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Originally Posted by Gary L
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"You need to be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record TV as it's being broadcast.
You need to be covered by a licence if you watch TV online at the same time as it's being broadcast"
They'd have you believe.
what happened to the licence being about equipment that was capable of receiving a broadcast signal?
Just because the BBC choose to broadcast over the internet. I don't see why we should have to extend what the licence is meant to be for.
fair enough if you already have a TV licence, but it's not fair to make people pay for a licence just because they want to put the broadcasts on the internet now.
make it like an adult website, where you have to log in to watch.
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/ |
Most are well aware of the regulations but I was questioning the assumption of the designers of the main BBC news website in their increasing use of live links that people viewing it are already licence holders.
In particular over the world cup period there was a plethora of links on the football pages, to live audio, live video, live text and combination pages with all present which took no account of the non tv licence holder.
The whole iPlayer website now combines live and catch up links on radio and TV.
Link pop up boxes that inquire as to the viewer/listeners age for possible adult orientated content can occasionally be found but no pop up boxes questioning whether the user actually owns a licence are ever seen on the BBC website.
This is of course in line with crass assumption of 100% TV licence ownership by the licence collection agency.