TV licence court summons

Never had time for watching tv whilst at uni and didn't even bother bringing one with me and I still received those letters. My flatmates and I ignored them.
 
1 it's a threat not a summons a summons would mean they actually had evidence.

Tv licensing letters are more correctly known as "something to set on fire to light a gas oven when the clicker is broken"
 
I haven't paid it for 8 years and their monthly threat-o-grams addressed to "The Legal Occupier" go straight in the bin unopened.

Never mind that it's just £xx.xx a month, I need it more than Clackson. :)
 
Leprechaun312 said:
I believe I read somewhere that the BBC are in breach of their charter for getting funds from the EU and so us paying for a TV licence is treason? Is this true .
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Yes it's totally true, mad dave down the dog and dumpling told me so the other week, apparently his friend had an uncle who had a girlfriend who knew someone who got beheaded by the Queen in the Tower of London for buying a TVL.

*puts head in hands and weeps for the state of the country*

No it's not true, the the "funds" were from memory for research the BBC, as part of the group that helps test and research broadcasting technology for the whole of the EU got paid for doing the testing (it would be mildly problematic if say a new broadcasting standard came in and it killed off an existing service because it hadn't been tested, or didn't work in one country).
This is something the BBC has been doing for decades before we even had an EU, as part of it's Royal charter actually calls for it to do such work to improve broadcasting. Pretty much every TV and broadcaster in the world uses some technology that has it's roots in what the BBC has done, or assisted in the development of (IIRC the BBC were testing HD transmissions in the early 2000's before there were any HD sets available to consumers, they issued testers in the Crystal palace region a computer dongle or something to let them cheaply test how various options worked).



If your house watched live TV regardless of if it's on a TV, PC, or whatever you need a TVL legally.
If you only watch catch up, DVD's etc you don't.
 
It's treason. The BBC will be filming a new show, "Off With Their Heads" next summer and is looking for suitable candidates.
 
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