcasts). None of this "just have a tv for video games", if you got a TV, you pay license. They also ruled that if you have a PC or smartphone you are also liable to pay license as you can access on demand services similar to BBC Iplayer on them.
So, just say you don't have a TV or that it's not connected to recieve tv signals, and that you just use it to game, and chill out.
So, just say you don't have a TV or that it's not connected to recieve tv signals, and that you just use it to game, and chill out.
For one thing it's not the BBC's decision...
The BBC operates under a Royal Charter as approved by government and under the guidelines enshrined in the charter.
That includes some very strict limits on what it can or cannot do (IE it cannot have more than something like £100 million in debts*).
The terms of the service they provide (IE the well known "educate, inform, entertain), and how they provide the service - for example they have to provide content on a non favoured basis - so they have to make the same offer of content to all the platforms, be it putting the channels on DTT, Sky, Cable, or making the Iplayer available on all the consoles under the same conditions (IIRC the xbox version was held back at one point as MS wanted it in the gold package, the BBC would not have been allowed to agree to that).
And finally, the way it's funded is set by the government.
Strictly speaking the TVL doesn't even go to the BBC, the BBC are empowered and required to collect it (using the same methods the post office did for decades before), but then it goes to the government.
The government then pay the BBC most of that back as part of a pre-agreed amount (increasingly hiving off parts of the TVL for other government projects such as BB, and to pay for the World Service - which used to be paid for by a foreign office grant).
*One of the reasons they've had to basically lease their new studio complex at Salford was because they could not under the terms of the charter put together enough money to build a new one themselves (it's a billion pound+ investment). And it's worth remembering that the BBC lease the Salford facilities next time you read some garbage in the papers about things like "BBC offering staff escorts to train station" or "BBC waste money on faith room" - both were offered/provided by the site management to all staff regardless of if they were BBC, ITV, Sky, or whatnot
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Does one need a TV Licence for watching shows downloaded from torrent sites?
TV Licence website isn't clear.
TV Licence website isn't clear.
Does one need a TV Licence for watching shows downloaded from torrent sites?
TV Licence website isn't clear.
Please write to them and ask.
Does one need a TV Licence for watching shows downloaded from torrent sites?
TV Licence website isn't clear.
Nope because its not live TV. Just like 4OD, iPlayer etc
Nope because its not live TV. Just like 4OD, iPlayer etc
But the source was from a live broadcast (typically), which is what they say matters. Technically how different is it to recordings? Which according to the licensing terms you require a licence to watch.
That brings up the question of how they look at people watching recordings that they didn't make themselves, for example family members recording shows on to dvd for you.
Not that it really matters, the license is a farce anyway, and personally wouldn't pay it whether I watched broadcast TV or not.
yea don't borrow DVD's to anyone without a TV license! it's stealing!
"If you wouldn't do it with your wife don't do it with the DVD!"
Can be the new slogan
as chopper reid would say "harden the **** up"
I happily went for a walk around newcastles west end at 2:30am last night.
as I do quite often when I can't sleep or it's to hot.
people should man up and stop being scared of the dark or walk to the train station in small groups....
TBH rough areas are safer when it's dark and all the teenagers aren't hanging around smoking weed and making trouble the only people I see late at night is people walking home after they have been clubbing some of them look rough as hell but so far no one has said a word to me , sucked there teeth at me or tried to rob me.
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no personal insults or arguing please!
Maybe you like to happily volunteer your personal details to companies who you are not getting any services from all those spam mail people must love you.
I do not require a TV license.
They do not require my personal details so they can invoice me properly for a service I do not use, need or want.
when sky or virgin come to your house asking why you don't have your TV services with them do you give them all your personal details to?
oh wait you don't live in England anyway
Maybe you like to happily volunteer your personal details to companies who you are not getting any services from all those spam mail people must love you.
I do not require a TV license.
They do not require my personal details so they can invoice me properly for a service I do not use, need or want.
when sky or virgin come to your house asking why you don't have your TV services with them do you give them all your personal details to?
oh wait you don't live in England anyway
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I made the simple point that the OP has made at least 20 of the 156 (as then) posts in his own thread but cannot and will not spend 5 minutes taking the time to let the TVL people that he's not a target of theirs.
A business has a duty of care to its staff, particularly if they are working late at night, and thus need to ensure they get home properly, whether thats making sure they get their train because they are traveling a long distance, or a cab home.
Just because the BBC are publicly funded, I don't see how that duty should differ from anywhere else.
If I work to midnight, I expect a cab home.