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Originally Posted by Anonymouse
According to TVL, it is.
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Their wording is deliberately ambiguous, however you only need a licence to use receiving equipment for the purpose of receiving. You don't need a licence to use a TV as a monitor for your DVD player, even if the TV is capable of receiving broadcasts. You don't need a licence to use a VCR to watch your old video collection, even if the VCR is capable of receiving broadcasts. And you don't need a licence to use a computer, just because a website exists where you
could, if you wanted to, go and watch broadcast TV.
The moment you use any of the above equipment, whilst attached to mains electricity, to watch broadcast TV,
then you need to hold a valid TV licence in order for your activity to be legal. But not a moment before.
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(Has anyone noticed they've dropped the 'Authority' bit? So they bloody well should, too - they are NOT an authority and never have been, and had no right to call themselves such)
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Well, yes and no. The BBC is a public authority with respect to its licencing functions. It delegates some of those functions to various other organisations. It may not be strictly correct for TVL itself to claim it is an authority, but it is acting on the direct instructions of, and on behalf of, a legal Authority, so the point is purely technical.