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Got sent this via an email the other day .......have look :o

Rip off Britain

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This item was edited on Monday, 23rd June 2008, 17:46

They can try it - the bar stewards.


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Nonsense.




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Nonsense
Absolute bilge indeed.

Let`s look at this logically. The BBC are trying to intoduce a licence fee that will be applicable to everyone that has an internet connection, purely for the fact their iPlayer streams BBC tv programs (after broadcast) and as such should be held under the same rules as your bog-standard TV. This is utter tosh.

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what if you want to watch your old Johnathan Creek DVDs? or your Doctor Who Boxsets (that are still being repeated on the the arse end of the BBC channels) Should you have to pay the license if you don`t have a TV? Of course not, and the same should be said for the iPlayer. The programmes you can get on there (which is VERY good, btw) aren`t streamed live. You can download them to your PC but the files has an unused life of 30 days. if you start watching it, it lasts 7 days. If they aren`t live, you`re not watching the BBC channel, in the same way watching a BBC dvd isn`t.

Not forgetting, if you`ve got a Home PC, a broadband connection of sufficient speed to enjoy the iplayer, you`ve probably got a TV anyway and a healthy enough income to stretch to £10 a month direct debit for the license.

I`d like to see some credible proof that this `rumour` is nothing more than tabloid scaremongering

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This item was edited on Tuesday, 24th June 2008, 06:53

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Trust me look it up,. I did look it up, and you are wrong.

From the TV licensing webstie FAQ.

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What if I only use a TV to watch videos/DVDs/as a monitor for my games console? Do I still need a licence?

You do not need a TV Licence if you only use your TV to watch videos and DVDs or as a monitor for your games console.

However, please notify us in writing that this is the case. One of our Enforcement Officers may visit you to confirm that you do not need a licence.

The license allows you to recieve programs as they are broadcast, so if you record them and play them back later you will need a license of course. But if you only watched movies you purchased or rented and had no aeiral you wouldnt.

There was actually something about the license the other day on one of the BBCi sites but I cant find it now. but it did state that you dont need one for using iPlayer as it is a catchup service and not a live broadcast. Of course that could always change.

This item was edited on Monday, 23rd June 2008, 20:10

Agree with Sashenden.

At work we just got a couple of 42" Plasma TVs which are to be plugged into PCs to display stats and I told the facilities guy he`d still need a tv license, he phoned up TV licensing, and they told him, if they were just going to be used as monitors with a PC, no need for a license.

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There was actually something about the license the other day on one of the BBCi sites but I cant find it now. but it did state that you dont need one for using iPlayer as it is a catchup service and not a live broadcast. Of course that could always change.

It was clarified in the Radio Times this week too.

Anyway, if people are going to get mad about something to do with the internet it should be about the threat to network neutrality - the CEO of Virgin Media said it`s "bollocks", and I`d be surprised if other UK ISPs didn`t feel the same way. Bastards. >:(



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This item was edited on Monday, 23rd June 2008, 20:34

Radio Times, not BBCi. That was where i saw it too.

I remember an interview or a piece by a Times journalist waaaaay back where he queried if the license was legal as every EEC country had to legally offer FREE news coverage to their nation and he said that several times they had visited his house and he told them flat to take him to court (they never did) and he (again from memory) really seemed to want to put his case to the courts

This item was edited on Monday, 23rd June 2008, 21:46

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Anyway, if people are going to get mad about something to do with the internet it should be about the threat to network neutrality - the CEO of Virgin Media said it`s "bollocks", and I`d be surprised if other UK ISPs didn`t feel the same way.

Doesn`t surprise me, they`re a bunch of cocks. Another humorous piece on NN can be found here. Ironically it streams like crap on my Virgin connection ;)