BBC iPlayer Catch-up to Require TV License... closing in

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Hmm, i thought cause i had a TV i had to pay the license, if i knew i was only paying for the couple of shows i do watch on iPlayer, im sure i could do without and just use netflix instead.
 
Glaucus said:
This isn't true, you can have what ever you want hooked up. Courts might just not belive you.
The offense is watching or recording live broadcast, nothing in it about equipment etc.
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Absolutely, but why would you have either connected if you don't use them?
 
If you have devices used to watch LIVE tv, and they are tuned in / working, then you need to pay.

If you have a tv subscription service, you have to pay. you'r getting live tv fed into a device which is tuned in to receiving that signal.

If you have a tv subscription and only use on demand then your an idiot and are paying for a tv subscription without using it and need to look at your life. You should probably just pay the tv license if you do this 'cus your already throwing money away so why not a bit more?

If you DO NOT watch LIVE tv broadcast, on any device, you don't have to pay.

The only way they can determine if you DO watch live tv, is to check devices to see if its plugged into an aerial and tuned in to receive. This requires a warrant to legally enter your home.

There are no special vans that detect your tv. There isn't anything to detect if you watch live tv.

If you buy something in a shop that is capable of getting live tv, they pass your details on and you get a letter from the gov through your letter box.


I spose they could work with ISP's to see if your on iplayer, I'm sure the nsa/whoever will gladly help with this.
 
There are so many ways to watch live TV via apps on most of the streaming boxes, they really have no way to know.
 
Personally I'm more than happy to pay the licence fee, the BBC's output on the whole is a darn sight better than the trash that ITV and other commercial channels put out!
 
As long as this only applies to iPlayer then fine, if it's worded to cover all streaming/catch-up services then that would be retarded.

It'd also be nice, if/when this is implemented, for BBC to do either a cut-price catch-up only subscription or even a 'pay per episode' type setup.

I don't have a TV licence, haven't done so for over a year now and quite happy, even get an amusing letter every 2 weeks which never fails to give me a mid-morning chuckle. I do, very occasionally, watch stuff on iPlayer, which is a bit 'wrong' but was limited to F1, Top Gear, Sherlock and Luther. F1 is gone to another channel now, Top Gear will almost certainly suck with Chris Evans, leaving just Sherlock and Luther, and 3 episodes every other year is not worth the licence fee, not even close.
 
This will make no difference to anyone.

Most people have a licence anyway. Those who don't will just click the "yea I've got a licence now play already" button when they go on iPlayer.
 
LiE said:
Absolutely, but why would you have either connected if you don't use them?
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Radio/music channels

Psypher5 said:
If you have devices used to watch LIVE tv, and they are tuned in / working, then you need to pay.

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Second part of that has nothing to do with it you can even have a subscription and not pay. Again the crime is not linked to any equipment, it's watching or recording live TV.
 
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I literally just cancelled my tv licence. I'm hoping to go without tv totally at my new place. Do not need BBC at all. Not one little bit.
 
I think it's completely fair for access to iPlayer to be restricted to only those with valid TV licenses. Any move to shift the license fee to be included in council tax or otherwise make it a levy paid for by the general population would be completely unfair on those who don't use the BBC's services though. Hope they don't make that move.
 
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