This thread shows if anything that if you shorten it to that you would be being disingenuous. This thread has shown its hit and miss if that works and people like MissChief are pretending its simple when its not always. Harassment is not saved just for people who don't buy a license but also don't notify them.This whole thread can be shorterned to this back in 2015 btw
I told them I don't need one as I realised I never watch live TV, don't really watch much iplayer stuff. Stuff can be acquired elsewhere.. like my sister! she has a license so we watch Bake Off there. oh wait, not live, not bbc, maybe she can cancel too! but they won't as family etc.
I've canceled mine about 2 years ago, not had a peep from them since. If I really wanted to I would buy a license for the year, maybe if I wanted to watch Planet Earth III etc but I'm not in a rush.
But it is simple. People will spend twenty minutes setting up a VPN to get YouTube premium from Argentina or a couple of minutes once a week to update your ad blocker to watch YT without ads but won't take 5 minutes to tell TV Licensing they don't need a licence once every year or even once every two years.
95% goes on content and content delivery (2020/21) the BBC publishes reasonably detailed summaries of it’s expenditure and how it delivers on it’s goals etc but then you must be well aware of that as you have of course arrived at your position on the future of the BBC based on rational examination of the facts?
I don't need the BBC. The only thing I would watch on the BBC is Doctor Who, and that's, with rare exception, a steaming pile of **** now too, and it would be significantly cheaper just to buy the DVD/Blu-ray box set to watch that (second hand as it's not worth full price). I don't listen to BBC radio either and I don't need BBC news. There again I don't pay for the TV licence and the only reason this house has a licence is someone else here watches the odd bit on there. If/when they aren't here anymore the BBC can die the death it deserves as far as I'm concerned.
That’s fine but at least make sure your decision is based on a sensible balanced evaluation of all the available facts. I would hate to think that the population of the uk would do something monumentally stupid based on emotive arguments, abuse of data and some wired notion of ‘sticking it to the man’……. I wander is there any correlation between Brexit support and anti BBC sentiment?
As has been shown in this thread time and time again its not that simple and often doesn't work. Lots of people fill the form out and it either doesn't work or doesn't last 2 years or worse it increases harassment. The form is not a reliable solution or as simple as you pretend it is.
So the choice is keep binning letters that arrive regularly and the occasional visit, or go online and tell them you don't need a licence. I know some say they're 'harassed' after doing so but the vast majority aren't. You may disagree with the rules and law as it stands but you still have to abide by it.
So it’s the price hike you disagree with and for this reason alone you think the entire BBC should be binned, thank you for clarifying your well thought out and researched position.
No its not. I filled out the form and the response from them was to increase the visits at its peak to weekly as well as put threating hand written letters though the door they also video record though your windows to try to gather evidence. Plenty of other people have reported they filled out the form and it didn't stop the letters or visits. My problem is you are pretending its a simple fix and its a simple choice of just filling out the form. Well its hit and miss if that works so its not a simple fix. You say the majority aren't but more people have said the form didn't work in the past pages then said it did work.
Why should he have to? Tell them to get ******, it's a lot simpler
